{"id":314,"date":"2007-02-26T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-26T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T09:46:38","slug":"what-s-playing-at-the-coffee-shop-baby-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-s-playing-at-the-coffee-shop-baby-g\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Playing at the Coffee Shop: Baby Grandmothers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As we await a Townsman’s musings on the future of psych<\/strong>, I stumbled across a remnant of psych’s past, the s\/t 1970 album by Sweden’s short-lived Baby Grandmothers<\/a><\/strong> (Subliminal Sounds). What can I say but This is some heavy, heavy instrumental power-trio psychedelia!<\/em> This is the kind of music power trios were formed to play: open-ended, fuzzed-out guitar and bass explorations with rumbling, bashing, sometimes impressionistic drumming. Most of the songs are long<\/em>. As a sample, I’ve selected one that gets right to the point and then seems to fade out, as if the tape snapped:<\/p>\n

Baby Grandmothers, “Raw Diamond”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There’s almost nothing subtle about this number, but other tracks, such as “Being Is More Than Life”<\/strong>, sound like something Hot Tuna<\/strong> might have cooked up on a good night, with tender-if-occasionally clunky bass and searing guitar interplay. You can sense fringed boots and headband somewhere in the grooves. I highly recommend this album for anyone wasting their time on Swedish psych albums with lyrics you’ll never understand, not to mention 3rd-rate psych finds with understandable lyrics not worth hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As we await a Townsman’s musings on the future of psych, I stumbled across a remnant of psych’s past, the s\/t 1970 album by Sweden’s short-lived Baby Grandmothers (Subliminal Sounds). What can I say but This is some heavy, heavy instrumental power-trio psychedelia! This is the kind of music power trios were formed to play: […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}