CD Reviews: White Fence

While bedroom-based one-man band Tim Presley steps into producer/collaborator Ty Segall's garage studio this time around, but doesn't stray too far from the familiar.

The setting is appropriate for a set of nervy psychedelic tunes that reference the structured pop of The Who, the elegantly skewed musical sketches of Syd Barrett and the raw, jangling guitars of the earliest garage-rockers.

Presley's scattershot approach means patience is required as when form emerges, it is sometimes beautiful.

Too often, however, the sprawling jumble of ideas do not coalesce but simply drift apart.

•  White Fence. For The Recently Found Innocent. Spunk Records.

•  Three and a half stars (out of five)

Single download: Like That
For those who like: Nuggets-era psychedelic rock, Darcy Clay

- Jeff Harford

 

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