In last year's Issue I reviewed their debut Heart
Of Stone EP, and I found it really cool and a well-worth try, getting impatient
for their full album. So, here it is, a full length LP with 12 songs (6 on each
side) by this Thessalonian quintet. The band moves in the same
garage-punk-a-little-psych vein that they introduced with their EP. Side A
opens with a wonderful combination of fuzzy-wah guitars and hot harmonica solos
entitled “Wrong”. The vocals throughout this song and through the whole record
are really ‘buried’. Is it consciously made this way by the band or
did something go wrong during the recording/mixing procedure? “Wise
Man” is a slow, almost torturous fuzzy tune while “Travel Every Night” is a
short aggressive garagey Pebble. “I Don’t Want You No More” sets everything to
fire, a fast one punky-fuzzy-yeah-yeah organ driven dynamite with even more
buried vocals. The moody “Stray Mood” follows while side closes with “Im Dead”
a literally endless melodic but full of fuzz garage anthem. Side B opens with
“What’s Going On”, farfisa organ sound on the foreground and the fuzzy dirty
guitar atmosphere on the background, with an excellent use of the harmonica.
“Go Away” is a typical 60s fuzzy shake, while “I Wanna Come Back” lacks of
fuzz, but has a beautiful organ oriented sound with nice backing vocals. “She
Put Me Down” brings back the fuzz and the buried vocals too. The last two
tracks are my favourites. Maybe because the guys leave themselves to
experiment… “Run Away Run” and “Hands On Time” are brilliant
examples of modern 60s psych-garage! Well, after quite a few listens, I
understood what Lenny Helsing is trying to say on the back cover when he is
talking about an “ongoing party fuelled by the cacophonous fuzz-buzz
jet-roar”. It’s their choice to sound dirty. After all, how many ‘clean’
basements do you know?…TimeLord
Michalis
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