Tag Archives: 60s Throwback

Brightblack Morning Light

Brightblack Morning Light. The New Weird America. A picturesque vision of languid soundscapes harvesting the star filled sky. Stars. Remember those? If you can think back real hard on your childhood, there was probably a time where your dreams were based on these magical, shiny spheres. If you can’t remember, most of them dissipated along with the wishes of other city children resulting from the infecting effects of rampant pollution and artificial light. It’s hard to see the natural skyline when it’s constantly washed out. Since we’re on the subject, can we change the subject… Now.

BML are Nathan Shineywater and Rachael Hughes, both Southern souls, who drift in a swamp of atmospheric slow-mo blues slightly tinged in gospel roots.  Completely off the grid and from the land, it’s a Motion to Rejoice. A Spiritualized revivalism that is spatial, hypnotic, and laced with ambient harmony that can take you to the place of lost dreams if you let it.

Black Lips – Modern Art

The self described ‘flower punk’ band, Black Lips, sounds like if Anton Newcombe not only discovered his garage punk roots, but also discarded his perfectionist qualities into a 60s black hole of chaos. !@#$ it! We’ll do it live. The production is in a low-fi haze, and the raw delivery is kissing the lips of flower-power throwback and forever smearing them black. Good? Bad? Definitely not evil.

The Strange Boys

Let’s go back in time and play a fictitious game where conceivably you’re placed in a comprising situation where you can influence the thoughts of Mark David Chapman, the clinically depressed and obsessed Beatle murderer. You have no choice but to either off Paul McCartney or John Lennon by controlling the voices in Chapman’s head. But alas, you try and work outside the experiment and your repeated attempts to voice the idea of shooting Ringo Star, the worst Beatle, fails. Now enter The Strange Boys an American garage, blues, rock ‘n’ roll band.  Their resulting song, Should Have Shot Paul, transfixes all those guilt ridden thoughts into a 1min 54sec melody of beautiful agony.

White Fence

If White Fence is a hypothetical, then imagine a distortion laced flashback of The Strange Boys where Syd Barrett meets The Kinks on a sunny 60s psychedelic pop-influenced day. Never the mind the weirdness that combines Lo-Fi psych garage rock with echoing reverb and laughter, it’s just the hint of the hippie ideal turning Darker My Love..