The Hedgehogs – Our Minds Dyed Yesterday
(Levitation Records /thehedgehogs.bandcamp.com)
Straight outta Aalborg, Denmark The Hedgehogs offer up an LP of classy
psych-pop late 60s styled garage that if you didn’t know better you would almost
think was the real thing.
No fancy
updating, no jarring “modern” stylings, just a set of pure, brash and sweet pop
music whose origins are only really obvious because of the clean quality of the
digital recording/download. On a beat up
record player you would be double checking to make sure you hadn’t stumbled
upon an unknown Ugly Things moment.
It’s
hard to pick a highlight since there really isn’t a bad song on this disc and
from opener Stumblin’ Around with its sweet guitar pickin’ and cool vocals through
to the Bo Diddley lite riff that holds down Servant Chant the boys don’t make a
false move. The Witch (all 1.49 of it)
is the song you want to hear in any 60s b-grade juvenile delinquent movie as
the kids rumble at the club, then there’s the gritty country twang of Dirty And
Vile, the cool harp blowin’ on Elevator, the great jangle of guitar on songs
like Peace In My Mind…
hell it’s all good.
I hear Flamin’ Groovies, Sunnyboys, Lime Spiders, Troggs, every great
Nugget moment, Byrds… but none of them overtly taking over, no one band you can
say is the main influence, just moments of clarity, riffs that sound so
familiar and yet aren’t. A great job,
not a revisionist album, not a revival album, just a band having a mighty fine
time in their garage. You will too.
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