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MicShazam

To me, this had elements of 60's and 70's folk music as well as post-punk of a certain, melodic bent (here made quite a bit more laid back) and even a hint or two of Hendrix.
A few moments struck me as drawing connections to something far more modern, but I couldn't place it.
Generally, this album sounded quite good. How nice it were when the full sounding, warm bass guitar crept in during the opening moments of the album! I was afraid this would be yet another borderline shrill sounding rock album of the sort that bores and annoys me.

The songwriting on this album is quite memorable, despite said laid-backness, and the music feels fairly varied and fully realized. It's a very melodic album, although with a lazy afternoon feeling to it that, on a few occasions, threatened to stretch simple arrangements out to the point of being dull. However, the album thankfully never quite shoots itself in the foot and the worst parts of the album were still decent listening, if not exactly riveting.

To me, the piece de resistance of the album is the song Trad. 8+ minutes of involving, atmospheric music with some nice, memorable ideas floating about. The final song of the album, Cardigan Song, was my least favorite by some distance - especially during the closing moments. Whistling almost never sounds good in a song, and it didn't really here either.

Worst thing about the album: The vocals fit the atmosphere and don't ruin anything for me, but I was really listening to the music, since nothing ever happens on the vocal side of things. Kind of a non-entity, aside from some light emotional texturing, so to speak.
Best thing about the album: All of the folky melodies. The song Trad.

Voted "liked it".

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Neapolitan

I've seen where the bands name translate to be "Geometric Patterns." That is a pretty cool name. I like a few Japanese bands, and I was looking forward to listen to this album. However after a few tracks in I noticed they didn't wow me like a few other Japanese bands I could think of.

I've seen where they're called Psychedelic band. Why? Their style is more like Reverby Indie, or what ever the appropriate sub-genre name would be, which isn't a negative thing in itself. It not a real 60s Psychedelia sound, it a 2010s version of it. With a copy of a copy of copy you start to loose definition and detail. This to me is more of a Reverby Indie sound than a faithful homage to Psychedelia. Perhaps it's more like an amalgamation of the Reverby Indie sound and the style of modern Psychedelic and Psych-Folk bands.

That being said, I like most Psychedelia, both old and new. And I am not of the opinion that cause I listen to both famous and obscure Psychedelic bands I would rather listen to the "real thing" as if modern bands are somehow subpar. I don't poo poo a band cause they have a retro sound. I don't mind if a band has the same sound of another band that is a contemporary of theirs either provided whatever they do, they do it well.

Green Sugar starts off the same way a 70s Rock band would end a song. The intro is literally an outro. ... and oh how I wish the album was over at that point. So after this "outro" intro it switches to a pseudo-Psychedelic sound, with a bass riff that reminds of something Kevin Parker bass line. Dune was another song that has a Kevin Parker bass line, and another song that I didn't like.

Fata Morgana starts out approximately like Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Ray. However instead of using a real sitar like in they use a guitar pedal. (That's neither here nor there, just an observation.)

The whole album was a tug-of-war of things I like and didn't like. There are moments I really like. I think 'oh that is a nice melody.' However I came across things I didn't care for. Some songs had very repetitive guitar parts. The bass playing (imo) was a poor imitation of Kevin Parker bass lines. Those minuses were like speed bumps that kept it from being a smooth ride. Once the bassline to Green Sugar and Dune start became cliché it then became bothersome and that was a hurtle I could get over. Those two songs tanked the album for me.

I compared this album to Chris Knox' alum and I like the latter better. Now whether this is an album that would grow on me I really don't know. This would be the kind of album if I came across it on YouTube related videos I would listen for a few and then move on to find something else.

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Quite a lot to like here: I know these guys did some shows at one point with Acid Mothers Temple, and having gone through this album I can see why. There's a winding, enjoyable meandering quality to their folk-inflected revisionist psychedelic musings, an openness to the arrangements that's refreshing. There's very little here I didn't like: in fact, it might come close to a 10/10 for me if there was some flute or some Canterbury Scene acidic Hammond organ in the mix (as Caravan and Camel were prone to using on their early 70's output).

Let's go with a 9 out of 10.

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Psy-Fi

I've been digging this album since I first heard it around six months ago. A near perfect psych-rock/folk blend of the old and the new. It sounds old without sounding retro, it sounds familiar without sounding copycat, it sounds new without losing the right vibe.
I have no idea what the lyrics are about but it doesn't matter because the vocals fit into the music beautifully, effortlessly, and just seem to enhance the overall sound and feel of the album. I liked this one so much that I took the time to listen to everything else the band has recorded so far and even bought tickets to see them play a show near me next month. Always a treat to stumble across a new band and be blown away by what I hear.
Not sure if this one is quite a 10 but I think it's pretty damn close, anyway.

9/10

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