Fever Tree

Sound DNA

• Rock
• Psych Rock

• fuzzy
• intense
• psychedelic

About

Fever Tree’s 1968 eponymous debut gets a tasteful remaster that balances the era’s production values with modern fidelity. <i>Fever Tree</i> spans all realms of ‘60s psychedelia, from the baroque trappings rubbing against spaghetti western instrumentation in “Imitation Situation 1” to the acid-rock ballroom blitz of “Where Do You Go?” and the summery Northern California freakout anthem “San Francisco Girls” (which sounds like a soundtrack outtake from the 1968 Jack Nicholson film <i>Psych-Out</i>). There’s even a Pebbles-sounding garage rocker in Fever Tree’s cover of Wilson Pickett’s “Ninety-Nine and One-Half,” teeming with groovy fuzz guitar and go-go Farfisa organ. The band took on more ambitious covers, like a lightshow–friendly reworking of The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” and “We Can Work It Out,” blended here in a nice little medley that plays like Vanilla Fudge’s tripped-out take on The Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On.” The best of these culminates in a cinematic rendition of Buffalo Springfield’s “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing.”

via Apple Music

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