MUSIC - Rusty Anderson, "Undressing Underwater"

Practice does make perfect. And Rusty Anderson’s been practicing for a long time, in a wide variety of styles, with the best of influences (like Paul McCartney). Of course, that’s not really practice, nor does Undressing Underwater, his first CD, come across as the result of experimentation. It’s more like the result of a long period of percolation, with ideas bottling up until finally exploding in a spasm of long overdue excellence. Anderson covers all the bases from the psychedelic (“Electric Trains”) to the shred-heavy hard rock of “Devil’s Spaceship” (a song as pleasing to listen to as it is inane) all the way to the slow contemporary rock of today (“Damaged Goods”). This isn't just a well-produced album, it's a testament to rock.

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