Snake Mountain Revival – Everything In Sight

 

 

Snake Mountain Revival – Everything In Sight
Rebel Waves / Ripple Music / Deckhead Records – 2021
Rock, Psych, Wave, Noir, Stoner
Rated: *****

One of the most spun albums the past month is without any doubt Snake Mountain Revival’s Everything In Sight. When the promo came in through Ripple Music or perhaps it was Purple Sage PR, it did not immediately grab me. Cause we cannot state enough how much great and heavy music comes in daily, and sometimes at certain times, an album does not have the energy you are looking for at that moment in time in the world, whatever that may mean. But when we revisited the album, and those first three tracks rolled by and were already slowly weaving into my brain, like the seductive ghosts that they are, it was the fourth track that did the trick… Graveyard Grove came on and relentlessly hammered its enchanting beauty into my heart. It reminded of another song, but that is of no issue here, for the dark, the noir, the dusty atmosphere, the story told and the way the rhythm moved and moved me, it impressed the hell out of me and made one hell of an impression. It of course went on repeat for a couple of times. The vocals, the lyrics, haunting and chased, so perfectly executed. It might be viewed as the prized song on the album. But then again there are many more. And we only recently found out that most of the album was already released on two EP’s. How did we miss that? (We perhaps did, but Shasta Beast didn’t!) We then returned to the beginning and started it all properly; and got struck by the desert rocking baseball bat that is Satellite Ritual. With a Chris Goss atmosphere, the spacy, the surfy, psych and wave noir propels you forward. Something eerie, something spooky, it’s ever-present with the Snake Mountain Revival three. Sonically rounded out, the tracks keep this reverberating echo going through the album and there is as much psychedelic craziness around as there is subdued and tranquil peace. All of it will want to make you dive into the wind and swim with its current. It will turn you on and tune you in… And Everything will be In Sight…

(Written by JK)

Bandcamp

Facebook

Instagram

Ripple Music

Rebel Waves

Number 17

 

 

Number 17

An album that jumped into the Top 20 thanks to those final lists that were sent during the final night and on the final morning before the final deadline passed. Jumping enough to settle 20 points above those three we found on Number 18. A band that many voted for and many lists featured it high on their list; but as mentioned before the Number 15 to 40 are all pretty close together in comparison to what comes later and before. So anyway, those last few lists, made it reach the Top 20… Their 2018 record got spun to an incredibly degree over here and the new one just improves on every aspect of that record. With eastern and world influences their psychedelic folk rock often leaves you breathless and giddy with joy; that in a world that seems to be burning at both ends, a release like this can be so uplifting and delightful. The melancholy that might be present on a track or two gets powered over by those sixties and seventies inspired grooves, the wide open atmosphere and that bright shimmering light at the end of the tunnel. No more tea for me please, just put this record on as pick me up and feel the warmth blow away all that negative energy and that cold winter spirit… And by sheer coincidence (cause that is how the Great Magnet rolls) the honorable JJ Koczan put up a review of the album on The Obelisk this very day… On Number 17 we find! 

Arcadian Child – Protopsycho

 

Bandcamp

Facebook

Rebel Waves Records

Ripple Music

Kozmik Artifactz