Imagine that we are ten years further in time. You get into your flying vehicle, take off, crank up the music system, and you hear the instrumental self-titled debut album of American psych rock jam band GROOP. Opening track Highway Jam, 16 minutes of tempo changes and impulses, literally and figuratively lifts you to higher spheres. And that’s just the beginning, as after this promising first miles you’ll encounter illustrious figures such as Fogman, Leather Father and Camelot along the way, and hop off for a Toffee Walk.
Louis Cohen (guitar), Gabriel Salomón (sax & synths), James Novick (modular & synths), Bert Hoover (bass) and Shaughnessy Starr (drums) – perhaps known from Hooveriii or Frankie & The Witch Fingers – make it an exciting trip that stimulates the senses. Is it kraut rock? Prog? Jazz maybe? It doesn’t really matter, this is immersive music, in which an intelligent combination of instruments lets so much happen that the lack of vocals isn’t missed.
GROOP is out now digitally and on vinyl double LP through Greenway Records and Mock Records.
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