BLACK ANGELS, THE – DIRECTIONS TO SEE A GHOST

The Black Angels’ classic sophomore album. Full color printed insert with liner notes. “The Black Angels bring the aura of mid-1966-the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams, the acid-prayer stomp of Austin avatars the 13th Floor Elevators-everywhere they go, including the levitations on their second album, Directions To See A Ghost. Mid-Eighties echoes of Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain also roll through the scoured-guitar sustain and Alex Maas rocker-monk incantations. But he knows what time it is. You say the Beatles stopped the war,” Maas sings in Never/Ever. They mightve helped to find a cure/But its still not over. Even so, this medicine works wonders.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone