The Dream Syndicate's wide-ranging new album has something for everyone, in the best way. Read erdanton's review of 'Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions':
Of all the ’80s indie-underground bands that have reunited in the 2000s—and there have been plenty, including Dinosaur Jr., Pixies and The Replacements, to name a few—The Dream Syndicate’s 2012 resurrection has been among the least heralded, and the most rewarding.
All these years later, there’s no mistaking the Velvet Underground influence of “Hard to Say Goodbye,” where Wynn’s lyrics have a laconic Lou Reed cadence, though the musical accompaniment has a lusher feel, with swirls of woozy guitar. Later, “Lesson Number One” is a hard-charging rocker that shows all the benefits of teaming again with producer John Agnello . Full of bracing guitars and a driving beat, the song folds in off-kilter violin licks without batting an eye.
The Dream Syndicate’s willingness to roam freely through different sounds has always been of the band’s strongest assets, outweighed only by their ability to make the transitions seem effortless. If the results have tended over the years to confound listeners who wanted more stuff like the previous stuff, mayberepresents a kind of truce: The band’s various approaches to these 10 songs mean there’s something here for any Dream Syndicate fan.
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