OFF: AI Staff Picks for Best of 2013

[Jerry G]

On 1/2/2014 3:46 PM, Keith Henderson wrote:
> JGJ sed...
>
>> Just picked up Electric Eye, Cambrian Explosion,
>   Kikagaku Moyo from your list :) and Rovo and System 7 from Jeffs'. Grabbed
>   Domovoyd,  Sophies Earthquake and The Cosmic Dead split from Scott's
>   blog. Threw a few on my wishlist. I have most of Jerry's list, but have
>   to add Census of Hallucinations to my collection.
>
> That's awesome.  You made good choices.  Yeah, the Electric Eye one caught me by total surprise.  It was so excellently made in addition to being cool psychedelic songwriting.  But I guess they've all been in other somewhat successful bands, just not in this exact genre, so I wouldn't have known who they were beforehand.  Kinda like Nik's cobbled together Space Gypsy band, that turned out to be a great blanga backing band.  Anyway, Electric Eye has kind of a Spaceman 3/Spiritualized sort of vibe going on, as well as the powerpsych rock element.  And then Tangerine sounds like a ripoff of Tea Party* ripping off Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, and then given the track title, maybe it's no wonder.
>
>>   A big thanks for the links :)
>
> My pleasure.  Now I have to start on 2014 music!
>
> Keith H.
>
> * Are they still going?  If not, what's Jeff Martin doing nowadays?  Anybody in our Toronto contingent up on them?

   The last I saw, they were supposed to be releasing an album early this
year (according to http://www.jeffmartin777.com/ ).

   A few in my current playlist that I didn't see on any
lists: :)

http://brimstonecoven.bandcamp.com/album/ii
http://wehuntbuffalo.bandcamp.com/album/blood-from-a-stone
http://haggard.bandcamp.com/album/various-stages-of-ice
http://grasshopperhq.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors-of-the-mind
http://consecration.bandcamp.com/album/univerzum-zna
http://motherdust.bandcamp.com/album/volume-3
http://tuber.bandcamp.com/album/desert-overcrowded

Jerry