We Live Now * by Dora Flood (CD, Feb-2007, Elephant Stone Records)like new promo

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Album Features
UPC: 880481101621
Artist: Dora Flood
Format: CD
Release Year: 2007
Record Label: Elephant Stone Records
Genre: Rock & Pop

Track Listing
1. Phoenix Rising
2. Everywhere We Go
3. Feels Like Yesterday
4. Revelation Blues
5. Atlantis
6. Humble High
7. Daydream
8. Invisible Throne
9. Faith and Deviation
10. Light

Details
Playing Time: 42 min.
Producer: Michael Padilla
Distributor: Redeye Music Distribution
Recording Type: Studio
Recording Mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Michael Padilla (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion); Sean Degaetano (drums, percussion).Audio Mixer: Michael Padilla.Recording information: Soundport Recording Studio, Berkely, CA (2006).Dora Flood's latest album of psyched-out fuzz is, indeed, just that -- and there's no sin in doing it very well. Taking the tack that one can be massively heavy but can still find the pop in it all -- something that Josh Homme has long since demonstrated is an entirely feasible approach -- Dora Flood's own long career hasn't been as celebrated but deserves an ear; We Live Now is a good entry for the curious. (It also doesn't hurt that they know to call the first song on the album "Phoenix Rising," and that they make it sound like that, a slow epic rise of a song with a killer guitar solo that's pure skybound-from-the-desert majesty.) If Dora Flood have a reliable standby it's soothing but stoned harmonies mixed with exultant guitar, something that inevitably calls to mind everything from the Association and late-'60s Byrds to proto-metal like Steppenwolf. Classic tripping out is unsurprisingly in evidence, thus the blend of light falsetto and rising and falling keyboards on "Atlantis," spiked with a total guitar snarl on the chorus. Even the more straight-up pop moments aren't really that; a song like "Everywhere We Go" keeps things on a calmer and generally brisker tip (not quite motorik but not too far removed), but the layered arrangement, massed vocals, and spiraling, spindly solos and more make for a thick end result. No question that Dora Flood are out to revisit a past that never quite was rather than projecting where things might go next, but with this as a given, We Live Now is a pure treat, full stop. ~ Ned Raggett

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