Everything Comes & Goes Compilation

Everything Comes & Goes

Temporary Residence/Sonic Unyon

Brian Wong (CHARTattack)

04/26/2005 12:17pm

Nine artists — ranging from electronic acts, folkies and experimental rockers — gather on this album to pay tribute to Black Sabbath. Ozzy might be oblivious to his impact on Matmos, who turn in an abstract, minimal "F/X," or the Japanese bass-and-drums noise duo Ruins, who spit out bits and pieces of Sabbath classics through lo-fi distorted riffage, but the variety on this disc attests to metal's apparently far reach. Of course, it's the riff-less, more radical interpretations that fare best — "Iron Man" is transformed by Four Tet into an electro-organic, acoustic-guitar-and-hip-hop beat instrumental and Ned Oldham's Anomoanon turns "Planet Caravan" into wonderfully sprawling slo-core.