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• Artist: The Usa Is A Monster
• Album: Sunset At The End Of The Industrial Age
• Label: Load
• Year of Release: 2006
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• Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-09-18

The title track to this fifth USA is a Monster release is a 13 or so minute rush of white noise that slowly melts into a vicious boogie worthy of Ted Nugent or Mark Farner. Always willing and, in fact, aiming, to jar the listener into new realities, the duo is not above using the 40 seconds on "Too Many Moves" to both make a plea for place and quote Frank Zappa. "How We Are Livin' (Its not the Scripture, it's the Mass) manages to be a moving tribute to the frailties of age while sounding like Rush fronted by Flo & Eddie. Always topical and referencing Native American myth, they address those obsessions here on the amazing "Okeepa Ceremony" and "The Spirit of Revenge", as well as on the spastic "It's a beautiful Thing (I like my oranges peeled for me). The USA is a Monster, with Sunset at the end of the industrial age, is both rocking in a way a Black Oak Arkansas fan could dig, and challenging in a surreal, poetic careening take on the blues that Beefheart fans will kneel down for a stunned listen too.

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