Imajinary Friends, The

Dripping w reverb these locals sprang from loins of all your favorite local new Psych and tripped out exotica. Wooden Shjips, Can, Neu, spring to mind as well, a complete psych SF freak fest, swirling and fuzzy and mostly tripping balls. Mostly instrumental, this is just what the doctor ordered (Dr Timothy Leary that is). A welcome release after a 15 year hiatus, this is loosely defined collective of sorts involving lots of local folks with vast connections to all things good. Bandcamp:”The core 3 are Tim Digulla (one half of Lounge/Exotica/Electronica duo Tipsy,) Ricky Maymi (current guiterrorist & founding member of The Brian Jonestown Massacre; he also played with Mellow Drunk, Spectrum, The Wild Swans and Steve Kilbey, among many others) and Travis Threlkel (also a founding member of BJM, now, founder & creative director at Obscura Digital) For these recordings, the Imajinary Friends enlisted the following to sing vocals on several tracks: The aforementioned, Australian/French-Belgian Singer-songwriter Moogy (L'Outsider); Stephen Lawrie of The Telescopes (Hate This Party); and Marleen Nilsson of Death And Vanilla (Baby’s Bathwater)”

1) (3:37) groovy trip hop kraut psych, Lumerians spring to mind, with sultry female vocals in French 2) (2:41) upbeat more driving tone, lots of interweaving fuzz guitar notes. 3)* (2:49) kraut rocky feel with synths and sampled beats raising their profile, chill and trippy 4) (3:14) little more obtuse and experimental collage-like, tripped out. 5) (2:54) heavier bass led feel and vocals and effects border on noisey 6) 7) (3:23) slow trippy instrumental 8)* (1:54) firing on all cylinders this one has cool twang/Tipsy guitar in the tray, cool beat, everything only wish it were longer 8)* (3:41) drivin hard a la Neu, killer 9) (1:43) tribal Tom beat heavy but chill at same time, there’s some guitar buried that reminds me of Neu 10) (12:09) finally a long form piece! Starts chill and swirls and builds, soft female vocalizations, dreamy epic and lovely, midway becomes full atmospheric balm but quietly builds back