Snake Flower 2 - Renegade Daydream

Genre: Garage, Psychedelic, Punk
Year: 2008
Label: Tic Tac Totally
Who: Matthew M. Melton, Johnny Axe, Carlos Bermudez
Where: Chicago
Like: Trippin down murdermile in a white '68 mustang convertible decked in suede
Rating: 6.5/10

Compare to: Bare Wires, Jay Reatard, Blank Dogs, Wizzard Sleeve, Honkeyfinger, Nothing People

Snake Flower 2's debut album, Renegade Daydream, is a dream scape of novelty garage punk with a twang of psych influence. Its like getting punched in the face by your lover followed by a subsequent blood filled rusty booze fest. This is without a doubt a ten track lamb of an audio treat. So genuinely rock.

Choice Track: Set You Straight


1. Flight of the Navigator
2. Talk About It
3. I Woke Up In a Dream
4. Snake Girl
5. No Way Home
6. Just a Dreamer
7. Younger Daze
8. Face in the Crowd
9. Set You Straight
10. Not This Time



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Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin

Genre: Psychedelic, Ambient Blues, Folk
Year: 2008
Label: Matador
Who: Rachael Hughes, Nathan Shineywater, Paz Lenchantin,
Andy Macleod, Ann McCrary, Elias Reitz, Gail West
Where: New Mexico
Like: Heroin
Rating: 9/10

Compare to: Hypnotism

Great Band. Great Sound. Great Tonal Continuum. Great Sophomore Release. Yet again, I am thrust into uncontrollable waves of chills where I throw my head back and roll my eyes as if I'm falling into an extremely dense cloud of sexiness.
"I was not singing for war, but to engage the spirit of the maker of the arrowhead itself, to offer up Peace, that his warrior effort find a new respect, and to help my own warrior spirit sing in Peace," reveals Naybob (Nathan Shineywater if you please).
If you haven't heard of this seductively entrancing collective then jump on the mothafuckin train. Here it is, Motion to Rejoin.

Choice Tracks: Gathered Years, Past a Weatherbeaten Fencepost

1. Introduction
2. Hologram Buffalo
3. Gathered Years
4. Oppressions Each
5. Another Reclaimation
6. A Rainbow Aims
7. Summer Hoof
8. Past a Weatherbeaten Forecast
9. When Beads Spell Power Leaf



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