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Title: Excellent CD, the best by Thin White Rope
Review: I have to disagree with the Andy Gill review above. Where he hears droning, I hear some of the best hard rock of the 1980's. "In the Spanish Cave" is impressionistic and not very melodic, so you either connect with it or you don't. I connect with it bigtime. "In the Spanish Cave" is Thin White Rope's darkest, most hard-driving album, brimming with frustration, and not as "desert-parched" as, say, "Exploring the Axis." You do have to be in the right mood for this CD to have its effect -- if you are, then Kyser's expressions of tension and frustration like "It's OK" and "July" are irreplaceable.
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