The death last month of Gang Of Four's founding guitarist Andy Gill is still reverberating all throughout the music world, and as a tribute of sorts the band rush released the last few songs that they were working on with Mr. Gill right before his untimely passing, a re-recorded and reimagined song collection named This Heaven Gives Me Migraines, and I gotta say it's not very good as far as tributes go. Of the 3 songs on here, only 1, Natural's Not In It, showcases the level of guitarical genius that Andy Gill was capable of, with the other 2, The Dying Rays and Toreador, more a testament to his lush, atmospheric production style than anything else. To flesh out the release they tacked on snippets of Andy Gill's isolated vocal track from Love Like Anthrax at the beginning of this release and of him talking about his favorite color purple at the end of it. Weird but ok. Sonically this sounds incredible, the re-recording of Naturals Not In It sounds a bit stiff and stale though, and besides the obvious cash in of royalty payments I see no other reason for bands to re-record their early classic stuff, reimagined or not. If you got nothing to say now musically, then quit reminding us of what you had to say musically back then, back when it was real, back when it was sincere and not just a give it a name grubby cash grab. Mr. Gill deserves a much better tribute from the band than this. Much better. Available digitally wherever Punk is bought and sold like the cheap commodity that it is.
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