This pop/psych band from Jersey always had the knack for going right up the edge of wimpiness without falling in. This has catchy harmonies, nice melodies, and lots of influences from the ’60s—namely ZOMBIES and early STONES. Nice second LP.
MOD FUN opts for more of that poppish ’60’s neo-psych, with the only drawback being that a certain telltale wimpiness accompanies the accessibility. Cute background choruses, jangly guitars, not much passion… Okay, I guess.
An organ-dominated neo-’60s band. “Yeah!” is a dippy instrumental with awful sax accompaniment, but the flip is a sharp ’60s punker with belligerent vocals and traces of psychedelic sound effects. The latter saves this debut.
Neo-psych with the emphasis on the Farfisa organ, the song structures sound remarkably like those of YARD TRAUMA, yet without that guitar bite. I enjoyed the instrumental on the flip, with its surfish overtones. Unremarkable, but entertaining.
This sampler from the Cryptovision label goes to great pains to capture that trashy, one-take sound. The most successful at this are the DISTRACTION BOYS, MOD FUN, and STEPFORD HUSBANDS. The other groups have a more forced, contrived sound.
