Quiet Confusion – Magella

 

 

Quiet Confusion – Magella
Go Down Records – 2022
Rock, Blues, Psych, Stoner, Garage
Rated: *****

It’s funky! It is funky! The new blues rocking, stoner bopping, Quiet Confusion album Magella. The three from Verona, Italy have been rocking out since 2009. And those thirteen years of experience are definitely audible on the eight new tracks of riveting free rock. Channeling that seventies electricity the thirty five minutes of Magella will undoubtedly give you some Delta flashbacks and some garage shivers, but it’s mostly powering through on freak out psych rock and stoner rumbling. All of which are of course ingredients of style and panache. Just like that smashing wild opener Long Wave; if you don’t start running, and jumping, fingers waving towards the sky like a madman down the streets towards the nearest watering hole. I don’t know what will. Did we mention yet that it’s funky? Funky as hell and with that tempo, those roaring guitars, those almost haphazardly sung lyrics; it really is the perfect soundtrack for the start of a wild summer’s even out on the town. There’s so much of Quiet Confusion's own signature across the sound that it even feels wrong to point out certain reference points. The boogie and groove on Plastic Man, so glowingly soulful. A bluesy dragger that you feel will explode once the Lady In Blue sets its hooks in you. Virtuoso yet so simple Wastin Time; that with an extra loud or heavy rendition live will turn the crowd into one massive jumping and dancing tsunami. I think we’ve made it abundantly clear now that Quiet Confusion has delivered an extremely delicious album… Especially for summer days and hot and sweaty nights!  

(Written by JK)

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