September 19, 2001
The Fresno State Collegian

Art Rock With a Modern Flair

By Josh Tehee

When the Attila & Dave Project first came across my desk and I was asked to do a review, I sat there dumbfounded, wondering where to even begin. How do you approach a group that is heralded as, "the best psychedelic alternative band in years?"

How I missed an entire musical genre in the last 10 years is beyond me, but there I was with their CD, "Lifeline," grasped firmly in my hands, just dying to figure this whole thing out. The first track answered all the questions.

If you created a super group that had Michael Stipe, fronting Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and King Crimson's Robert Fripp, you could call it the Attila & Dave Project and no one would be the wiser. The album comes in where those bands, the Floyds and the Crimsons and the Yeses, left off as the '70s screeched to a halt and the '80s kicked in with its New Wave and Hair Rock revolutions.

The album is fun to listen to in the same way it is fun to pull out an old Zeppelin album and sit in your room for hours being nostalgic. The band is especially good on "Moonlight," not being afraid to take seven minutes and 15 seconds on a song.

The band is set to perform in the amphitheatre, today at noon. If they can create live half of the feel and vibe of the album, it should be a show worth seeing.