The Quarter After

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 55:00

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A rejuvenation of sorts...

NSPDave

The euphoric feeling experienced when I first heard REM's "Chronic Town" and The Jayhawks "Hollywood Town Hall" some decades ago... There isn't too much currently out there that gave me much hope that such feelings would ever again take place. I'm very glad I was wrong. These guys are that good.

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Resurrecting the sound of West Coast psychedelia

TheHypnoticBridge

With the Quarter After, Rob, Dominic and crew have tapped into a rich vein of golden Californian psych, perfectly updated for our times. The Byrdsian groove that permeates their sound is like a lovely warm blanket of grooviness wrapped around your shoulders on a crisp autumn night.

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Dr Byrd Meets The Buffalo

Poppahayden

For those looking for re-incarnations of the original Five Byrds and The Buffalo Springfield. Look no farther This and its follow-up album, "Changes Near" are the real thing. The spirit of Gene Clark hovers over this work.

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cool band

beanstarr

never heard of them until emusic, thanks for having music that is not overly played on the radio

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Between them, singing brothers Dominic Campanella and Rob Campanella have been at least an adjunct member of just about every band in the axis between the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Beachwood Sparks and the Tyde. Unsurprisingly, the self-titled debut by their own band works that circa-’67 L.A. sound, with heavy echoes of the pre-David Axelrod the Electric Prunes, Buffalo Springfield, and various other half-forgotten exemplars of the sound, minimizing the country-rock inflections of Beachwood Sparks (only notable on the Neil Young-like “Mirror to You”) or much of the slightly unhinged experimentalism of the the Brian Jonestown Massacre. For a little less than half of the album, the brothers, along with bassist David Koenig and drummer Nelson Bragg, do a pretty good pastiche of Sunset Strip psychedelia, kicking up a particularly lysergic head of steam on the self-explanatory “One Trip Later.” The problem is that the other half of the album, nearly a full thirty minutes, consists of three endless acid-guitar jams that don’t justify their overextended length; the most frustrating one is the nine-minute “Taken,” which cooks up a good old-fashioned freight train momentum and then blows it on a flaccid and seemingly endless solo. At about four-and-a-half minutes, it would be the best song on the album, but at nine-minutes-and-16-seconds, it’s a prime candidate for the forward skip button. With an editor and a bit more emphasis on Love than the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Quarter After may really have something. – Stewart Mason

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