Pools

Prettiest Eyes is the sci-fi Puerto Rican-Mexican-via-L.A. space-punk trio—including lead vocalist and drummer Pachy Garcia, bassist Marcos Rodriguez and keyboardist/electronics manipulator/vocalist Paco Casanova. Prettiest Eyes make crazed, paranoid psych, the kind that sounds like climbing the walls (in a good way). The searing atonalism on Pools is equal parts narcotic invocation, and dissociated garage punk. I suppose some will call it art-rock but that would assign to it an intellectual connotation far removed from its beastly physicality.

FCC: 11

Like: Creation Factory, Flat Worms, Campo-Formio, Sextile

Play: 1, 2, 5, 8

1.Don't Call (3:30) - Cosmic noise garage.
2.Mira Nena (3:13) - Psychedelic proto-punk from the future.
3.Pools (3:24) - Outwardly paranoid psych-punk.
4.No Hands Pete (3:19) - Slow tempo, dark zombie marching band.
5.Dandy (2:26) - Pure 70’s garage with a space-y touch.
6.Untitled (2:52) - Dissociated garage punk.
7.See Saw (4:43) - Monstrous bass, keys and vocals from another dimension.
8.Gold Snake (2:56) - Weird punk, disengaged but wicked.
9.Let Me Touch (3:10) - Dirty science fiction, dark and beautiful.
10.Prance (2:18) - Sleazy, sludgy, psychedelic, garage punk rock.
11.Uncut (3:18) - Industrial, post-punk from space.
12.A Sweet Song (5:30) - Psychedelic melodies of the mid 1960s.