...it is a welcome event to hear the group still sounding so fresh and majestically strange today. Feel It Like a Scientist feels like classic Chrome. The opening “Nephilims (Help Me!)” sets the tone. The swirling organ and guitars are punctuated with the sound of smashing glass, while the voice of Helios Creed sails toward the great beyond. “Prophecy” is another monster, like the soundtrack to a ’60s sci-fi flick that was too frightening to be released. The cut features Creed’s voice without the usual treatments, and it has aged like whiskey in a cracked barrel... Lemmy-era Hawkwind. “Cyberchondria” Creed’s vocals are those of a campy spook on “Captain Boson,” and for “Big Brats,” he gets his Cookie Monster on. The inclusion of “Big Brats” is a nice acknowledgement of the band’s long history, as it was written by the late Damon Edge, who founded Chrome in 1975. “Unbreakable Lithium” is science fiction gone awry, and combines an overwhelming feedback roar with the heaviest prog this side of Magma. The album closes with a short Tangerine Dream-like instrumental titled “Nymph Droid.” seattle.icito/music-review-chrome-feel-it-like-a-scientist-23/
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