I actually saw these guys live a bunch of times going to shows in Boston. I mean, not literally, but guys just like these - vaguely talented, mildly well-versed in blues, metal, psychedelia, the Dead, and a minimalist and/or arty genre of choice that think gives them their special sauce (this Pitchy points out its a bit Motorickey, but they're been saying that about *everything* lately). Each song is, let's say, firmly inspired by a given style, with only the barest twist. You can almost hear them hanging out in the Cambridge practice space and saying let's do like a Hawkwind song, but like even trippier. And then they play the right beat and the right modal chords and a solo and the song's done. And when they play live this everyband hopes that if they genrehop often enough they'll hit one you haven't heard of and you'll mistake it as original.
No such luck guys! I've heard everything! That's howlingly untrue. But unfortunately I have heard pretty much everything on here, and while its all reasonably well done, its territory too well-tread for this to stand out as especially noteworthy 3/5
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