Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – Manzanita

1. L.A. Sacrifice
2. (Gone) ‘Round The Corner
3. Blue Wire
4. Sunshine
5. Ghost String
6. Slithery Thing
7. Green Meadow Slowdown
8. The Flume
9. Low Island Blues
Includes a free digital download.
“It’s easy to stereotype psychedelic music, but the genre has always attracted a wide variety of personalities and sounds, from paranoid weirdos wielding apocalyptic drones to flower children flaunting bucolic bliss. San Francisco’s houses a little of all of the above. “” stacks monuments to oblivion like the pulsing ‘L.A. Sacrifice’ amid dandelion-scented drifters like ‘Green Meadow Slowdown.’ Underpinning them all is an immaculate’and even sober’sense of songcraft, a focus on sun-dappled melody and jangling interplay that counteracts even the deepest shadows. It’s those high highs and low lows that push “” above so much of the current garage-psyche crop. Granted, the group’s sumptuous co-ed harmonies, Zombies-esque keys, touches of flute, and crushing slabs of distortion don’t hurt’nor do Charlie Saufley’s alternately smoky and helium-filled vocals. Above all, though, AHISS brings soulful grace and weary wonder to a sound that once thrived on both.”
All That Is Heavy, Jason Heller
LP album
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