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Having recorded a fistful of critically
acclaimed, and increasingly successful, albums with neo-psychedelic
pioneers Comets On Fire, frontman Ethan Miller lit out
for fresh musical territories, located somewhere between
the Santa Cruz, CA-based band’s familiar sonic maelstrom
and a more organic, melodic, groove-oriented rock that
hearkened back to his halcyon daze growing up on California’s “Lost
Coast” (Humboldt County), home of lumberjacks, college
students, unreconstructed hippies, and off-the-grid botanists.
"Magnificent Fiend" is the second album from Howlin Rain
and the first to be issued under a joint agreement between
multi-platinum record producer Rick Rubin’s American
label and San Francisco-based indie Birdman Records. By
turns pummeling and pastoral, Magnificent Fiend oscillates
between roaring, all-stops-out, Hammond organ-driven tracks
and delicate electric piano passages, topped by harmonized,
often dissonant guitar lines.
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