Holy Wave
Freaks Of Nurture
Reverberation Appreciation Society [2016]
Fire Drill Album Review: Again, psychedelic music comes in many forms today. With their newest release, Freaks of Nurture, Holy Wave pulls no punches and dreamily drifts into the 1960’s. I’m going to make a bold statement, Freaks of Nurture will be the most pleasant psych record of 2016-if not the most endearing. Holy Wave did well and caught me off guard with the “heavy” and fun Evil Hits. Then they took a bit of a rest on the intensity and relaxed with Relax. Now Freaks Of Nurture takes it psychedelics with a hint of shoegaze. Sonically, the songs are large, maybe their largest songs yet-time wise too. Songs like “California Took My Bobby Away” warms like a nice knit quilt that blankets the ears. “Western Playland” tricks my ears with a bit of Wood’s “Size Meets The Sound.” The charming “Sir Isacc Nukem” and “Minstrel’s Gallop” twinkle nicely. If Holy Wave could have pushed a bit more Evil Hits and a little less Relax Freaks of Nurture would have easily been a 4 if not a 4.5 headphones. But, Freaks of Nurture is still a focused and expansive effort pleasantly recreates Nuggets era pop with a thoughtful twist. Not a bad album to add among the ever expanding psych genre.
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-Reviewed by Christopher Tahy
From an early age I’ve been in love with music. Whether it was queuing up Sesame Street vinyl on my Fisher Price turntable. Using our family stereo stack to rock out to Billy Idol, R.E.M, Talking Head, Green Day, and John “Cougar” Mellencamp with my dad. Brought up on the classic rock radio station really helped lay the proper foundation for what music was and what it could be. While I do listen to the entire musical spectrum, my favorites are Metal, Soul, Jazz, Shoegaze, and Psychedelic anything. Basically an emphasis on anything rock, I never turn down a good riff.
- Christopher Tahyhttps://thefirenote.com/author/ctahy/
- Christopher Tahyhttps://thefirenote.com/author/ctahy/
- Christopher Tahyhttps://thefirenote.com/author/ctahy/
- Christopher Tahyhttps://thefirenote.com/author/ctahy/
