The Brian Jonestown Massacre is one of the longest serving bands that mediates between transfigured sixties psychedelia and violent shoegazing. Groups like the Wooden Shjips or the Black Angels would be unthinkable without the preparatory work of BJM. Founded by Anton Newcombe at the beginning of the nineties in San Francisco and now based in Berlin, the band is now releasing their 15th album. On the last records Newcombe and Co. tended more and more towards electronic trance, interspersed with oriental sounds and grooves.
Anton Newcombe, the frontman of Brian Jonestown Massacre, has never been at a loss for full-bodied sayings. Also with the titling of the new TBJM album, which was recorded in Berlin, the trailblazer of Neopsychedelic Rock is not very reserved. Nevertheless "Revelation" did not become the hoped for revelation despite all advance praise, even if the opener "Vad Hände Med Dem?", sung in Swedish, sounds very lively through the speakers.
