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(SHDWPLY Records, 2008 )
G regarious, meditative tweaked out thrills abound on Gary War’s “New Raytheonport”
A waiting the listener: an exotic patchwork of synthscape chills, ’60s/’70s psych thrills, analog space jams, and fx-dripping lounge-pop sputter…
R everb-drenched distort-o vox musings, trance-like croons and syrupy hooks blur the line between changeup-laden songcraft and knob twiddling worm hole blackout, channeling Legendary Pink Dots-esque dark synth/coldwave washes and A.Pink-ish eight track sound collage blitz through an introspective, ethereal haze…
Y ammering, oscillating synth-heavy trippage blanket these saccharine psych-pop ruminations wonderfully, sonic caverns and crevices giving way to third eye excursions across a psychic expanse…
W hile eliciting spectral whisps of Nick Nicely/Bobb Trimble-esque outsider esoterics,
A s well as a thundering, pulsing din not unlike Hawkwind howling at Piper’s Gate,
R etread this ain’t: recalling some but defined by none, obsessively troving the fringes of psychedelic balladry, mechanized space-age din, and careening cosmic-consciousness boogie, Gary War takes us to spaces and places hithertofore uncharted on his wondrously burnt pilgrammage.
-Mike Ramek
