Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Digging through my Library - Lowrider

For the first time in maybe a year, which is a long time for me, I thought about my top favorite albums. It made me realize I've become somewhat disconnected from my music library, and that I've really just been relying on finding whole new albums on youtube or other places (physical or on the internet) and just casually milling through those. In an effort to reclaim my library I decided I would randomly pick an artist every now and again and pick one song that stuck out to me from that album. Hopefully this is the first of many.

I found Lowrider when I was in a heavy stoner rock groove. I just wanted more and more of that booming, low, drop octave sound played over and over again with teeth rattling amounts of distortion. Through some digging (mostly through following "Katzenjammer10011" on youtube, who has a pretty great spanning library of the stoner rock genre uploaded) I found Caravan and it was just exactly what I wanted. A very buzzy hook with cymbal slamming pacing and  tones that slid up to neck to get those high notes. I loved it. I had zero care in the world about lyrics, which was definitely helpful in experiencing the song. I got the whole album, and probably gave it a once over, but Caravan was the only one which really stuck out. Hopefully I'll have a chance to listen to the whole thing again and begin reclaiming the library. Anyhow, here's the song.

Enjoy

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