Rooted deeply into the sixties garage punk and psychedelia, for more than a decade The Creatures Of The Golden Dawn are recapturing sketches of the beloved period of musical history through different kinds of covers, ranging from acts so diverse such as (on this album) Love, The Red Crayola, Thor’s Hammer or Tintern Abbey.
Of course, they also offer their own “recollection” of things with originals just as great as the ones that inspired them, ranging from moody Seeds-like Seeing Things and Tried So Hard, which also has an early-Kinky quality about it, through punk-ish folk-rocking jangle of Look What You’ve Done and The Face, as well as the Little Black Egg reminiscent Never Bring Me Down, and even getting kinda sweet and gentle in an equally punk-ish way in Sadder Than The Rest.
While also covering Love, if you put “7 & 7” together the influence of Arthur Lee is also clearly audible in Fade To Black, and Jump On You has all the ingredients of a garage-classic-in-the-making of it’s own.
Still “hip” enough after all these years, so if you’re not already, it’s about time to “get hip” yourself!
[Released by Get Hip 2006]
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