SMOG - Red Apple Falls LP new age Man or Astro-Man

Man or Astro-Man

This album clearly puts Sick Thoughts on top of the punk heap

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“Hammer” invokes that insidious meat-and-three-veg rock riff crusty old rockers will tell you has been sacrificed to the gods of insipid rock

mangled Phil-Spector-via-Jesus-&-Mary-Chain melodies

SMOG - Red Apple Falls LP new age Man or Astro-ManWhy Smog is so important in the progression of music today. A sad, straight forward, black humoured collection of Bill Callahan's greatest songs. They are obscure, ethereal, thorny, snakelike in their charm, and never cliche. Bill Callahan has more in common with musicians like Gordon Lightfoot, Gary Neuman, and David Bowie. Though he may not sound like them, he resonates their willingness to go beyond. Callahan is a poet.