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Blueberry Pancake
"Heavy" CD
Shadoks
Music
Genres: psych, acid rock, blues psych
Normal Records
PO Box 150 117
53040 Bonn
Germany
Aug 4 - 10 2003 |
Fresh
Blueberry Pancake was a Pittsburgh band who existed from 1968 to
1972, taking the time to record only one demo album. This demo album
has since become quite coveted by psych and acid rock collectors, as
only 54 copies of it were pressed. It seems the record was never
released to the public, instead it was a small-scale promo release
that never really succeeded.
Listening to this fancy new CD reissue of the ill-fated demo on
German label Shadoks Music, it's hard to see where they went wrong.
Perhaps the problem with FHP was that they couldn't stick to
one style. Over the duration of these nine songs, the band flies
through heavy Blue Cheer-style acid rock ("Hassles",
"Clown On A Rope"), bluesy psych-rock ("Being In
Town" and the brilliant "Where's The Sun"), and even a
bit of folk-rock ("Bad Boy Turns Good"). The music is of
very high quality, in both recording quality and in a songwriting
sense. The band have a very nice sound. They can master heavy, crusty
acid rock just as easily as they can flow through more melodic
folk-rock and blues-pop numbers. It all just sounds great and
perfectly done.
Overall, this is a very enjoyable, accessible artifact of the
sixties generation that will appeal to both collectors and casual
listeners. Recommended.
87%
Matt Shimmer
[Vitals: 9 tracks, distributed by Forced
Exposure, released 2003] |
