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In case its unique brand of sonic assault and battery didn't leave you lying dead on the floor with your spleen poking halfway out your gaping mouth the first time around, Lightning Bolt is back for a second strafing run on your sense of mental and musical balance. Think you're up for it? Well, maybe you are, but only if you leave your volume knob down between two and three. It's hard to believe that all this noise is made by only a guitarist and a drummer, and it's sometimes even harder to believe that no electronic manipulation is involved. But however it is that they create this glorious ruckus, it's a sound that attracts at least as strongly as it repels, and there are a few tracks (let's not call them "songs," thank you) on Wonderful Rainbow that come perilously close to actually having hooks. The brilliant "Dracula Mountain," for example, with its heavily processed and thoroughly indecipherable vocals, or the equally baffling and wonderful "Assassins," both of which pummel and dance in equal measure. In fact, the only real misstep here is "Duel in the Deep," which clocks in at an eventually tedious six minutes. At its best, though, this album is like having a beautiful girl hit you repeatedly over the head with a baseball bat. Imagine all the best aspects of Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, the Ruins, Slayer, and Ornette Coleman all thrown into a blender together. Then imagine them on speed. This one's a keeper. ~ Rick AndersonUncut (6/03, p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...The music is purposeful and powerful, never more so than on the terrible grandeur of the climactic '30,000 Monkies'..." The Wire (01/04, p.38) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year [2003]" The Wire (4/03, pp.56-7) - "...WONDERFUL RAINBOW loses nothing of the duo's spontaneous wallop. They lock into their interminable repetitions even as they turn the music on a dime with such nimble ferocity, and bring it down in an unceasing torrent of amplified fire..." Mojo (Publisher) (5/03, p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This is flat-out, high energy music, stripped to meaty bones....Wonderful stuff for those who like their rock to move beyond the known..." Mojo (Publisher) (p.50) - Ranked #17 in Mojo's "The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time" - "Breakthrough tumult from elemental experimental duo: riffs, noise, chaos."
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow Album Track Listing
Trk
Song
Price
1
Hello Morning
$0.99
2
Assassins
$0.99
3
Dracula Mountain
$0.99
4
2 Towers
$0.99
5
On Fire
$0.99
6
Crown of Storms
$0.99
7
Longstockings
$0.99
8
Wonderful Rainbow
$0.99
9
30,000 Monkies
$0.99
10
Duel In the Deep
$0.99
Wonderful Rainbow Music Review
Customer Wonderful Rainbow Reviews
Average Rating: (5 out of 5 stars)
A wonderfull rainbow indeed! It doesn't take more then 2 highly creative souls to give rock the long needed slap in the face. That their high power drive is loosly based on the 2 Japanese power addicts of Ruins who in their turn take in the complete western rock catalogue and spit it out at trice the speed is almost funny if it wouldn't be for the necessary down to earth approach of the bolts. If you haven't got this in yr recordcollection already then they should actually force you to buy this. A classic, just as Ride the Skies. And if you have any doubts about the generated power on these slabs of plastic then by all means look for the DVD live report Power of Salad... Highly addictive indeed!!! Submitted by a reviewer (Antwerp, Begium) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
awsome! and has 10 tracks! Awsome album! However i wanted to mention that the album has ten tracks, not eight, the FIRST song is actually "hello morning" and then scratch "dissent" which is not a song on this album and add in "Wonderful Rainbow" and "3000 Monkies" in its place. Submitted by Jason (Seattle, WA, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
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