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[                 Lenny Kravitz--Circus                     ]

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Style    [ Rock              ]        [ 160kbps / 44,1kHz ] Quality

Date     [ 10-31-1999        ] ░▒▓▓▒░ [ 11 (50:59 min)    ]   Songs

The Circus has rolled into town: Lenny Kravitz's fourth long-player

evokes two of the word's meanings, as in the album's carnival-like

psychedelic atmosphere, bus also in the metal sturm und drang ethic

of the grand metal magazine of the `70s. Kravitz once again shows us

that he is truly the master at producing albums that sound absurdly

like Led Zeppelin II. A harder, more raucous Kravitz has toned down

his soft soulfulness on Circus in favor of flash, grease-pains, glam

and Les Pauls, though some of the album's later moments do tease the

ears with Lenny's Curtis Mayfield-meets-John Lennon soulisms. Half

the fun is naming the tricks he's copping: slick from Humble Pie

here, a fill from Aerosmith there, a scarf from Noel Redding

there...In Kravitz's mind, the swirling haze of every psychedelic

fantasy of rock life blur together, and whether he's treading the

boards in a haze of flashpots and pot smoke, or taking a romp through

gilded squalor in some rock palace full of torn velvet, even if it's

all in Lenny's mind, it's convincing as hell. His secret weapons are

guitar player Craig Ross, of the dainty, wan and winsome school of

rock icons (part Jimmy Page, part Marc Bolan, part Percy Bysse

Shelley, part Paganini, part Turner), and of course, extraterrestrial

space-funk drummer Cindy Blackman, both of whom help make Circus into

a convincing sprawl of clamorous hard rock excess and gleeful

abandon. For those about to rock, we salute "Rock And Roll Is Dead,"

the Hendrix-ian "Beyond The 7th Sky," "Thin Ice" and "Circus."

01 Rock And Roll Is Dead                                  (03:23)

02 Circus                                                 (04:47)

03 Beyond The 7th Sky                                     (04:54)

04 Tunnel Vision                                          (04:19)

05 Cant Get You Off My Mind                               (04:33)

06 Magdalene                                              (03:48)

07 God Is Love                                            (04:25)

08 Thin Ice                                               (05:33)

09 Dont Go And Put A Bullet In Your Head                  (04:21)

10 In My Life Today                                       (06:28)

11 The Resurrection                                       (04:28)

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