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Pharoah S. Wail | Inner Space | 10/06/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Frightening and fragile. Loud, murderous and innocent. Prince of Truth is tremendous. Via the magic of pre-ordering from Constellation a couple months ago I've had this album for 11 days. Prince of Truth. The phrase haunts me now. I've never listened to any one album as many times in a week-and-a-half as I have this. Play it loudly. Deep immersion.



Something is revealed here. It's never obviously stated. It's the unspoken realities of the human world. It's us. In The Slayer and On The Captain's Side we're being spoken to, from our pasts, our futures, ourselves and our present. It's utterly frightening in tone... in its implications... yet aurally beautiful. The confidence, swagger and sonic shock of The Slayer breathes life and menace into lyrics that you'll find elusive on the page. The indifferent slayer touches the lives of us all, to varying degrees.



Our shared truth is one of willingness, of genuine human fears, motivations and manipulations. I feel complicit, exalted, liberated, hopeless and revitalized.



We're a sparkly lot though, for a little while anyway. Some of us remember marveling at dragonflies when ponds were as big as oceans. Some of us have danced to grooves that would tickle William Parker and Hamid Drake. What a beautiful world we started in.



Maybe this is all in my head. Maybe you'll hear something else.



Has any cathedral anywhere on earth reverberated with the mystery, reverence and as serenely menacing a vision of humanity as comes forth in On the Captain's Side? Oh man. That last cruel song.



BUT... Don't drink and listen to this. If a group of artists are going to go to the trouble of doing THIS... if they were able to allow THIS to pass through them and out to us... don't wreck it by sitting there drunk and stupid. If you have to go chemical, go for more sensation. Heightened awareness, not dulled and desensitized. You deserve it.



If Goya could be brought to 10/6/09 (and if he could hear), he'd have loved this. I've written 400-something reviews here. Prince of Truth stands alone as we'll all fall together."

Some of the best I have heard in a while.

Craig Balson | California | 10/21/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I heard this played on a college station recently and had to have it. The music is haunting and speaks to your soul. I find myself more into the music than I think while listening. Don't miss out on this."