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Fantastic album, I enjoy this as much if not more than any Tool album. Galileo is becoming my favorite song ever!!
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Pressing sounds amazing... No complaints only praise!
Great album. Good pressing. Some static out of the box but it was was only wiped down with D4. Should sound amazing once it gets a spin clean. Album has great dynamic range... I'm very happy with the quality of my purchase.
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Front man of the highly respected Tool and A Perfect Circle, Maynard Keenan dropped Puscifer’s third LP, Money Shot in 2015. I remember there being some fan groans when this album came out before A Perfect Circle’s, Eat the Elephant and the much anticipated Fear Inoculum by Tool. It had been announced and circulated that both bands were working on new material at the time and fans were rabid for new material.
Puscifer, if you are not familiar, is a project by created back in 1995. Maynard and Tool guitarist Adam Jones showed up on an episode of HBO’s Mr. Show as Puscifer. Then in 2003 we were given a taste of the music to come on The Underworld soundtrack. Throughout the early 2000’s there were the occasional soundtrack releases and finally in October of 2007 we got a single, an EP and the LP V is for Vagina. The album seemed like a fun goof and never took itself serious. In 2011 Puscifer dropped their sophomore album, Conditions of My Parole. This album seemed more focused than the previous release. Instead of Puscifer sounding like a joke album made with a bunch of friends in their free time, it had lots of character and depth that was missing from the first entry. It also carried along with it the humor and musical parts that really worked with the first album. Without going too far into the first two albums I will add one of the biggest impacts was the addition of singer Carina Round, who vocally works so well with Maynard. Now that we are up to speed, let’s take a look at 2015’s Money Shot.
On Money Shot we see a return of the musicians that made the last album so special. I bought the digital copy upon its release and recently purchased the LP on vinyl. Honestly I didn’t feel it at first. There were a few standout tracks but nothing really spoke to me. I saw them on the tour promoting the record and that’s when this album clicked with me. Now I find it one of my go to albums when I just want to chill out or if I have company over and we need a little background sound. I always find it special when you can find an album that you can lose yourself consuming it alone and it easily transitions to something you can play when people are gathered in your living room or around the fire pit as a soundtrack for great conversation.
The album starts with Galileo, a slow moving track with a spacey beat. Maynard’s vocals are dominant with Carina’s voice accompanying ever so subtle in the background. It’s an excellent combination with the drone of the music taking you on an almost dark ambient/shoegaze adventure that conjures (in my mind) vast landscapes at dusk. Puscifer has that effect on me. Maybe it’s me being a Maynard fan boy but in this music I feel the beauty of the desert has been captured by the musicians. I label a band like Kyuss as Desert Rock, I would give this the label of Desert Electronic.
So the first three tracks are the spacey introspective sounds that I have come to love from Puscifer. Then we get to Simultaneous. This song has an ambient beat and a narration about a guy who talks to a person who is standing out at a festival and this is the moment that will pull you out of the moment for a bit. Not in a bad way, its narration always has me perk up and listen with intent. After about four minutes the song takes off to a familiar vibe.
The next three tracks, the album titled Money Shot, The Arsonist and The Remedy pick up the pace of the album. Money Shot is a bit of that V is for Vagina humor as is The Remedy. Money Shot doesn’t transition so well after coming off of Simultaneous. I feel that’s due to the mind trip that you get from Simultaneous. Honestly I think I played that song at least three times on the first listen. I really like The Arsonist and The Remedy is kind of cheesy but Maynard and Corina are masters of the syllable and the pacing of their vocals turn this one into a banger for me.
Smoke and Mirrors and Life of Brian slow the pace down. While not as good as the first four tracks they mellow out the album in a very nice way. Autumn the final track on the album I feel like it doesn’t fit at all. It sounds like a lost Perfect Circle track more than anything and takes away from a great finale.
I like this record despite a few bumps in the road. Maynard’s vocals have over the years become a warm blanket for me. It’s comforting hearing his voice. He is a brilliant word smith and I think he found his equal with Carina Round. The shared melodies mixed with the desert electronic sound makes for an almost fully immersive album. Something else to note is that there is a different mix of Simultaneous on the vinyl issue of the album, complete with a different narration by Daniel Ash of Bauhaus.
If you are not familiar with this band and are thinking about checking them out this or Conditions for My Parole would be a great starting point. Love him or hate him, Maynard is undeniably a unique and creative powerhouse in the music industry. Not everything he touches turns to gold but if you are a fan it is worth your attention.
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2015
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- BrendaReviewed in Canada on September 14, 2024
This CD is very interesting, it makes you listen.
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Carlos Velarde RodriguezReviewed in Spain on April 12, 2023
Buena música pero la descripción no es correcta.
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- Raining FlavourReviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2016
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