Psychedelic rock owes its earliest years to the hippie counterculture era that was the 1960s. It is a blessing that the genre earns itself a place at such a time within history, at the same time, such an association I fear has deeply confined people's understanding of the genre. Simply put, when one thinks of psychedelic rock, the first association is often times drugs. In this day and age, I could type in psychededlic rock into YouTube, and one of the first videos that appear bears the title "(Rock to trip to) :) I guess there's no avoiding that, but psychedelic rock came forth built on much more than a bunch of stoned "free-thinkers" Psychedelic rock transfused genres and crossed cultures, finding influence from as close as Southern blues and as far away as India.
"Take Your Time," a new track by The Cairo Gang is a quintessential example of psychedelic rock. Of course the uneasy genre has taken off to various sub-categories (space rock, ambient rock, shoegaze, etc), but this track remains grounded in the original flux of twangy guitars, tamborines and Eastern raga sounds of the early 1960s psych rock. Its hard to believe that this here is a new song, with the obvious influences of late Beatles and The Byrds pinned to the very sleeve of this song. Obvious as it is, that is not such a bad thing. The optimist in me takes this as a good sign, that the absurd sub-categories of psych have not truly taken over. "Keep negative spirits away."
The Cairo Gang have a small six song LP set for release 7/23 titled Tiny Rebels
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