Distastefully tasteful and at times alarmingly discordant but experimentally compelling, Psyflyer blast out their unconventional music with brutal freeform aggression and just a sideways glance at musical acceptability!
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Distastefully tasteful and at times alarmingly discordant but experimentally compelling, Psyflyer blast out their unconventional music with brutal freeform aggression and just a sideways glance at musical acceptability!
The only single genre classification usable here would be to say that Psyflyer are rock-something or maybe something-rock and to possibly add the word 'acid' in there somewhere!! They put me in mind of a vinyl work I bought in the early 70's by Hapshash And The Coloured Coat Featuring The Human Host And The Heavy Metal Kids - wow that was difficult to remember and equally difficult to describe too!! Any road up - Psyflyer get off on rampant big phatt bass routines straddling unnervingly psychotic but industrious drumming, seriously eerily manic guitar phrases and guttural ethereal vocal interjections - and some!! The overall feeling here is one of frayed-end looseness within a solid hardened metal framework - raw, mind-altering and slightly scary at times but somehow adventurously energetic and mentally challenging.
The recording here is very very low-fi, very raw and very 'live'; at times that sort of suits the music whereas at others its just a bit distracting - suffice to say there's room for improvement but perhaps not too much coz I get the feeling that Psyflyer are going for the weirdly-irritatingly-scratchy-live effect anyway. There are four songs presented here and each has its own little microcosm of rawly presented instrumental sounds and each has an identity that's somewhat rough around the edges but strangely likeable. Perhaps if you think Hawkwind on bad acid meets an unctuous and over-stretched Daevid Allen and together they go all out for a Motorhead appreciation jam - the result would be something like the Psyflyer end product - scarily haunting but somehow very gently persuasive - not mainstream rock maybe but cultish and underground.
So, Psyflyer are a bit different; their press pack goes into all sorts of descriptions, comparisons and biographies, histories etc etc - and it all tells me that actually Psyflyer don't really know themselves where their music fits into today's recognisable multi-genre pigeonholes. And that's probably the point!! Psyflyer play music that they get off on and just hope that they can find others of a like-mind to pick up on the buzz they generate. There'll be plenty of takers but they may be hard to find! An interesting if challenging demo this from a pretty spaced-out trio of acid-rock-heads. Interesting but not for everybody!
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