Every once in a while, a Spanish band appears that is so good that the only thing I can wish to them is not be Spanish but English or at least American, which seems to be the only way for them to make the big time, which they deserve.
Not that they cannot make it anyway eventually, it’s just that they have to take the long way around, and it’s interesting to notice that lately Rainbow Quartz seems to be the main gate for them (The Winnerys, Gurus, Sidonie, The Gallygows).
Let’s hope that The Zinedines will know how to handle the ball that was passed on to them (I just couldn’t help it, sorry ;-)). Most of the time, they’re trying to “take you, take you” into the 1966 time-frame, offering a contemporary vision of what they’ve learned from their B-bands records … and they learned it good!
It’s either The Byrds-doing-The Beatles or the other way round, as heard in the opening pair of Twice Upon A Time and the title tune, or letting the fab four doing their own psych thing themselves, as they could have in I’m Not Me, adorned with some ‘Floydian spaceish effect, or in Over You.
The appropriately titled Garage Flying Saucers Stoning is kinda like The Beatles again, trying to sound like an American farfi-sized garage band and the album closes with a piece of full-blown eastern type Harrisong.
Still Running is actually only a short snippet of what might’ve been one of the album highlights, but long enough to show the band’s love for Badfinger (by way of the unfortunately deceased Diggers), and further down the B-road, there’s also a quirky guitar line leading you into a Big Star Trek called I Know Your Bird.
For those who love Cotton Mather’s and Rockfour’s approach to the same matter, this will be a more than welcome addition.
[Released by Rainbow Quartz 2004]
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