Demo Title: Burning Doves
Band Members: C.W. Miner (drums, bass, guitar, vocals, production)
Location: Chicago, IL
Rating: 0 Skulls
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Band Name: Sunwheel Psychedelic
Demo Title: Burning Doves Band Members: C.W. Miner (drums, bass, guitar, vocals, production) Location: Chicago, IL Rating: 0 Skulls
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Jotun's Review:
I am always hesitant when I throw in a demo to review. I figure that for every good band one hears in their time, there has got to be at least 200-300 bad artists out there. The statistics are stacked 10 times higher against solo artists, as they could easily lead one to believe that they are too eccentric for a band, or they have goals with the music that they can't get anyone to jump on board with. I mean, come on. How many times is Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton out there, just waiting to be discovered?That brings me back to Sunwheel Psychedelic. As I said earlier, I was hesitant to throw the Burning Doves album in to begin with, and that hesitation was only compounded by the fact that the artwork on the album looked like it was made by someone who was being tutored in Photoshop. All I had to give this album was 10, maybe 15 seconds before I knew that I was going to suffer through every minute and ever song.
C.W. Miner, a man-of-all-trades, wrote, produced, performed, and released this entire failure of epic proportions. Miner was also a member in The Electric Hellfire Club - a fact I learned by going to his site, not by reading the press release (which also seemed like it was written by a four year old). Electric Hellfire, evidentially, was an electric-industrial-stoner metal influenced parade of relentlessness that finally ended in 2001 - from what I've gathered in my research. Miner must have taken some time off (hopefully not to brainstorm his solo project) and eventually came out with this compact slipped disc in 2003.
While really bashing this CD is making me feel a little better (although I really don't like to do this), I won't get back the time I spent listening to it. So I will mention a few points that are worth it to explain my point of view. The opening set of songs hint at some guitar talent but the dull, drawn out vocals remind me of what would happen if Type O Negative had a child with Herman Munster. You can't call it singing, because it's not. It's more like a monotone speaking part that's moved one or two notes in octave on the rare occasion. But there's a point where the guitar prowess beings to go out the window when on one track it sounds like Miner is directly ripping off Jimmy Page's riff from "Kashmir," which wouldn't really be a surprise as Miner lists Led Zeppelin as one of his favorite bands. But, if I can even say this, the album only goes downhill after the first three tracks. Elongated intros pervade many of the remaining tracks and the guitar parts are dumbed-down versions of simple hooks made popular by the artists of Zeppelin's age.
From the looks of it, since his self-release of this album over a year ago, Miner has only posted two positive reviews on his Web site. I'm sure we won't find this one among them. I felt bad trashing this album at first, because it is someone's artistic creation, and was originally going to give it one skull. But then I thought to myself, "If you give it one skull, what kind of a CD would it take to get zero skulls?" That's when I came to my senses.
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