Load Records
2006
Hidden City Of Taurmond
About This Album
Lightning Bolt continue on happily, but bassist Brian Gibson's side project, Wizardzz, gives him a chance to show a different -- slightly -- take on things, with him switching to drums. Admittedly it would be wondrous to hear a total solo album of him presumably destroying a drum kit with precision, but this is a duo, and Wizardzz's combination of Gibson and Rich Porter's keyboards is as strikingly fun and overwhelming at its best as is Gibson's more well-known group. "Sailship" feels like it should be either a video game fanfare or the music over the opening credits to some lost '80s cop drama -- very much compliments either way -- with the fat tone of Porter's work suggesting the bloated bizarreness of the late '70s beaten into sleek shape, with the later "Chasing Our Shadows" being an equally strong complement. Porter elsewhere embraces playing that's simultaneously classic rock and devolved techno -- check out the central riff to "Glimpse of the Hidden City" for a perfect example -- and at other points goes for full-on spaced-out Laserium rock that's downright genius in its over the top but never not enjoyable combinations.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10 and 13)

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