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Artist Indian Jewelry

Houston’s Indian Jewelry sees your psychedelic revival and raises you a whole bunch of shape-shifting drones, a dash of industrial clangor, and the heavily processed, otherworldly vocals of its co-ed mind-melders. Incredibly difficult to pin down, there’s a good deal of melody in Indian Jewelry’s sound; you just have to wade through a lot of muck to find it. As 2010’s Totaled—newly re-issued by We Are Free records—attests, Indian Jewelry hasn’t yet tired of being so musically coy, but the band isn’t exactly averse to just putting its catchiness out front either. Opener “Oceans” peels back some of the tribal weirdness and pulsing synths—though it quickly proves to be the exception, not the rule.  

Updated 12/20/2010

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