The people who have in their record collection cherish this debut album by The Dream Syndicate as a holy grail. Together with contemporaries like and , the band made a good impression with a sixties-inspired sound full of whining guitars and unsteady, slightly hazy vocals. But where the aforementioned bands did find the pot of gold, The Dream Syndicate fell apart in 1989. Frontman Steve Wynn
… continued his career as a hard-working but unsuccessful underground musician. What a surprise then, that 29 years after their last album, The Dream Syndicate, is back and suddenly comes up with an album that can compete with that legendary debut. Steve Wynn says he is no longer an 'angry young man', but he shakes the psychedelic guitar gems right up his sleeve. All sweet music nerds who cherish the debut of The Dream Syndicate can buy this equally fine record blindly. (PdK)more
