San Francisco stoner-rockers crawl sun-blind from Spacemen 3’s shadow.
California’s Bay Area has latterly reinvigorated its late-60s heritage as Mecca for exploratory psychedelic rock, with free-jamming nutjobs such as Sun Araw and Carlton Melton once more turning on, tuning in, but most importantly dropping the kind of far-out and mind-expanding recordings no-one could rightly claim to have heard before.
San Francisco’s Wooden Shjips have made more headway on this side of the Atlantic than most, with a slightly more conventional, even earthbound variant. It combines The Seeds’ garage caveman thud, krautrock’s locked-groove hypnosis and, most obviously to Brit ears, Spacemen 3’s ethereally-voiced pulsations.
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Bron: BBC Music