Q Magazine

Q Magazine
November 2003
4 Stars

Literate return from oblique Georgia rockers

Purveyors of an eccentric strain of Deep South rock, this Atlanta sextet have reportedly spend 10 years crafting their fifth album. The result is a lavish record that's as cryptic as R.E.M. and as expansive as The Flaming Lips. Singer-songwriter Jeff Calder is no intellectual slouch, as tracks such as "Cosmogonical Heliopolis" attest, but this music is warm and humane rather than aridly cerebral. The evocative "The Earth Makes Us Feel Things" in particular, hints that after two decades of obscurity, their time may have come.-Ian Gittins