Single Review of 'New Wave Hippies' by Psychedelic Horseshit.
Matt (Sing,guitars) and Rich (Drums,shoes) from Columbus, Ohio are "The Shit", a duo world Health Organization have spent much of their formative years patently listening to the art rock of early Sonic Youth and coveting the dishevellment of Beck.
It would be easy to dismiss New Wave Hippies as a joke - it opens with a mercifully brief cod-reggae jam (Dub Gaze) and closes with a demo quality krautrock collage (Magick Defends Itself Pt. 3) - whilst in between on that point are squalls of misdirected feedback and song writing so brittle a dozen year old wouldn't devastate it on their MySpace. Of sole interest is the claim track, which sounds vaguely like a roughed up Suicide and contains the magic
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Psychedelic Horseshit, New Wave Hippies Single Review
