It oozes out of El Paso, 30 miles to the east,
a mournful,undecipherable jumble of words seemingly pulled at random from a dictionary of
obuscure words & phrases pulled along by a soundtrack of crashing guitars & noise, I'm talking about At The Drive In,The Mars Volta,
Sparta & to a lesser extent,Sleepercar, they cast a dark shadow over this region, those sad fuzzy
headed boys of angst, The Beat Cowboys in contrast
are a breathe of fresh air, hell you actually 
know what they're singing about, yes what the
Mesilla Valley needs is more men wearing cowboy
hats instead of black lipstick, On this release
the Beat Cowboys harken back to the days of old
San Francisco (Haight-Asbury not the Gold Rush),
On this ep's best song "Black Egg" they channel
their inner Moby Grape, the country influence of
the early 60's Country-Folk-Stoner Rock pulls it
all together, but they don't leave their other
root influences behind (the Stones,Garage Rock)
what the Mesilla Valley needs, hell what the USA
needs is more Beat Cowboys, yeah that and cold
beer, adios compadre.
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