★★★★★
One would have to be living in a cave not to know that trumpeter Miles Davis' electric music has become a bit of a cause célèbre amongst forward-thinking jazz artists. Love it or hate it, Davis' radical experiments with funk, acid rock, and Stockhausen-inspired sound painting has quickly gone from much-maligned to iconic over the past decade, with tribute recordings pouring in from all quarters...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2012-11-17
★★★★★
Few rock bands combine familiarity and surprise with the aplomb of legendary Japanese psych-freaks Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO (hereafter known as AMT, but seriously, what an insanely fabulous name). Nearly all their album titles and artwork reference key recordings or bands in rock/metal/psych history -- Absolutely Freak Out (Zap Your Mind!...
- dustedmagazine.com
2012-09-27
★★★★★
It feels like mere months-- if not weeks-- since we've last heard from Makoto Kawabata and his psych-rock juggernaut Acid Mothers Temple, and yet Have You Ever Seen the Other Side of the Sky? also qualifies as something of a comeback. The album marks the return of the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ensemble from a yearlong hiatus, an interval that probably seems more like a decade on Kawabata's busy calendar...
- pitchfork.com
2011-09-28
★★★★★
Gatefold 2LP version, limited edition of 500 copies on pink/black vinyl with download code. "Anyone who has ever witnessed Acid Mothers Temple live has more than likely heard them perform 'Pink Lady Lemonade.' It's a staple of their live sets and has been released in various forms over the years on of now out of print releases...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2011-05-05
★★★★★
Now also available on vinyl! One could be excused for thinking that a new cd from Acid Mothers Temple might be surplus to requirements... yet, while that's for each individual to determine, it must also be said that prolific as these Japanese psych purveyors are (and this isn't even the only new AMT we have, there's another that's a collaboration with Italian band Stearica), there's been nary a dud in their discography...
- aquariusrecords.org
2011-04-11
★★★★★
2011 repress. "While this album is certainly a tribute record it doesn't consist of straight-up Sabbath worship in the simple sense of covers. The band sounds as if they are simultaneously paying respect to other Sabbath-influenced projects such as Melvins or Zeni Geva, the later being the former home of Tabata, one of the Temple's latest recruits. Starless and Bible Black Sabbath consists of two tracks, the first being an epic thirty four minute blowout titled 'Lady from Hell...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2011-03-21
★★★★★
If the delicate title of this mound of psycho-psychedelics doesn't say enough, Tokyo's Acid Mothers Temple make another twisted classic rock innuendo with the best track, Loved and Confused, and in so doing spell out their very tortured and somewhat conflicted admiration of classic rock's most spirited themes. While the hippie love is all about dirty, feedback-stacked chaos, the confusion is manifested in avant-acid bewilderment in shapes of Hawkwind, Earth and sundry space-oddities...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Trying to keep up with the near-limitless output of Kawabata Makoto's Japanese psych-rock lunatic unit Acid Mothers Temple and their various guises is a near full-time research job, so the band is best enjoyed in the moment. In this case, their fourth release for Montreal's Alien8 Recordings, Lord of the Underground, and another three-track gem - two loud, one soft - that stretches out for 40-plus glorious minutes. yes...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
This Japanese collective have such an over-the-top take on all things trippy, their work seems to teeter between ferocious psychedelic salute and curious psychedelic spoof. When they blast the stuff at us with muscle, it comes with so much conviction there's no doubting its authenticity. But when they whisper it with floaty vocals and spacy interludes (as they so elegantly do here), it's shakier - and nearly busting a smirk. Still, exotic and mighty colourful...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
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