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Format:Audio CD
Californian acid rockers Sleepy Sun follow up last year's `Embrace' with another serving of massive, sun-blasted riffs. On `Fever', however, they subvert the dynamics of ostentatious heaviosity by adding some infectious boy-girl folk pop ( `Ooh Boy', `Rigamaroo') and some compelling sonic curveballs that keep the listener guessing to the finish. Far from a study of hairy rock esoterica, Sleepy Sun makes light work of what could have been an exercise in ear-punishing psych.
Opener `Marina' swings between desert rawk - all rattlesnakes and dust-bowl harmonica - and blissful folksiness before a total flip of script arrives in the form of swampy tribal rhythms and chanting that sounds like a New Age take on gospel. Perhaps it shouldn't work but somehow it does.
There is something faintly Espers about the folk pop of `Rigamaroo', while `Wild Machines' sets a slightly hokey scene by chucking in some Ennio Morricone whistling into a sonic mêlée that includes preposterously monstrous riffage. Elsewhere there is a desert sunrise comedown (the appropriately titled `Acid Love'), peyote-noir ('Open Eyes') and a hint of protest on the scattershot rhythms of `Freedom Line'.
Yet the highlight of the album is surely `Desert God', which shimmers into view like an improbable mirage. All heavily reverbed psyche-blues, it repeats the opening track's total wind-change with a thumping harmonica breakbeat of sorts before some delightfully squiggly guitar solos.
Fans of, say, Spiritualised and Brightback Morning Light should enjoy 'Fever'; it may even suit fans of My Morning Jacket's expansive early albums, albeit relocated from humid Kentucky to breezier Laurel Canyon. Recommended. First published at The Line of Best Fit.
Opener `Marina' swings between desert rawk - all rattlesnakes and dust-bowl harmonica - and blissful folksiness before a total flip of script arrives in the form of swampy tribal rhythms and chanting that sounds like a New Age take on gospel. Perhaps it shouldn't work but somehow it does.
There is something faintly Espers about the folk pop of `Rigamaroo', while `Wild Machines' sets a slightly hokey scene by chucking in some Ennio Morricone whistling into a sonic mêlée that includes preposterously monstrous riffage. Elsewhere there is a desert sunrise comedown (the appropriately titled `Acid Love'), peyote-noir ('Open Eyes') and a hint of protest on the scattershot rhythms of `Freedom Line'.
Yet the highlight of the album is surely `Desert God', which shimmers into view like an improbable mirage. All heavily reverbed psyche-blues, it repeats the opening track's total wind-change with a thumping harmonica breakbeat of sorts before some delightfully squiggly guitar solos.
Fans of, say, Spiritualised and Brightback Morning Light should enjoy 'Fever'; it may even suit fans of My Morning Jacket's expansive early albums, albeit relocated from humid Kentucky to breezier Laurel Canyon. Recommended. First published at The Line of Best Fit.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A gloriously kaleidoscopic and schizophrenic album this. Initially bewildering, this seemingly crazy amalgamation of earth-splitting, reverb-heavy, psychedelic rock - all woozy guitars and power jams - delicate acoustic folk, soaring harmonies and dustbowl blues gradually coalesces into something unexpectedly rather beautiful.
At times like the theme to a long-forgotten spaghetti western, other times recalling the likes of Black Mountain, The Grateful Dead and even Fleetwood Mac, this is remarkably panoramic music that surprises and delights at every turn. It's often joyously over the top, some of the acid-rock wig-outs bordering on the uncontrolled, but at the same time it is those longer jams, notably "Sandstorm Woman", "Marina" "Wild Machines" and "Desert God" that are the most effective, conjuring up potent visual images and evoking the barren desert imagery to spectacular effect, coruscating in and out of focus like a mirage.
Original and impressive.
At times like the theme to a long-forgotten spaghetti western, other times recalling the likes of Black Mountain, The Grateful Dead and even Fleetwood Mac, this is remarkably panoramic music that surprises and delights at every turn. It's often joyously over the top, some of the acid-rock wig-outs bordering on the uncontrolled, but at the same time it is those longer jams, notably "Sandstorm Woman", "Marina" "Wild Machines" and "Desert God" that are the most effective, conjuring up potent visual images and evoking the barren desert imagery to spectacular effect, coruscating in and out of focus like a mirage.
Original and impressive.
Format:Audio CD
Fever is an enjoyable second record from California's Sleepy Sun. And whilst it's certainly a grower, it's a fairly strong record in the vein of Wolf People, Graveyard and most notably Black Mountain.
The only problem being is these guys at times sound SO much like Black Mountain it may confuse people as the male/female vocal delivery is almost identical.
I'm sure I'm not the only person to have noticed these similarities.
The only problem being is these guys at times sound SO much like Black Mountain it may confuse people as the male/female vocal delivery is almost identical.
I'm sure I'm not the only person to have noticed these similarities.
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