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Though there is nothing specifically wrong with anything on this, the ninth album from Dave Wyndorf and his hired guns, no song seems to rise above the others (save one) and none is as memorable as the best from their previous albums. There are cool parts here and there over the album, such as the catchy chromatic riff in the atmospheric introduction of "I Live Behind", and the crash-crash dun-dun-dun-dun-dun rhythm in "The Clouds" is cool and punchy, though with little variation in a track in excess of nine minutes it's too much. The album isn't a one-dimensional affair either, ranging from the sitar-accented title song, the mellow cover of Donovan song "Three Kingfishers", the crotchety "Stay Tuned," and the "Blaze Of Glory" with Latin percussion "Duke Of Supernature," to the headbanging double time rocking "Mindless One" and "End Of Time." Unfortunately there was only one song on the album I didn't feel I'd heard before, the demented ho-down "Hallelujah"****; Wyndorf yelps and cackles over a combination of Jack White and Kid Rock covering "Cotton Eye Joe," and fills the traditional celebratory expression with gleeful menace.
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