“There Is A Formula To Your Despair” starts with a simple guitar strum and quickly opens up to several strings, percussion, then vocals, all in quick succession. It builds into a very powerful, strong, its strength is in the living sound once again and it pulls you in deeper. You may be getting sucked to your own death, but man what a ride!
This is a very powerful album, one of the best I’ve heard this year. Even if you don’t particularly care for the Warlocks’ style of music, you’re compelled to admire their musicianship. But you’ve got to be in a receptive mood for this to happen. You’ve got to lower your force shields.
You know how sometimes you go around with your brain compartmented? If something happens that day and it doesn’t fit into one of these compartments you've created, then it’s roughly pushed aside, never to be seen again. Well, don’t let that happen with this album. Open your mind. What you give up as you’re listening to this music, you’ll get back tenfold.
No matter what plane you’re on as you begin to listen to The Mirror Explodes, you can rest assured you’ll be on a higher one as you fade into the last notes of “Static Eyes.” You'll become the music, that living being of sound. You'll feel the music rushing through your veins. You are racing through the veins of a greater being: The Sound.
You’ve reached nirvana.
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