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This album induces trances; soothing, floating, fuzzy trances. My dog's favorite nap spot is under my desk, right next to the computer's subwoofer, so it's easy to smoak which albums she enjoys. Her coma was as intense as mine. So I'll state my only gripe up front: It's too short. This is, of course, really just a back-handed compliment. Old Million Eye is the solo gig of Brian Lucas of Father Beard and Mirza fame and this self-titled disc finds him mining 36 minutes of endless repetition, Spacemen 3-style. All cuts here are relatively short; the longest just over the five minute mark. The instrumentation is simple: spiny psych guitar, deep-throb bass, and Mr. Lucas's beautifully detatched whispers and moans. The feel is, fittingly, similar to Father Beard's fever visions but Old Million Eye is far more direct. The album is consistent in tone, allowing that haze to settle quite thickly on your brain, but there are certainly specific highlights when your euphoria is controlled enough to be conscious of them. Opener "Onlooker" sounds as if it could've been an early 70's hit if only the DJs had smoked a little more pot; the most obviously psych-inflected "Flight of the Firstborn;" the confident and delibrate guitar work of "Here or There;" the gorgeous and uneasy drone of "Unknown Joys;" and, most importantly, the surprisingly tight and interlocked "It's A Decline." With any luck, this song will be featured in the anodyne love scene of my first film. The album is wonderful and wonderfully difficult to write about, being more about the state of mind it puts you in than the admittedly fantastic musical qualities. One more lulling album in the recent outpouring of Brian Lucas-related sedatives.

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