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FUTURE MEMORIES

ST 37

 

Psychedelic/Space Rock

2.00 | 2 ratings

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Conor Fynes
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1 stars 'Future Memories' - ST 37 (2/10)

Coming from the vault of one the United States' most traveled neo-psychedelic groups, 'Future Memories' was described to me as being a compilation of some of the band's historical material; due to the fact that this music doesn't seem to be on any studio album by psych ensemble ST 37, I'm guessing this can be best measured as a b-sides collection. Coming across as a garage rock hybrid of space rock innovators Hawkwind, ST 37 definately has an interesting sound for them, to say the least. However, at least as far as this compilation shows, the band still sounds greatly like the masters they first emulated as a tribute band when they first started. While the band gets the trippy, noisy atmosphere down right however, there are some very fatal flaws in the way the music is both written and executed (at least to the extent of this compilation) that really deter from the overall enjoyment of the piece.

While the fact that the sound is incredibly Hawkwind derivative may turn off some listeners that want a purely original experience, ST 37 does make themselves unique with their very lo-fi and garage-style production sound. While the very raw nature of the mix does work well for the more energetic sections of the music, the loose jams and ambient work here seems to suffer greatly from the lack of aural depth caused by the production. On top of that, while alot of the performance techniques here (such as ridiculously strained vocal work) are obviously meant for the sake of a quirky vibe, there is a sense of disappointment in how blatantly raw and unpolished the whole product is.

The biggest shame in all of this is that ST 37 is evidently a very talented and tight act. However, despite the band having some good chemistry with each other, it feels that a little more structured work have done wonders for this particular case, as it's clear that the spacy soundscapes don't work quite as well in lo-fi as the band might hope.

Conor Fynes | 1/5 |

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