Drunk With Passion by Golden Palominos

Drunk With Passion, the Golden Palominos' fifth album, surfaced in 1991, and like every Palominos record it's really an Anton Fier production in the old Hollywood sense: the drummer, producer and arranger picks the cast, and the cast changes the picture. Bill Laswell and Nicky Skopelitis, the two players who turned up on every album through 1996, hold down the center while guests shade each track a different color. Bob Mould steps up for "Dying from the Inside Out".

A decade on from the band's No Wave beginnings, this is lush, slow-moving alternative rock, all mist and long shadows, and "Alive and Living Now" is the track that drifted onto the countdowns. The critics weren't sold. Spin liked Mould's turn and called the rest overlong and overproduced, New York filed it as art rock for aging post-punks, and the Orlando Sentinel heard Fier sleepwalking toward New Age.

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