“Heart of Darkness” is a quietly intense, masterful song. It has the single greatest bassline I can actually pick out of a record – a gently disturbing, rolling groove that is the rock for Peter Laughner’s & Tom Herman’s guitar electro-static bursts. David Thomas, perhaps realizing from his days of shouting as “Crocus Behemoth” in Rocket From The Tombs that he was not blessed with a particularly charismatic set of pipes, brings his vocals down to a breathy whisper-speak that heightens the building tension of the song. I don’t believe any band save the Velvet Underground had created as brilliantly sinister a rock n’ roll number up to the point of this record’s release. [Source]
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