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Classic Album Review: Outrageous Cherry | Out There In The Dark

Be warned: If you visit, you may never find your way back.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Remember Time Bandits? That Terry Gilliam movie about thieves with a holy map of the universe who slipped through holes in the space-time fabric to nick priceless artifacts?

Well, somehow Detroit’s Outrageous Cherry got their hands on that map — and they’ve put it to artistic use. This garage-pop outfit have found a passageway that leads from The Rolling StonesPaint It, Black and The Electric Prunes’ Too Much To Dream Last Night to The Velvet Underground’s Loaded and Sonic Youth’s Expressway To Yr. Skull. And they’ve borrowed the best bits of all those worlds to create a new one of their own: A black-lit, interplanetary crash pad drenched with Dadaist drums, sawtoothed strumming and candy-coloured clouds of reverb. But be warned: If you visit, you may never find your way back.