In De Goot
2007
Archetypes And Repetition
About This Album
Deepfield's ambitious debut, Archetypes and Repetition, is the proverbial double-edged sword with its pluses held back at times by the very things that should move the quartet forward. Skidd Mills and Paul Ebersold certainly bring their reputation to the table but, like Phil Spector, their well-known "Wall of Sound" can also cloud a band's abilities. "Get It," as performed on this disc, sounds just like "44 Teeth," when the two songs are completely different. It drops in so quickly that non-fans won't be able to tell the difference between the two. Bob Ezrin knew how to pull those riffs out and let them rattle the speakers, but here the interesting guitar work of J. King and singer Baxter Teal III might as well be an outtake from Mills and Ebersold's work on Saliva's Survival of the Sickest. It is hard to distinguish the instruments with the quagmire of effects glossed over each title, a formula aimed at one audience, not many. Remember when there was the same exact guitar solo on a song on the New York Dolls' 1973 debut and a song on Grand Funk's We're an American Band, also from 1973? Todd Rundgren was the producer on both, but at least all he did was clone a guitar sound/solo, not an entire group.
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,6,7,8,9,10 and 11)

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