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Last Updated: 12/10/2009

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City: Baltimore
State: Maryland
Country: US
Signup Date: 7/28/2005
Tuesday, March 03, 2009 

Category: Music

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Bad Liquor Pond: Radiant Transmission
MT6 Records (MT6086)

I really liked this Baltimore-based band’s 2007 album Year of the Clam that I got for review in Bad Acid magazine. Stylistically the band stays pretty much on the same path but they have progressed musically. The Bad Liquor Pond sound has for sure been influenced by 60’s psychedelia, The Spacemen 3, Darkside, Spiritualized and other 80’s/90’s shoegazer/indie rock/psych bands and Brian Jonestown Massacre as well as Paisley Underground and other things. At times they go lightly and in a melodic way but the group is not afraid to use heavy, buzzing guitars when needed, either.

Radiant Transmission has 13 tracks on it. The album starts off with “Rabid Ashes” equipped with clinking guitars and harmony vocals reminding me of 80’s Paisley pop. It’s a nice song also including a fuzz solo. “Motor Shake” sounds a bit like The Green Pajamas or The Byrds, there are psychedelic soundscapes in the middle and the track also includes some whistle. The slower and dreamier “Pain Killer” is one of my favorites and it has treated vocals, nice, psychedelic shoegazer atmosphere and it brings to mind Sun Dial a bit. The more powerful ending really works! The acoustic-driven ”She Came in Heavy” is spiced with banjo and mouth-organ. The basic riff of the song “Sun Fingers” reminds me of the old song “Gloria”, although the vocals are more in the shoegazer territory. “Soothsayer” is a soft and quite slow number in the 60’s style. The ending is rather psychedelic! The slow and pretty “Rolling Hills” is shorter, excellent and melancholic track that also has some female vocals and organ. Another slow one is the dark, hypnotic and a bit mystical “Collision” that is actually a very good track with Jew’s harp. As the title suggests, “Prayer Song” is a bluesy prayer to God. The mid-tempo “Skylab” includes the heaviest stuff on the album and brings to mind Sun Dial. This one rocks in a great way! Another heavier piece is the pounding fuzz rocker “Saccharine”. I also like a lot the slow, dreamy track “Village of Kings” that is at times lighter, at times harder and pretty psychedelic. The album is finished with almost eight-minute-long ”The Golden Tooth (In Gods Crooked Smile” that is also the disc’s best piece. This is really amazing, floating psychedelia that has exquisite acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards and soothing vocals etc. The last minutes are just sort of quiet after burn. A really superb ending for this great album.

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