About 25 years ago, NYCD had put together a modest but potent power pop and psych section in the shop. We were ordering from Not Lame, a label you might have heard of, on a regular basis, and we had a decent amount of customers who would take chances on relatively obscure CDs by bands like Wanderlust, Tubetop, and Rockfour, an Israeli rock and psych band, among many others.
I had not thought about Rockfour since their 2000 release "Supermarket," but thanks to my Todd Rundgren group, I was sent a copy of their new record, "Rockfour Playing Syd Barrett."
It's only March, but this record will be at the top of my list of year's best.
Two things:
It's not just a covers record. These are not note for note replicas.
And...
I don't believe you need to be a Syd Barrett fan to dig what's going on here. As a matter of fact, I believe if you're not a Syd Barrett fan, you will become one after one pass of this very exciting collection of tunes.
7 comments:
Diggin' the Syd remakes. And I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed the Dolenz REM covers.
I've had this on my to-listen list. An album of Syd Barrett covers is hard to resist for "didn't know I needed this" music.
I was about halfway through my first listen and then found your post. I like that the arrangements are different enough from the originals, especially when they mix in some middle eastern instruments.
- Paul in DK
Liked the SOTD. Put the album in the queue, looks interesting.
Nice! Sounds like a nice corollary to Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets touring band and their live record and boots ... love it that songs of that era (and shortly afterwards, in the case of the NMSoS project) are getting heard again, in new ways.
GREAT! Tks…
Another great find! SOTD and Cover, too!
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