Velvet Underground in the L.A. Times: 'They are dull,' we wrote

In early 1968 the Velvet Underground released "White Light / White Heat." Listen today and it's an album that enacts beastly, incommunicable acts upon its instruments, be it the schizophrenic riffs that holler as if from beyond the grave on "I Heard Her Call My Name" or the familiar yet warped barroom strut of the title track, which dragged comfortable sounds into less than alluring locales. 

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