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Twice Bitten
A Triggering Myth Album Reviews
I/E Magazine, Fall 1993
Review by Darren Bergstein
Now here's a band who emphasizes the "progress" in progressive rock. A Triggering Myth's second album is even richer than their already impressive debut. They've largely shed their developmental influences to yield a thrilling and quite remarkable concoction; Twice Bitten shows a band who have refined and honed their chops and display them with remarkable alacrity. As a duo, multi-instrumentalists Rick Eddy and Tim Drumheller paint a broader symphonic canvas than most ensembles with five members or more. And putting their music in symphonic terms is one of the best ways to describe them; a number of the quasi-classical motifs that surface in "The English Lesson" and crop up throughout the record as a whole, are woven into the sonic fabric with a high degree of originality, foregoing the usual clichés which dog the genre. Especially befitting the record's evolved palette is the twenty-minute epic "Myths", a grand tour through the mysterious, sundry lands that fairly dances with incessant drums, haunting pianos and synths, and a dark, almost sinister atmosphere. And as a coda, soak in the cool beauteous strains of "P.S." with its lilting jazz inferences. Bravo guys—you've got a future!
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