Psythøn, Jacob Sennese, David Johnson and Andy Georgiev, hail from Chicago, Illinois and have just released their debut album "Baptized in Bong Water", a must have release for those who like their grooves both heavy and acidic.
First out of the bag comes "Scorched Earth", the song starts in a wave of dissonant guitar noise then is joined by the drums and bass in a groove that is constantly switching back and forth between thrash-like stridency and doomic lethargy beneath a vocal that chronicles man's/earth's demise in harsh maniacal tones. "Quetzal Hostilis" follows and finds the band alternating between a low'n'slow stoner doom groove and one of a more mid tempo proto doomic meter around vocals that are a mixture of clean harsh and guttural, what really catches the ear though is the searing guitar solos which cut through the murky miasma of different dooms like a hot knife through butter. Third number "Crack (H)orse" is quite the departure from what has gone before, there is a funk element to be found here and it's the fucked up twisted sort of funkiness that 70's funksters Parliament/Funkadelic would sometimes toy with in their live shows, the vocals here are a relatively clean mixture of lead singing and shared harmonies but speckled with moments of punkish aggression. "Glass Highway/Baptized in Bong Water/Breath Of Life", would seem, on the face of it, to be three different songs seamlessly stitched together, the first song a funky heavy psych and acid doom workout, the second a sludgy metallic driving song and the third a trippy tiptoe through the tulips, albeit tulips that are withered and dying. Final song, "Barbarian" changes direction so many times it is hard to keep track, one minute its funky and bluesy, next minute its crushing and sludgy and the next its walking a fine line between languid and chaotic, at all times though it is totally mesmerising.
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