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Avatar

by Comets on Fire

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD version of the album in a gatefold digipak.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Avatar via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Loser Edition Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Limited edition Starburst-colored vinyl available during pre-order or while supplies last.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Avatar via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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After 2004’s critically acclaimed Blue Cathedral, one might have expected Comets on Fire to blast off into the cosmos in an infinite flurry of lysergic spasmodicism. Surprising, then, that they should turn in an earthy, more accessible and downright beautiful album as their follow-up. Then again, it is a completely logical progression, but in reverse, sort of. On Avatar their astonishing new album, Comets display development in every direction: as musicians, as songwriters, as arrangers and as singers (?!), without sacrificing one ounce of the intensity that is expected from our heroes. As on Blue Cathedral, the diversity of the material is staggering. Avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry, to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans, to Quicksilver, to Procol Harum, to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remains wholly Comets on Fire. Though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and abundant. They have shifted gears and opened themselves up completely. You should do the same.

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released April 29, 2016

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Comets on Fire Santa Cruz, California

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