Surgery
Mute, 2005
It's hard to believe The Warlocks was still available as a rock 'n' roll band name. This in itself proves just how blessed they are, besides their diabolical fashion sense and bum-rushed publicity push. When you're a band with the rights to the name The Warlocks, there is no wasting time. The Warlocks MUST rock my psyche or get out of my mind. And they deliver.
Bring on the comparisons: The Walkmen's sense of melody, the Jesus and Mary Chain for the fifties pop dragged over gravel into the dark new century, and Sonic Youth for outrageous guitar swarms and feasts. Mash the first track, "Come Save Us," with the prom scene climax of Back to the Future and you've got the idea. If the fifties rocked this hard, we'd be dead now.
Lee Henderson
August 30, 2005
