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* Shoegaze * Indie * Post-rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Ambient * Ethereal *
Artist..: Morgan Delt
Album...: Morgan Delt
GENRE....: Psychedelic Rock
STYLE....:
LABEL....: Trouble Mind SCENE.....: 2015-11-19
BITRATE..: 240 kbps avg STORE.....: 2014-00-00
ENCODER..: LAME 3.98.4 -V0 TRACKS....: 11
SIZE.....: 56.74MB SOURCE....: CD
URL..: http://www.facebook.com/morgandeltmusic
- TRACKLIST
1 Make My Grey Brain Green 2:50
2 Barbarian Kings 3:53
3 Beneath the Black and Purple 3:09
4 Mr. Carbon Copy 2:52
5 Obstacle Eyes 3:27
6 Little Zombies 3:14
7 Chakra Sharks 1:37
8 Sad Sad Trip 3:38
9 Backwards Bird Inc. 3:56
10 Tropicana 2:08
11 Main Title Sequence 2:01
Total Playtime: 32:45
By all accounts, Morgan Delt is a normal enough guy, living in Los Angeles
probably with a cat and the same need to pay the bills as the rest of us.
Still, if one were to judge by the sound of his debut self-titled album
released in 2014 by the fine folks at Trouble in Mind, it might seem like Mr.
Delt was flash-frozen in 1967 while in the process of making his own version
of "Strawberry Fields Forever" or "My White Bicycle," then only recently
thawed out. It has all the trippy elegance of the former and all the phased
hookiness of the latter, while adding a bedroom-crafted intimacy that is the
only aspect of the record that dates it as a modern production. While the
album sounds like a note-perfect take on psych pop from start to finish that
was crafted by someone who owns at least a wall full of Nuggets, Pebbles, and
Rubble compilations, it also benefits from Delt's knack for catchy
songwriting. A lot of people have done the same kind of excavation and
restoration work he has, but few have done it as memorably. Almost no one has
done it with songs as good as these. Tracks like the undulating "Mr. Carbon
Copy," the rampaging "Chakra Sharks," and the sunny with a chance of
weirdness "Obstacle Eyes" sound amazing with their period finery, but would
be just as nice stripped down and done in a more sedate fashion. Best of them
all are the songs that could be slotted in on a late-'60s psych comp and not
only fit in, but be highlights. Songs like the seriously melted with a giant
chorus "Barbarian Kings" and the brilliantly arranged "Make My Grey Brain
Green" would make the Pretty Things' brains green with envy and would make
almost any fan of this kind of music incredibly happy. Delt may be a normal
guy; he may have traveled through time with a stop to steal Faine Jade's
(look him up!) soul. Regardless of how he came to make Morgan Delt, it was
all worth it because this is timeless psychedelic music of the highest
quality imaginable.
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P.S.
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