Brian Jonestown Massacre Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?

• Tempo 116.7 (Reaching For Dangerous Levels Of Sobriety)
• The Heavy Knife
• Lets Go Fucking Mental (Melodica Mix)
• White Music
• This Is The First Of Your Last Warnings (Icelandic Version)
• This Is The One Thing We Did Not Want To Have Happen
• The One
• Someplace Else Unknown
• Detka! Detka! Detka!
• Super Fucked
• Our Time
• Feel It (Of Course We Fucking Do)
• Felt Tipped-Pen Pictures Of UFOs

Featuring not only Will Carruthers of Spaceman 3 on bass, but the full-time return of guitarist/ songwriter Matt Hollywood- he penned the stinging “Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth”- into the fold as well, the Brian Jonestown Massacre (aka: whomever Anton Newcombe is currently touring with) are following up the so-so shoegazed sprawl of 2008’s My Bloody Underground with the equally well-titled Who Killed Sergeant Pepper?.  And for those who know the band only as ‘60s rock/ ‘80s shoegaze revivalists, or as the head-kicking hedonists of DiG!, this may be the album that dispels you of such notions- recorded in Iceland and Berlin, the new disc spins from ambient electronica beats, moody Bhangra folk, thrashy rock and eastern-tinged psychedelia.  And that’s just the first two tracks.  Who Killed may not really reveal who murdered Sgt. Pepper, but it just might reanimate the BJM’s career.

Abstract by Travis Woods