ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
50 MONSTER MAGNET
A Better Dystopia NAPALM
How good can a covers album be? Well, as it turns out, very good indeed, certainly in the case of this one. Clearly Dave Wyndorf’s enduring Magnet have invariably been driven by the power of the freakout, and here they further intensify the innate freak power of a selection of the (mostly obscure: Fuzztones, Poobah, Dust, Josefus, Hawkwind) songs that shaped their own lysergic journey into tripped out, hi-octane Spacelord Motherfuckery. IF
