Great record! Borrows from all sorts of influences, but really great original sounds and fresh offerings. It balances the psychedelic, the jamband, the almost prog (sample track 5) with some gentler ballads (track 9). It's a textured pleasure that you should download now! And see them live too - they really stretch out and fill a room.
I think these guys might break the Jam Band mold. Deep grooves with bluesy guitar and psychedelic vocals. Loved this one from the first time I heard it.
Easily one of the best albums of 2011. It has some great retro lineage (Zepplin and Jethro Tull) but plenty of original 21st century zing to it as well. No two songs sound like they're even from the same band yet they play together amazingly well. I could listen to it all day and not get board with it.
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
