A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist The Black Angels

  • Briana Purser

The Black Angels’ breakout debut, Passover, was a feverish hallucination of Velvet-y drone and ’Nam-era paranoia, inspiring plenty of other bands to set their Wayback Machines for the seedy side of the ’60s. That long, strange trip continues with 2008's Directions To See A Ghost, another batch of haunting “hypno-drone”—a righteous fuzz of echoing vocals, effects-laden guitars, and doom-saying drums—that, while still short of revolutionary, should win even more converts to the cause. 

Updated 10/20/2009

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