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The Matadors - Flame the Whisper
Review by John Pegoraro (StonerRock.com)
Devil Doll Records
Release date: 2007


The last album from The Matadors, The Muse of Senor Ray, was another one of those albums that just was. Good for what it was, but not really memorable enough to warrant telling your friends about.

At a patience enduring (for this critic at least) 16 tracks, Flame the Whisper's hedging its bets that at least half of the songs are gonna stick. And to the band's credit, that's the case. The band's taking the tried 'n' true Swedish stoner sound and countrifying it, making them a sort of Queens of the Stone Age wearing ten gallon hats and dusty boots with spurs. If it sounds like I'm being overly hard on the band, I'm not. It's a style that works well. The songs are punchy as hell and they occasionally approach the same sort of technical finesse that Dexter Jones' Circus Orchestra has (especially "The Luscious Cabaret" and "Ode to L&G").

When they get too involved in their self created mythology (lots of references to their own bad selves on Flame the Whisper) or when they let the "cha cha cha" mariachi moments take center stage, I'd rather just extinguish the whisper. Overall, though, this is a marked improvement for the band and worth checking out.