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Product Description

Mugstar s third album (and second on Important Records)
maintains the power and heaviness of the sonic assaults
laid out in their previous releases while extending musical
maneuvers and textures into new territories.
Sunburnt Impedance Machine moves through driving
riff passages with soaring guitars and a voice recalling
touches of early Floyd before locking into a repetitive
keyboard and drum driven outro. Serra is an extended
voyage through a shimmering Krautrock landscape,
with continuous expectant grooves that call to mind
a turbo-charged Neu! combined with heavy waves of
churning minimalist synth à la Glass or Reich. Clinic s
Jonathan Hartley guests here, adding distant bursts of
haunting clarinet skronk to induce flashes of Nik Turner or
Beefheart. Radar King launches with mesmeric drums
and bass while guitars weave and build to near climax
before descending to an eerie space a noise fest Sonic
Youth would revel in! And finally, Beyond The Sun
closes in a more reflective mood, with incessant rhythms
punctuated by arpeggiated synths and distant vocals that
evoke a feeling of pastoral psychedelia.
Take the list of band names mentioned above; add a few
others along the lines of Bardo Pond, Oneida, Circle,
and Kinski; wind the intensity and volume levels up to
blistering; and you ll be entering Mugstar s universe.

Review

Mugstar are the sound of 10,000 exploding suns,
pulsing with repetitive beauty and pounding like a
supersonic mantra. --Music Is Amazing

A repetitive chug, quite Hawkwind-like with a side of
Oneida, courtesy of the chirping organ hits that keep
things moving ... the guitar riff is beefy and the prog-rock
breaks with organ emphasis feel pretty good. --Dust