Beachwood Sparks - Desert Skies CD (Mega Blowout Sale)
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18-CD-ALIVE-0154
“Previously unreleased debut album by LA-based cosmic country-rock combo the Beachwood Sparks. The album includes their first 1998 single, as well as never-heard before recordings, all carefully remastered. A must-have for fans of the band, and for Southern California psychedelic pop lovers everywhere.”
"Even at this early date Chris Gunst, Dave Scher, Brent Rademaker, and Aaron Sperke express a preternatural gift for melody and harmony. Each track leads the listener by the hand as the band tries on elements that would eventually coalesce into the unified Beachwood Sparks sound. Album opener “Desert Skies” is a straightforward country-rocker with plaintive, sad-sack vocals and the keening guitar tone of the Flying Burrito Brothers, while “Watery Moonlight” is a driving, psychedelic rocker a with rollicking organ riff and a sweet-tasting melody reminiscent of The Zombies. On Desert Skies the group is much looser. In 'This is What it Feels Like,' the tight pop hook of the song’s first half unravels into a space-rock jam-out by the time the 4:41 run time concludes. Similarly, album stand-out 'Sweet Julie Ann' opens with a delicate melody that wouldn’t sound out of place on Elliott Smith tracks recorded around the same time, but augmented with passages of wild psychedelic rock."-consequence
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