Wished Eye THRILL JOCKEY
Inner space cadets deliver tuneful, exploratory psych on their fourth album.
Over the course of four albums, Portland’s Dommengang have moved from tripped-out desert blues to a more nuanced take on modern freak rock. Wished Eye exudes a strong Ladbroke Grove-via-the-Pacific Northwest vibe, combining the jam band ethos of the early 70s with progressive-minded 21st-century psychedelia, and arriving at a sound that shifts between heavy skronk and cosmic Americana with lysergic agility.
Runaway showcases their style nicely: some mystic Hillage-esque drift, an insistent bass line and rumbling drums, then yearning guitars stretching skywards over turbulent wah-wah. Society Blues is a pulsating space rocker with some mean, overdriven leads, but the arrangement is loose and never less than groovy. The album gets more dramatic and expressive as…
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