The UFO Club – The UFO Club (2012) review
No … it’s not mono garage psych crawling
across your musical threshold as Them [with Van Morrison] did back in 1966,
riveting you in place with “Mystic Eyes”; though should you momentarily
time-slip, that’s all the better.
Christian Bland [of The Black Angels] and Lee Blackwell [of Night Beats]
open a door to a room filled with indulgences, delivering hazy neo-psychedelic
meanderings that sound as if they’ve been channeled in on a vacuum tubed radio
who’s signal has shifted due to atmospheric conditions, beaming in an aery of
songs, some filled with illusive tinny guitar gestures and nonchalant
deliveries, while others are full and rich, enticing, walking a fine line
between reality and a dream.
across your musical threshold as Them [with Van Morrison] did back in 1966,
riveting you in place with “Mystic Eyes”; though should you momentarily
time-slip, that’s all the better.
Christian Bland [of The Black Angels] and Lee Blackwell [of Night Beats]
open a door to a room filled with indulgences, delivering hazy neo-psychedelic
meanderings that sound as if they’ve been channeled in on a vacuum tubed radio
who’s signal has shifted due to atmospheric conditions, beaming in an aery of
songs, some filled with illusive tinny guitar gestures and nonchalant
deliveries, while others are full and rich, enticing, walking a fine line
between reality and a dream.
Take “Bo Diddley Was The 7th Son” … it’s
musically keyed to the original take of “Who Do You Love” while paying homage
to the song “7th Son,” delivered uptempo, cutting, and filled with so much fire
and negro [to us a bygone jargon draw from the 60’s] dance beats you’ll wish it
would never end. Other songs such as
“John The Cat,” harken back to Syd Barrett and “Lucifer Sam,” but take the song
one step over the line, filling it with more imagery and magic than Owsley
could have conjured from a sparkling vat of Lysergic 25. Yes there is even a cutting edge and brilliantly
short take on The Rolling Stones’ “This Could Be The Last Time,” and an
unexpected version of The Ronettes “Be My Baby” … a group Christian’s been
smitten with as of late.
musically keyed to the original take of “Who Do You Love” while paying homage
to the song “7th Son,” delivered uptempo, cutting, and filled with so much fire
and negro [to us a bygone jargon draw from the 60’s] dance beats you’ll wish it
would never end. Other songs such as
“John The Cat,” harken back to Syd Barrett and “Lucifer Sam,” but take the song
one step over the line, filling it with more imagery and magic than Owsley
could have conjured from a sparkling vat of Lysergic 25. Yes there is even a cutting edge and brilliantly
short take on The Rolling Stones’ “This Could Be The Last Time,” and an
unexpected version of The Ronettes “Be My Baby” … a group Christian’s been
smitten with as of late.
The duo seem not lost, but searching for
that explored side street that will allow them to re-imagine the music of the
late 50’s and early 60’s though the prism of the Summer of Love, and dilated
eyes … presenting an intoxicating combination of guitar work that may have
you thinking they’ve discovered some missing Pink Floyd material, and it’s
being handed to us without reservation, just some magnificent revisions.
that explored side street that will allow them to re-imagine the music of the
late 50’s and early 60’s though the prism of the Summer of Love, and dilated
eyes … presenting an intoxicating combination of guitar work that may have
you thinking they’ve discovered some missing Pink Floyd material, and it’s
being handed to us without reservation, just some magnificent revisions.
Interview with Christian Bland of The Black Angels.
Review made by Jenell Kesler / 2012
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http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com / 2012
http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com / 2012
