Lead vocalist and guitarist Isaac Wood was all chilly and stone-faced, shivering at the morning cold, perhaps relieved at the stop-off. They were ordering lattes and sandwiches, likely making enthusiastic use of that six-coffees-a-day Pret mega deal like normal people. Witnessing some of the members of Black Country, New Road in a Pret A Manger cafe a few months ago was a bizarre sight. However, for those fans who are able to let go and enjoy the ride, Deep Fried Grandeur is an expansive and mind-blowing trip.All the very best in album action, plucked and exalted by our teamof high trained vinyl ninjas.īlack Country, New Road – For The First Time (Ninja Tune) But the lack of a verse-chorus-verse anchor might be a little too untethered for those new or ambivalent to improvisational psychedelic music. The record isn't a necessarily challenging or abrasive listen, in fact it's often incredibly soothing and mesmeric. This album isn't psych-101 where traditional songs have reverb laden effects Deep Fried Grandeur fully celebrates the mind-bending formlessness of the psychedelic soundtrack. True to the ethos of the project, and the Festival, Deep Fried Grandeur leans heavily into its open-endedness. The band works together to navigate psychedelic waters, making their way through blossoming swells and and hypnotic whirlpools. Make no mistake, there is a lot of sound, but everyone had enough tact to not make the jam sound busy or haphazardly executed.
Each person dropped in and out with such seamless unity. Each band's mutual respect for one-another, along with their firm grip on the tenets of psych-rock, allowed for each instrument to delicately work with one-another. However, Ryley Walker was right: They were MORE than fine. Combine this with the sheer magnitude of musicians (there were nine! people onstage), and this project had the potential to be a chaotic failure: A sonic house-of-cards. Walker states about Deep Fried Grandeur, "We had an afternoon of rehearsal and it mostly just drinking espresso, smoking cigs and saying 'man, we'll be fine.'" There was not a lot of preparation for the jam. The delineation works however, as the listener can enjoy each passage, half, or whole as its own sprawling psychedelic narrative. The resulting Deep Fried Grandeur record was split into two "songs," fairly arbitrarily for LP purposes. The set was comprised of about Forty minutes of improvisational jamming, with a handful of different movements. The path is a little disorienting, but payoff lies in the pleasant enjoyment of the walk. The pair are a perfect union, as both Walker and KM's style share the same gentle bedlam like ambling through a flowery labyrinth. Walker wasted no time picking Kikagaku Moyo, the Tokyo Psych band making kaleidoscopic waves throughout the Western psych-rock scene. The festival organizers asked Walker, a self-deprecating and quirky NYC via Chicago psych/folk/jazz/whatever guitarists to pick another act for his band to jam with for a set. The most recent of these experimental collaborative releases is Deep Fried Grandeur, by Ryley Walker and Kikagaku Moyo.ĭeep Fried Grandeur was conceived at the 2018 Le Guess Who Festival, a Netherlands based festival celebrating various forms of experimental music.
With the growth of Bandcamp and DIY indie labels, we are lucky enough to have high-quality access to many of these performances.
Throughout the last few years, it was par for the course to walk into a club to find troupes of semi-famous (if not niche) psych rockers joining forces to create powerful music on the fly. One of my many favourite parts of the recent improvisational psych renaissance is the indelible respect and collaboration between the artists.
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