I got to proselytize: a blatant musical plug

[Reverend Joe]

Okay, I hate to be an advertiser, but I must do this with the utmost of sincerity, because I am pretty sure these guys are the best thing since the Doors, the Stooges and/or blotter acid.

The Black Angels.

The reason I am posting this is their second record. When I heard their first full-length record in 2007, I will admit I was disappointed; they were not all they I had hoped for or expected. But their second album, Directions to See a Ghost, blew me clean out of the water: it was all I had hoped for in their first album and then some. It's like someone took the Native American Psych Rock of the Doors, the unrelenting Hard Rock of the Stooges, and the thundering Stoner Rock of Black Sabbath and stuck it all in a vicious blender; and then again, it's not quite like anything else you have ever heard. In short, their second album is beautiful.

Please, for your own good, give them a spin and see how you like it.