Make Up

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A double album made up of live and studio material, <i>Make Up</i> was the Japanese psych-rock godfathers' fifth album overall, but third as the mind-blowing doom-prog band people came to identify them in the years since they released <i>Satori</i> in 1971. Highlighted by the psychedelic Deep Purple/Sabbath hybrid opener, "All the Days," and a pair of 10-minute-plus tracks — space-rocker "Look At My Windows" and a live take on the epic, meditative "Hiroshima," from <i>Made In Japan</i>, <i>Make Up</i> fills in the blanks between such Western bands as Cream and Blue Cheer and the blown-out guitar mania of High Rise and Mainliner that came along in the '90s. Yuya Uchida, the Japanese film star who was the original singer for the band (when they were known as Yuya Uchida & The Flowers and played only covers) makes a guest appearance on the album's second to last song, a cover of "Blue Suede Shoes." While the guitars are characteristically great, the real draw is Uchida's impersonation of Elvis Presley.

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