“Poison Apple” scares me… but only because it’s not all that frightening, coming from a group who I’ve rightly come to expect horrifyingly demented, hallucinogen-drenched murder ballads from. That’s horrifyingly demented, not horribly dumbed down.
Maybe I’m being harsh — after all, this is just the single. Still, I can’t help but fear that my favorite psuedo-cultist homocidal psychedelic revivalists are going to become just another dark psych outfit. Then again, maybe if that happens, I’ll no longer have to pay upwards of $200 for an original pressing of Blood Lust… Actually, who am I kidding? All 1,100 copies of this 7-inch have already sold out.
Here’s hoping that Mind Control, due April 15 but already available for pre-order, lives up to the press release’s promise of “a concept album with a theme that makes the acts and intentions of the likes of Charles Manson and Jim Jones seem like petty crimes.” We shall see.
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