Psandwich / Northren Psych
Album: Northren Psych   Collection:General 12"
Artist:Psandwich   Added:Jan 2012
Label:Columbus Discount Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2012-12-08 Pull Date: 2013-02-10
Week Ending: Feb 3 Dec 30 Dec 9
Airplays: 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 31, 2013: Daydream Disaster
We Remystify
3. Dec 08, 2012: The Deadly Tango
Home Before The Snowfall
2. Dec 25, 2012: The Deadly Tango - Pseudo-Holiday Edition
Home Before The Snowfall

Album Review
Grumpy Sean
Reviewed 2012-12-03
Midwestern rawk-n-roll -- specifically, Columbus, OH. Ron House is a true Columbus original, best known for his service in Great Plains and the Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments. This record marks House's return to recording after nearly a decade of relative inactivity following the implosion of TJSA. House's voice remains polarizingly one-of-a-kind -- nasal, whiny, high-pitched. His band is far more proficient -- a crunchy twin guitar attack that runs the gamut from Neil Young / Crazy Horse territory to primal three-chord crunch. And the one recurring theme in the album is a mocking unease with contemporary society... what's not to like?


MOST BREAKS ARE TIGHT -- PAY ATTENTION
FCC - 1.6

1.1 * minor key rager, some breakdown shouting and scorching
1.2 med+ with a slower bridge, trippy/mocking new age lyrics.
1.3 med+, about the omnipresence of iPod earbuds(?)
1.4 med(+), non-descript rock, don't bother
1.5 med, back to the minor key groove, fighting to retain sanity with a solid gtr freakout at the end
1.6 FCC ("shit gaze"), med, mocking the club-going youth of today

2.1 * med/varies, longer, winding, Neil Young-like; cover song, originally by "The Sixth Station" (early 80s private-press christian rock - don't hold it against them)
2.2 med(+) - sounds very much like a left-over TJSA track, straight ahead rawk
2.3 * med(-) - deep guitar psych-burn with cornball lyrics
2.4 med - choogling, almost motorik groove with afterburner guitar and spoken/shouted lyrics
2.5 med+ - stream-of-consciousness sing-song vocals over guitar jam and driving groove

Track Listing
1. Ceiling   6. Sketchnya
2. We Remystify   7. Home Before The Snowfall
3. Little White Cords   8. Something To Prove
4. Stoned To Death   9. Spiral Scroll Stroll
5. Not In Jail   10. Third Eye Pod
  11. Like A Metaphor