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the Phantom Limbs are as adept at scaring listeners as they are at rocking them

Their sound itself had more art and post-punk elements then most

"I gonged them because

Bakersfield's death-rock originators BURNING IMAGE was subject to an Alternative Tentacles Reissue of Necessity treatment with the CD collection 1983-1987

all lend themselves to create the American-Gothic theme that permeates This Is Not For Children

v323 - The Flaming Stars - "Named And Shamed" EP - VINYL the Phantom Limbs are asUnlike vintage culture vultures riding the retro wave, THE FLAMING STARS,with noted pulp fiction expert Max Dcharn as leader, seem to write themselves into the seedy realm of pulp and noir from inside out. Critics have made comparisons to stalwarts such as ENNIO MORRICONE and LEE HAZELWOOD as well as contemporaries like THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, NICK CAVE, and THE TINDERSTICKS, proving that THE FLAMING STARS possess the key to a strange, timeless