Albums
Flamingo Honey
2004
Release Date: 2004
By Johnny Loftus
Reviewed August 31, 2004
Riding an extremely short-lived wave of hype last year as the first band signed to Jack White's Third Man imprint, Whirlwind Heat's atrocious second album fares no better than their abominable first.
Back when Whirlwind Heat was still fresh from Jack White's teat, their muse was a squawking harpy communicating to the scene dwellers through David Swanson's yowling mouth and Moog squawk. A bit older now, and with their rep attaché bulging, the trio has issued . But apparently enamored of their own hype aura, they've spelled out "too cool for school" in wracked and twisted pipe cleaners and call the tangled and spiny mess a second album. It's presumptuous and irritating, this recording of 10 one-minute songs. Presumptuous because at least two of those minutes are cocktease throwaways resting crumpled at the feet of Beck and Thurston Moore. Time wasters. Irritating, because a few other of these minutes gleam with something compelling, only to yank the rug right as we get our footing.