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This record is definitely intoxicating and hallucinogenic. Instead of the overtones of the 60's however there are the overtones of the late 90's. Gritty synth and sequenced beats mix in with mumbling messiah vocals and fuzzy feedback. Similar in tone to other bands of this discipline, there can be a penchant for some mind numbing repetition. The reason why such repetition and building and releasing worked with the first wave of psyc music in the 60's was the live band and the human element. Nowadays few bands do that, and here Indian Jewelry rely on the perfect beat of a cold and predictable tempo of a computer loop, effects and seqencing for their tracks, and this lackluster 'experimentation' is very apparent on track 6 entitled "going south" which stretches on for a solid 10 minutes of the same old MPC style beat. This is a band with sonic potential if perhaps they record a record as a band and not a computer loop; which according to internet rumor they are doing at present in LA.