their songs of breath-taking complexity also possessing powerful emotional immediacy
and alluringly strange
Room on Fire is the second studio album by American indie rock band The Strokes
Chris Hillman was the band's de facto leader (he was the only member of the group who had appeared on the Burritos' classic debut album) and Last of the Red Hot Burritos reflects Hillman's passion for bluegrass
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The Velvet Underground — White Light/ White Heat The Saints their songs of breath-taking complexityVelvet Underground: Lou Reed (vocals, guitar, piano); Sterling Morrison (vocals, guitar, bass); John Cale (vocals, electric viola, organ, bass); Maureen Tucker (percussion). WHITE LIGHT WHITE HEAT, the Velvet Underground's second album, is the band at their most calculated and perverse, but it also shows another side. It is a glimpse of the more accessible rock which Lou Reed wrote but wasn't entirely comfortable with until the group's third album.