Biography
Charlie Megira (1972-2016) was a rock dynamo. Backed by the Modern Dance Club, the Israeli songwriter's 2011 double LP, Love Police, is rhapsodic. Thirty-one tracks take listeners through a dizzying melee of uninhibited psych with lapses into punk fury and jarring studio experiments. 1960s pop flees by way of breezy guitar leads into poignant balladry. It's also staggeringly heavy, with pummeling low-end steadying each track for Megira's searing guitar to writhe over. To close it out, "Dead Girl Blues" even provides 48 seconds of acoustic blues. Love Police suggests an artist untethered from trends and cheap pandering, indulging his every whim with an uncanny success rate.
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