Listen: Acid Glasses – My Pale Garden

Names are always crucial when starting a band. They instantly and subconsciously tell people if they should be interested in you while also giving listeners a precursory clue to what they should be expecting to hear. You know precisely what you’re going to get with, say, Cradle of Filth. You’re not exactly going to invite them to play at your gran’s 70th or your cousin’s christening, are you? Well, you might, but that would make you a sadist. But sadly some bands don’t learn this important rule of thumb and hence those none the wiser could so easily mistake your ravings on My Bloody Valentine to be some fanboy drooling over a teeny group full of black and blonde hairdos.

Acid Glasses, the product of Memphis-born Nick Burk, however does exactly what he says in the sleeve notes. In the same way that beer goggles might make a fairly ordinary looking girl appear like Natalie Portman circa Garden State, Acid Glasses takes ordinary pop melodies and channels them through a psychedelic kaleidoscope, creating a hazy and euphoric cascade of jangly guitars, overlapping vocals and twinkling percussion.

Already having comparisons drawn to Animal Collective and Gross Magic, ‘My Pale Garden’ sounds like Ariel Pink rolling around in a field of poppies with The Beatles. That sounds like a bit of cliché but screw it, we’re on acid here.

Acid Glasses – My Pale Garden by The Line Of Best Fit