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Montreal Mirror, CD Review >>
Over a quarter-century that saw the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of a worrying new Russia under Putin, Muscovites Auktyon have built themselves up as a cult band at home and abroad with an approach that’s thuggish and theatrical, populist and peculiar. Following the juggernaut thunderfunk of opener “Profukal,” the band’s first album in a dozen years slips into unsettling dirges, freakish folk-rockers and bemusing art jams—like much East Bloc prog rock, there are echoes here of Quebec’s own odder entries of the ’70s. Thickening the plot are assists from jam-band icon John Medeski, gritty guitarist Marc Ribot and brass master Frank London.
7/10
By RUPERT BOTTENBERG 04/02/08 >> go there
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