Fuzz Club are becoming one of the key hubs for all sounds psychedelic – whether it is the music that is fully in vein with the original psych of the late sixties or any of the updated versions from there on to current times. In that respect, to all who follow all things psych, it will probably be no surprise that one of the modern purveyors of psych that are Minneapolis’ Jason Edmonds and his Magic Castles, have found their way to this label with their new offering Realized.
Edmonds, as the bad’s principal songwriter, has always favoured that trippy, dream-like thread that original psychedelia introduced (not much fuzz or energy rush there), giving it that shoegaze/dream pop veneer, but then updated for the new century. Of course, many critics have stated that both shoegaze and dream pop are sub-genres that draw so many of their elements from the original psych rock of the sixties.
The key with such, we can call them musical reconstructions, is whether they strictly stick to the original schemes and formulas or are they interpreting those and/or injecting something new and ultimately personal into the mix.
In the case of Magic Castles, with their new album, they actually do introduce that magic element that they saw fit to include in the band’s name. It is both old and modern psych in one go.
