Saturday, July 21, 2007

Dart [1970]

Garagy lounge rock with guitar/organ/bass/drums and original songs. Interestingly it is on the same private label as the rare New Dawn psych LP and was produced by the same guy. Opens with a tuff soulrocker "Don't Cry No More", then a straight up garagy track with organ and fuzz titled "Always Leaving, Always Gone", then a gushy organ groover titled "Love Is A Chain", and much of the LP has that gushy groovy organ vibe. Two tracks have horns on them. Recording sound is very similar to New Dawn (like the non-psych songs on side two of that LP...this is lounge garage, not psych here) but it's good at the bag. I'd say 2/3 of the LP is cool tracks, a few snoozers. Nifty cover pic of them in ruffled shirts and purple jackets. I think I once had another LP by them where they have paisley shirts, if I recall...this is different to that one. Anyways, it's a gem for garagy loungeband rock. [PM]

The paisley LP is 'Presenting' on the Garland label. [ed]

No comments: