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Scissorgun

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Just the fact that it's 2002 and we have a new Crispy Ambulance album is incredible enough. Even more amazing is how great this album is. It's been said before but here C.A. seem to pick up right where they left off - the sound is fresh and new yet familiar at the same time. The songs themselves are among the strongest C.A's ever come up with - "Re-Animator" and "Heatwave" in particular. I just hope there's more where this came from!
As a sidenote, if you don't have "the plateau phase", get that first. It is a masterpiece.

Thank GOD they're back, but it's still kind of sad to see how many people have never heard of them. I hope this album changes that situation. This has certainly been a long time coming. Also wonderful to see the Thanks to James Nice mentioned on the cd. All of these tracks pick right up where Crispy Ambulance left off in the mid eighties. From the opening welcome of "Step up" to the industrial throb (interwoven with a tasty little melody) called "Even in Heaven the Angels Carry Savage Weapons" and subsequently finishing up with the feedback-tweaked "Soundblock". This is what's missing in today's "music" and it's SO wonderful to hear the boys slipping and sliding again. Heartfelt thanks to the Ambulance for this top-notch sonic rescue. 2 words of advice to you...BUY THIS!!!!

100% correct. how can they make 'now' sound so authentically like 'then'? this album blows my mind.

a timeless masterwork lost in today's sewerbowl.

Well, they're back. And if you were to say it's as if they never left, you'd be wrong. The awesome, sequencer-driven opener "Step Up!" (the band's own response to THE PLATEAU PHASE's opener "Are You Ready?") notwithstanding, SCISSORGUN is a much more guitar-oriented work than any of their 80s material on Factory. "Loupgarou" rocks as ferociously as any current band you'd care to namecheck, and has a killer hook besides (although I suppose it's worth mentioning that Alan Hempsall's vocals on this particular track bear an uncanny resemblance to Huey Lewis of all people, albeit a particularly snide Huey indeed). "Parallax" could well have been released as a single, although a slightly skewed one. Graham Massey's production is as effective overall as was Chris Nagle's for TPP, with bright and crunchy guitars and up-front bass/drums. To be sure, some of it drags a bit - - "Re-Animator," and "Heatwave," for example, go on a bit too long and one therefore gets the feeling that longer is better for these guys - - but Crispy Ambulance was, and is, always welcome on my player.The Plateau Phase