Aufheben
Brian
Jonestown Massacre
A Records.
It’s to the credit
of Anton Newcombe’s fleeting genius that every wildly divergent Brian Jonestown
Massacre record has been worthy of at least some consideration. Rebounding off
of 2010’s Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?, in which signs of life were increasingly
tough to find or take comfort in, Aufheben has the renewed energy of a band’s
second era. Like The Cure’s The Head On the Door or Mogwai’s Happy Songs For
Happy People, Brian Jonestown Massacre’s twelfth full-length officially
subverts the band’s old reputation by consolidating influences Newcombe once
wore on-sleeve and instating them as smooth gears of the BJM Sound 2.0. Judged
on the merits of “Blue Order New Monday”, an unsurprising but bold entry into
new wave’s dance-y corridors, and “Face Down On the Moon”, a flute-leading
instrumental replete with eastern accoutrements, Aufheben makes virtually no
sense. But taken as a mind-expanding whole, Brian Jonestown Massacre’s latest ushers a journey as deliberately narcotic and bewildering as anything
they’ve done before, stepping confidently into a mystical rebirth.
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