Exit at the Axis by Sky Cries Mary

Exit at the Axis is an EP from Sky Cries Mary, the Seattle outfit founded by Roderick Wolgamott, and it came out on Capitol Records, a major label giving a very strange band plenty of rope. It sits between Don't Eat the Dirt... and A Return to the Inner Experience in their catalog, and it shows a group whose roots ran to European industrial noise-makers like Einstürzende Neubauten, Coil and Test Department as much as to the glam and punk of Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. "Moon Dream Meadow Allegory" gives the game away in its title: psychedelic rock stretched out into a trance-state drift, more head trip than hit single.

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