Crosses
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Label: Sumerian Records
Genre: Rock / Pop
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<p>Morgan cites influences from Curt Boettcher to West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band<br />and rounds it out with golden age sunset stRip heavies like The Byrds and Love. It ’s all in<br />there; obsessively studied, mastered and then mutated. Side one opens with the<br />one/two punch of ‘Make My Grey Brain Green’ and ‘Barbarian Kings’ blasting apart<br />40 years of pop-psych and stitching it back together in a way that is both familiar but<br />also refreshingly new. ‘Beneath the Black and Purple’ soars with a chiming guitar<br />grumble right out of ‘8 Miles High.’’ & “Chakra Sharks” squirms it ’s way out of the speakers like a snake - oiled up with the stink of not only what came before, but what ’s<br />happening NOW. The drums pound hard & heavy, while the backups “la-la-la” all over<br />your noggin like a Frankenstein version of The Flaming Lips & Thee Oh Sees. Each track<br />worms it ’s way into your brain and takes hold.</p>
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<p>The finale ‘Main Title Sequence’, is all Stu Phillips-worship, right out of the soundtrack to<br />your favorite 60’s cult classic with it ’s angelic backing vocals and lilting tremolo lead<br />but somehow still buzzes with a modern current. As Morgan so keenly described his<br />notion on the current state of genre bending music “I think we’ve become unstuck in<br />time and everything is going to happen all at once from now on.”</p>
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