Magnetic Drugs is a very tightly constructed collection of tracks which is absorbing from start to finish. The record starts off intensely with a seriously focus swirl of noise called "the Overt Statuette," easily the most cacophonous thing that the Sunburned Hand crowd has laid down to date.
While some complain about the band's small print runs (this disc came from limited and numbered edition of 250 copies), as of this writing it was still available from online retailers Eclipse Records and Father Yod. If you have any interest in free, improvised music, take advantage of this availability while you still can. The Sunburned Hand of the Man have carved a significant and well-deserved niche for themselves within the free-music underground. Some naysayers claim that the band is more hype than substance—an examination of their released output will demonstrate that such talk is misguided and that they deserve all of they praise that they've been given. Magnetic Drugs is probably the album that grew on me. It's the most focused of the three that I own, and is the best for the introduction to the band. Now that the Uncut magazine has discovered them it will be very hard for you not to stumble upon them. Hope their music won't change in the years to come, they really are an exciting band as you are about to discover.
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And here's their tour page: http://www.ecstaticpeace.com/sunmark.html
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