Southern psychedelia
By Jeffrey Lee Puckett
The EP's best song, "Golden Inhibition Destroyer," is the tiniest epic ever. Without the slightest bit of specificity, it manages to create a world of missed opportunity, fatal hesitancy and an aching sadness: "There's carbon and there's love/Which one burns up/Oh, guess which one." Your first two guesses don't count, and by the time Christopher Rowell leads up to the song's cascading big finish by repeating "Is it all there is?" the tension between happy and sad is palpable and almost delicious.
Jeffrey Lee Puckett is SCENE's pop music editor and oversees this page.
clipped from www.courier-journal.com
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