01. Clouds Went That Way 4:13
02. Good Clues 2:54
03. Obscure Preferences 2:33
04. Please Don't Die 3:19
05. Cyclops Eye 4:11
06. Bounce Four 3:04
07. Healthy Living 2:44
08. Grown In Shells 3:45
09. Eye In The Sky 4:15
10. Edge Of Mess 4:24
11. Hope For The Future 3:01
UK edition including an extra track
It is amazing how far the outer boundaries psychedelic music have
spread over the past forty three years. At this point, unless you're
listening to something pretty lame, psychedelic music has burrowed
itself in just about every corner of rock'n'roll music, from the
raggedness of Roky Erickson back in the mid-60s to the meandering fuzz
drone of the more contemporary acts like Wooden Shjips. When an act
comes along such as Gary War that seems to conjure the ever-changing
zeitgeist of psychedelia out of the ether, it's remarkable. His songs
not only pay homage to the bands that have brought us to these
crossroads over the past half of a decade, but they also seem to walk
us through a sound scape of styles, and in the process, Gary War carved
out his spot in the ageless catalog of psychedelic music
Gary War, the mysterious upstart from Brooklyn, NY has just released
his debut LP this winter on SHDWPLY/DISARO Records. Playing with vast
sweeping echoes, softly sung lyrics, and infusing sonic textures
through synth-driven overtures, Gary War's album, New Raytheonport
takes us through the often banal sonics of the psychedelic form with a
fresh take on what seems at first, an aggregate of the past couple of
decades of drug-influenced music, and drops us dead center, at the
doorstep to La La Land. His tonal insobriety, from one song to the next
is a true sign of the times, where artists are driven to explore
different avenues, melding genres, vocal styles and instrumentation to
arrive somewhere new, all the while taking the listener along for the
ride. Pulling from influences that hold as much up to Chrome as they do
Syd Barret, Gary War is able to wrangle them from every corner, and he
even covers The Alan Parsons Project without sounding misguided,or a
late arriving hippie on a hotbox high. Instead, Gary War creates a
sound that wisps through the knobby branches of the past and
sumptuously uproots our notions of the boundaries of psychedelia
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