A Fleeting Visit? A full-scale battle between psych funk and yacht rock more like. It’s like this – we open to a big-ass drum break and FX and then as the fourth bar powers to the end accompanied by piano tinkles – in comes the guitar sound of 80s smooth. Oi mate – what you doing? We got some heavy psych-funk shit going on here – it’s not Toto-tribute night! Yacht-y’s having none of it though – noodle-noo-ing away. Right – it’s on! Bring in the big guns – some nasty reverbed-wah-wah guitar – he won’t be able to counter that! Yes! Wait – what?! He’s still there! What the…? And so it goes. Picture cruising down late night Biscayne Boulevard in 1986 in your vintage ’72 Ferrari Daytona Spyder, vintage seventies psych-funk on the late night radio when a white Ferrari Testarossa pulls up alongside, windows down, blasting an 80s George Benson guitar solo on his radio. Gotta learn to go with the heat Rico…
(Out now on Thylacine Sounds)
