2009 is proving to be something of a great year for psych rock. Maybe we should all get hairy and drag ourselves out West – West, where the white dove flies…
Psych Rock
Wooden Shjips – Dos
The Wooden Shjips’ manifesto is a simple one – to make fuzzed up improvisational psych rock, fuzzed up improvisational psych rock you can dance to. And to keep it simple, Dos is about as perfect a rendering of that ambition as you could hope for. It’s fuzzed up improvisational psych rock that you can bloody well dance to. Is that clear?
Pit er Pat – High Time
High Times for Chicago post-rockers Pit er Pat, James Dalrymple reviews.
