Psychedelic Steppenwolves Title:Psychedelic Steppenwolves Label:Hands On Records Neo-beatnik poetry that reeks of nostalgia far too often, but I kind of like it anyway. Dave Rubin is a guy with a deep kind of New York voice, who does a slightly gravelly drawl, usually with music in the background, and usually the kind of jazz you'd expect, but a few tracks are more sonically adventurous, like the industrial/noise additions on cut (2) and maybe on (1). There's one real stand-out track as poetry: (16) "In the Bookstore". About the weird juxtapositions in the chaos of a used bookstore. For you blues people, there's a couple of tracks about the Blues: (6), (17) (with bluesy backing music). And I like the instrumental track (19): Industrial chugging, some percussion, and what sounds like tapping on glass bottles. Track (4) gets some points from me for having a Phil Ochs reference ("a suicide in a gold lame' suit"). Track (20) is a good finish. "Goodbye goddess of high rouge cheekbones and luminous amber eyes." 1 2:14 Zeitgeist 2 3:02 Lost Angels of New Jerusalem 3 1:16 An Affair 4 3:32 Psychedelic Steppenwolves 5 0:53 Telegraph Avenue 6 3:09 The Blues Singer 7 2:45 Outer Borough Literay Blues 8 1:33 Cryptic Triptych Part I 9 1:15 Night Music 10 2:11 Innovator's Stomp 11 0:54 The Greatest Novel Ever Written 12 1:04 Cafe Mediterranean 13 1:41 Dis Joint 14 1:29 The Stairway 15 4:12 Stage Fright 16 2:31 In The Bookstore 17 2:26 The Blues Kid 18 1:48 Doorways 19 1:24 Cryptic Triptych Part II 20 1:57 Goodbye Contact Info: Hands On Records 470 Kipp St. Teaneck, NJ 07666 (201)801-0840