If you like your rhythms a mixture of tight and loose, love your guitars to be a blend of wacka-wacka funkiness and searing Hendrixian acidity and you like your low end to be both grizzled and bouncy then Desert Psychlist has found an album that could well meet all your needs. The album in question is titled "Acido y Puto" (Small Stone Records) and the band behind the album go by the name Free Ride, a Spanish power trio hailing from Madrid consisting of Borja Fresno Benítez (vocals/guitars/synth//sitar); Víctor Bedmar Lam (bass) and Carlos Bedmar Lam (drums).
First track "Space Nomad" boasts a mixture of musical styles gleaned from right across the rock spectrum, a song that sees lysergic haziness vying for space with heavy rock riffage and Wah pedal fuelled funkiness that is then topped of with searing bluesy lead work and a vocal that sits somewhere between Nebula's Eddie Glass and The Stone Roses Ian Brown, as opening tunes go this is up there with the best of 'em. Its full on old school stoner for next track "Outsider" an absolute peach of a song featuring a great vocal beneath which the groove is driven not so much by its drumming but by its low heavily distorted bass lines. Next track "Kosmic Swell", an instrumental, revives the wacka-wacka funkiness of the opening song and twins it with elements of acid bluesiness and hard rock swagger. "Vice" has the feel of a coming together of Fu Manchu and the UK's The Charlatans a sort of stoner/indie hybrid sound enhanced by searing lead guitar and whooshing synth textures while "Nazeré", if it wasn't for its brief vocal injections, could easily be mistaken for one of those extended late 60's jams so beloved of bands like The Grateful Dead and Quicksilver Messenger Service. "Steamroller" ,"Joy" and "Blackout" follow in quick succession, all three punkish stoner/desert rockers so deliciously "old school" they should be wearing uniforms and carrying satchels. Final number "Living For Today" follows much the same punk/desert/stoner route as its predecessors but this time is tied to groove that is a little less "Green Machine" (Kyuss) and a little more "Song 2" (Blur)
Free Ride cut their teeth playing generator parties on the open plateau's outside of their Madrid home so it will come as no surprise that the sound the band bring to the table with "Acido y Puto" is one not too far removed from that which once echoed across the open deserts of California when bands like Kyuss, Nebula and Fu Manchu were first finding their feet in this world. Basically if you like your stoner "old school" and served up with with a little lysergic haziness and a pinch of Mediterranean spiciness then "Acido y Puto" is the album you will want to be spinning.
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