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"Syncopation
is AKA Los Cincos, from L.A. Why they're suddenly in semi-disguise,
even as they reach musical maturity, I don't get, but...yeah, well,
like the Holy Rollers from Sweden, they're also 20 somethings, and
even seem kinda innocent or something, but from Southern California,
they probably don't even notice how deep is their irony and not
clean. They have some other stuff on Sympathy, some of it you
might like, but here they finally sound fully loose and in command
of their own tongue. The opener is as close to the Voidoids (or Slint)
as Syd Barrett (or Can), and it's a ROCK approach that works
for a change. They do a Kraut-dub-noise trip that stays raw and funky
instead of lad-coat-pickled like, for instance, the Chicago space-rock
stuff. "A Very Gory Tale" even attempts a rude-boy free-fiddle
showdown, and makes it! The other twenty minutes of the disc belongs
to Gogogoairheart, from San Diego..."
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