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- Summary: This is the second full-length release from the Nashville garage psych duo of Calvin Laporte and Evan Smith.
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- Record Label: Ample Play
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Garage Rock Revival
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Oct 30, 2013You may variously be reminded of The Left Banke, The Byrds, The Mystery Trend, the Face To Face-era Kinks with their oft-tinkled harpsichord and even--in a recurrent, snakily-phrased vocal tic--Beck circa 1996 and The New Pollution.
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Oct 30, 2013They make everything work, really, and Inventions ends up being one of the better garage psych revival records anyone's likely to hear in 2013.
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UncutNov 20, 2013The period-perfect production is a little Dukes Of Stratosphear, though as with Partridge and co, the songs are so well crafted as to avoid any sense of prissy homage. [Nov 2013, p.79]
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Oct 30, 2013As a whole, Inventions plays nicely as the backdrop of your psychedelic dreams. In pieces, it fares much better and commands more attention.