After forming in 1999, the ever-changing personnel of The Warlocks meant that the band had already toured nineteen different members before it was slimmed to the classic seven-piece outfit that established their reputation. Consisting of Bobby Hecksher (Vocals/Guitar), J.C. Rees (guitar), Ryan McBride (guitar), Jenny Fraser (Bass), Laura Grigsby (Tambourine/Keys), Bob Mustachio (Drums) and Jason Anchondo (Drums) - their two drummers with four guitarists formation produced a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggested a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground-style rock and roll.
Front man Bobby Hecksher grew up in the swamps of Tampa Bay, Florida where he was practically raised at a radio station owned his Grandfather and where his mum also worked as a secretary. As a result Bobby was soon eating and breathing rock'n'roll on a daily basis.
Bobby recalls, "My granddad was an inspiration. He created the radio station out of thin air. And from it all these nuggets of rock'n'roll came toward me".
At sixteen his family left the swamps and moved to LA where Bobby soon found kindred spirits. He jammed with Beck playing bass on "Stereopathetic Soul Manure"; he hung out in the in the decadent atmosphere of the 'Mad Hatter' club and moonlighted in the Brian Jonestown Massacre whilst also attending parties with legendary acid guru Timothy Leary, a potent cultural and creative mix that led to the formation of The Warlocks.
Time isn’t constant or concrete. It’s made of color and shade. Time flows, blurs and fades away in dim morning light. Time melts. And The Warlocks are the ecstatic, hazy, foreboding, holy tick tock of time that isn’t anything at all.
For five albums, The Warlocks have lived in between and beyond minutes and hours. Sway to The Warlocks live and loud songs will drift and envelop each other like fog. Listen to the records and you’ll hear soundtracks to fuzz-freaked, bacchanalian stomps, pre-dawn city prowls, sleeping late with new crushes, and the elation and exhaustion that wash in and recede deep in the wee hours.
The Warlocks new LP The Mirror Explodes speaks and whispers from all of these places. But where the band’s last long player, Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, tweaked time in a icy-cool, white-noise swirl that evoked a decadent lysergic night, The Mirror Explodes is disorientation through a longer lens —pictures of luck, longing, losing, moods and fever dreams scrambled in the haze of near and distant memory.
On the 8 songs of The Mirror Explodes, the band’s signature amalgam of White Light/White Heat attack; space panoramas, fuzz, melancholy, and melody is present and potent. But there is vivid focus too. Throbbing bass lines, distant rolling thunder drums, and zombie rattlesnake shake are a heartbeat of strange, ominous vitality. Guitars howl, slash and bounce like light. Bobby Hecksher’s vocals sound oddly alone and unsettlingly intimate all at once. And just when you think you understand the sum of these sonic elements, they become something else entirely…
Discography (full length):
Rise and Fall (2001)
Phoenix (2002)
Surgery (2005)
Heavy Deavy Skull Lover (2007)
The Mirror Explodes (2009)
Isolation
The Warlocks Lyrics
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The flowers are in bloom but it's meaningless to me unless i see you
I can't look up to see the rainbow in your eyes when i'm all alone
My mind just prints your picture in my head when your not there
I've never felt like this before, i don't know what to do
I don't wanna leave I don't wanna move oh
I see darkness in her eyes, and darkness in her heart oh
The Warlocks' Isolation is a hauntingly beautiful song that speaks of the singer's intense longing for someone who is no longer in their life. The lyrics describe how even when everything around them is bright and beautiful, the singer cannot find happiness because the one they love is not with them. The sun is out and the flowers are in bloom, but it all feels meaningless without the person they long for. The lyrics suggest that the singer is in a state of isolation, unable to connect with the world without the person they love.
The second stanza speaks of the singer's desperation in trying to come to terms with their loss. The lyrics suggest that the singer is at a loss and feels like they have no direction. They don't want to leave, they don't want to move, but they are stuck in a place where they feel isolated and alone. The reference to darkness in her eyes and heart suggests that the person they love may have been dealing with their own demons, which may have contributed to the end of their relationship. The final lyrics reveal that the singer has intentionally shut out the world by closing the curtains, suggesting that they are lost in their own thoughts and trapped in their own isolation.
Line by Line Meaning
The sun comes out but it brings me no, happiness
Despite the good weather, I am still unhappy.
The flowers are in bloom but it's meaningless to me unless i see you
The beauty of nature has no impact on me unless I am with you.
I can't look up to see the rainbow in your eyes when i'm all alone
When I am by myself, I cannot see the beauty in your eyes.
My mind just prints your picture in my head when your not there
When you are not with me, all I can think about is you.
I've never felt like this before, i don't know what to do
This overwhelming feeling is new to me and I am unsure how to handle it.
I don't wanna leave I don't wanna move oh
I do not want to be away from you or change our current situation.
I see darkness in her eyes, and darkness in her heart oh
I notice a sense of sadness or negativity within you.
The curtains are all closed and the choice was made by me
I have intentionally isolated myself from the outside world and this situation is my own doing.
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