ARTIST: Monster Magnet
TITLE: Milking The Stars: A Re-Imagining Of Last Patrol
LABEL: Napalm
GENRE: Rock
SOURCE: CD
BITRATE: 254kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 14min total
RELEASE DATE: 2014-11-17
RIP DATE: 2014-12-07
Track List:
1. Let The Circus Burn 7:25
2. Mindless Ones '68 5:22
3. No Paradise For Me 5:34
4. End Of Time (B-3) 6:36
5. Milking The Stars 7:19
6. Hallelujah (Fuzz And Swamp) 5:01
7. I Live Behind The Clouds 4:35
(Roughed Up And Slightly
Spaced)
8. Goliath Returns 3:30
9. Stay Tuned (Even Sadder) 6:01
10.The Duke (Full On Drums 'N 5:25
Wah)
11.Last Patrol (Live) 11:14
12.Three Kingfishers (Live) 6:41
Rock 'n' Roll in its strongest propagation - loud & flashy Psychedelic Rock.
Right at the raging psychedelic maze is frontman Dave Wyndorf. A dazzling figure
of light and leading figure in personal union. On MILKING THE STARS: A
RE-IMAGINING OF LAST PATROL listeners will rediscover inspirations indebted to
mainly hallucinogenic chemicals. The two new songs cheered from the hip are
going to blow out the neighborhood?s window frames! As the press once wrote so
aptly: "Nobody knows where the hell this goddamned, infernal noise is coming
from." Recording information: Studio 13 (03/2014). Milking the Stars: A
Re-Imagining of Last Patrol offers up an alternate universe version of the
group's tenth studio album that dials up its psychedelic tendencies
considerably, resulting in something that has more in common with early Pink
Floyd (opener "Let the Circus Burn" owes more than a cursory nod to "Careful
with That Axe, Eugene") than it does the swampy groove/stoner metal that's come
to define Monster Magnet over the years. After finishing the final mixes for
2013's Last Patrol, frontman Dave Wyndorf asked himself "What if these songs
were recorded in 1968?" and began remixing, re-recording, and laying down
entirely new cuts. The resulting 12-track set offers up six reworked songs from
Last Patrol, four brand new tracks, and two live cuts (considerably extended
versions of "Last Patrol" and the band's trippy cover of Donovan's "Three
Kingfishers"), the latter of which were captured live at the AB Club in Belgium.
Monster Magnet fans, especially those who prefer the band's spacier moments,
will revel in the aptly bracketed re-recordings of ("Hallelujah [Fuzz and
Swamp]," "Duke [Full-on Drums 'N Wah]," "I Live Behind the Clouds [Roughed Up
and Slightly Spaced]," and "Stay Tuned [Even Sadder]," all of which would be
standouts even without knowledge of their previous iterations). As far as fan
fiction goes, Milking the Stars makes good on its promise and delivers a
parallel (and reliably skewed) view of its source material, and the fact that
the fan in question is the project's creator, just makes it weirder.