Don't Just Take It Personally, Take it Home!
SSknowOrchid | California | 08/13/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"As a long time fan of both Starlite Desperation and Dante Adrain, I've seen enough shows to have heard a number of the songs on this album before they were released. One in particular, Even if You're Lost, has been stuck in my head for over a year. I could not wait to get my hands on the album so I could get to my IT song but It wasn't just the IT song, really, this album is the IT album! SD never ceases to impress. My Violin makes me feel out of control, I Love This demands a ride in a hot place in an old car with a bunch of sweaty people you love, Multi Magic Millions seems like it was born to be a single, wait a minute, where is that song? Its in my head all the time, damn, once again I have to walk around all miserable without that one song. Anyway, My Favorite Place has such a powerful guitar riff, my knees do that orgasm shake when the song starts. I've been sonically enthralled by DA's guitar for like, 20 years...I like to say I can't wait to hear what comes next but I'm going to take some time absorbing this one. I finally got a CD copy of Go Kill Mice (its just so hard to listen to vinyl in the car) and had barely become acquainted with the album when I had to rip it out and replace it with Take it Personally. The albums are so amazingly different from one another. Go Kill Mice just seems tame, like the Thorazine version of Starlite Desperation, all except for Go Kill Mice and Mona Lisa Snake (My IT song for the last three years). Maybe its good to be able to sound so unlike what some expect to hear, raw like sushi on their first release, Show You What a Baby Won't, all clean and fresh and sharp. Varying degrees of experimental fabulousness that was so unmistakably DA with Lion Fever on Lustre and Lost Kids on their self named EP. Raw like beef on Violate a Sundae, all dirty and thick and meaty. Then finally throwing us starving fans a bone, marrow still wet with Don't Do Time. And now, now the coagulation of years of adjective bashing culminating into a surprising balance between perfection and clever curiosity. Welcome to the moment we've all been waiting for, we think, until the next album when SD reminds us that sometimes we don't know what we've been waiting for until it accosts us, Personally of course, with gratuitous goodness."
Track Listings (12) - Disc #1