Adjustable Mustard – Your Love

 

 

Adjustable Mustard – Your Love
Self-released – 2024
Rock, Psych, Folk, Fuzz
Rated: ****

It’s all happening! After releasing their two-track single Pure Love back in March, the Adjustable Mustard duo is back with a four track EP called Your Love. Which starts, with the wonderful, sixties and sunny, Haight-Ashbury longing, blissfully groovy Pure Love (Oh). Conjuring up inner-eyelid secret fantasies about summertime in hippie paradise. Oh man, was I born in the wrong era. It’s the one song that has a third player on the track, for the keys on Pure Love (Oh) are delivered by Ryan Dishen. But everything else, all instruments are performed by Katie Pitts and Will White. Who met many moons ago, connected as fellow musicians, fell in love, got married and deliver their fuzz filled psych rock with a special kind of groove. We can’t stress enough how wonderfully good spirited and soulful these tracks are. Third one minute and thirteen seconds long acoustic track Change Gonna Come delivers acceptance and that hope that was so alive and bulbous back in the sixties when the collective energy of an entire generation seemed on the brink of changing the world forever, and it does so in a disarming and pure loving way. And with everything going on across the globe, there is no denying the fact that we need to have that once again. We hope… One day… Second track Bang Bang, bangs, sizzles, pops and mirrors the groove of opener Pure Love (Oh). Turning that guitar sound with its distorted fuzz into a Ferris wheel of determination and euphoria. Especially when that second layer takes it all to glorious heights. The key work giving the entire composition an extra kaleidoscopic touch. Of course, I will forever search what instrument might be responsible for the little clank sound at the eighteen seconds mark. Five and a half minutes long closing track Grave Blanket is the darkest and doomiest one of the Your Love EP. It colors the entre Your Love EP in a different shade, giving off the air that even though we can hope for and want that sunny pure love, people will be people and hope is easily shattered. A slow and windswept blues opening, the dragging drums, setting the scene, slightly mysterious, breathing an almost Lynchian atmosphere which languidly continues throughout the song. With just the perfect amount of key work and vocals to jostle the song along towards an equally graceful ending. With Your Love, the Adjustable Mustard duo delivers four songs that shine in modesty, and hidden in that musical humility you can hear the  pure musicianship that courses through their veins… And heart…

(Written by JK)

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