Paul & Pets – Super Mario In Pain

Genre: Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Alternative Rock

Similar artists: The Flaming Lips, Pavement, Ween, Animal Collective

Psychedelia has changed. The alteration is neither for better nor for worse. It has happened naturally as a way to integrate the hardcore elements of the modern world into what some time ago were merely fumes of fancy. After all, there’s much more to account for than in the early days of The Grateful Dead and Blue Cheer. Even on their strangest acid trips, the original hippies couldn’t have foreseen some of the things that average people have made part of their lives nowadays. 

Reality is unavoidable. And, in recent years has come to mimic a bizarre, dystopian fantasy at times. This sends people looking for some sort of relief as has always been in the case. But, even chemical refreshments are tougher. And, don’t start thinking about slipping into an alternate reality by using modern technology unless you plan. On getting your head friend. 

With all of this in mind, it feels only natural that modern psychedelia-enforcers Paul & Pets would start worrying about the fate of a beloved 1980s video game character. There’s humour to Super Mario in pain undoubtedly. But, the sounds of the record are designed to pull you close, ask you if you got $20 and any pressing matters the next morning. This is not music designed to enhance your perception, but rather to shift your full attention into places where you’d never believe it could go. Psychedelia has changed and Paul & Pets are among those bravely carrying the flag forward. 

latecomber – Circuit Tang (rift)

Genre: Bedroom / Lo-fi Pop, Garage Rock

Thankfully rock n’ roll doesn’t need to make sense. This is one o the many things that draw me and others like me to it every day. It didn’t use to be this way. People used to fight each other, I presume to buy Captain Beefheart records because they must have sensed that this was a sign that the world was falling into anarchy and disarray. How otherwise would a large record company agree to put this kind of music out? Certainly, there had to be more to it, or else the world had truly gone crazy. 

The fact that modern music can rid itself of any pretence to make sense if so chosen, is a great gift. You see, people usually demand that things either make sense or that the world explains to them why they do not. The Voynich Manuscript is, most likely, just a bunch of nonsense. But, this doesn’t stop thousands of people from trying to decode it. Cicada 3301 was probably just the work of a lonely teenager trying to pull a prank, but try telling the internet that. 

latecomber know that rock bands are truly cool when they can afford to embrace absurdity as the band does on Circuit Tang (rift). And, make no mistake about it, this is bad that is heavily preoccupied both with being cool and in the art of embracing irrationality. This is downtown New York rock music made to sound like a foreign language. The point is that these folks are so cool and laid back that they can’t bother explaining themselves. It’s like Metal Machine Music with a tune. 

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