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.
4 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.
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