A Better Dystopia

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The RADIO METAL review: The Americans of Monster Magnet were already honoring the rock of the seventies when the "revival" of that era was not yet in vogue... A band that lives for the stage, and whose reason for being has been put on hold since the beginning of the pandemic. It must be said that Monster Magnet refuses "video-music" and streaming concerts. Thus, in the absence of new compositions, the band turns to a covers album with A Better Dystopia! These covers perfectly distill the stoner and psychedelic rock DNA of Monster Magnet into a musical synthesis of the vices and anxieties of an era marked by the threat of nuclear conflict, the wanderings of the Vietnam War, the Manson murders, racial tensions, and the influx of LSD... Dark corners of History that the band invokes and which are reflected in the chosen tracks that marked the youth of its leader Dave Wyndorf, transformed here into glossy musical tributes of fantasy. The worst of the past at least had the merit of sparking creativity and imagination...