Name: Strength of Spring
Brand: Grave Flowers Bongo Band

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CF131X

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Colour

yellow

Colour details

Neon yellow

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Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

733102720087

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

CF131

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black

Extended format: No

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

CF131CD

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733102720094

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Grave Flowers Bongo Band

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Castle Face

Los Angeles’ Grave Flowers Bongo Band’s sophomore LP <i>Strength of Spring</i> is an inverted pyramid balanced on the headstock of an acoustic guitar, a rainbow painted in campfire smoke, an endless staircase circling into the clouds. That acoustic guitar, perfectly captured here by Ty Segall’s excellently sere and close mic’d production, plays skeleton to these conjurors woolly grooves, and singer Gabe Flores’ thousand-yard moan keeps us guessing as to exactly where this wildebeest is headed. He pinions these far out tunes, which burst generously with shit-hot guitar leads, Stoogeseque sax squalls, and a gaggle of great eight-armed drum fills, with a flinty wrist-flicking heartbeat as the band turns from whimsy to nimble riffery on a dime, following that pied-piper six string jangling down many lovely rabbit-holes of melody and exploration. It’s obvious these guys play together a lot (the lineup shares two members with acclaimed space rockers Hoover III to boot) and the telepathy on display here is synapse-snappy. Coursing throughout is that note-pad filling, lighter raising, undefinable black magic that feels so rare these days….we dig it mightily and we think you will too, it’s out on Castle Face Records.

Strength of Spring

Music GB