Last November’s election brought a lot of people down, and subsequent events have done nothing to quell the dismay. Chris Forsyth was amongst those who felt a disturbance in the force, and the music on this record reflects what he sensed. His earlier Solar Motel Band recordings have expressed the explosive ecstasy of a twin guitarists urging each other higher and higher, as though they were in a contest to see whose wings would melt first in the rising heat. The last record, The Rarity of Experience, augmented incendiary chemistry with the rigor of fairly elaborate recording strategies.  

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