psychegarager&b
This blog has regularly followed the rise of retro-rock,
though this is probably only the tip of the acidberg, and now band Night Beats has
come to my attention in a swirl of genuine psychedelia and some garage in the
raw authenticity of guitar.
A trio, but not the power format and more the garagepsyche
of mid 60s, opening Celebration #1 is informed by its psyche backdrops and the
spoken-echo of a narrative, guitars fuzzed and distorted, whilst second Power
Child thrusts in with sharper rhythms and beats, but never heavy. Fifth Porgue
Manana is as raw garage as you can get, and sounds wonderfully like a live gig
in a small hall. This is followed by Sunday Mourning where by now I am
confirmed in hearing those other purveyors of this kind of psyche-revisiting,
Kula Shaker, and I have no idea if this namecheck would alienate or resonate: I
always felt KS gave homage credibility, as do NB.
Shangri Lah also does some reminding, and it is of The
Electric Prunes, though it is again more the garage over the psychedelic, but
as I have said, it is that mid to a little later 60s sound. Eighth Burn to
Breathe is some fine garage R&B, whilst Bad Love is even more direct with
its big horn blasts.
On tour in the UK from the 21st of this month,
they will be playing Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Nottingham, Brighton and
London. Alas, not near enough to me, so I will catch them next time.
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