Morgan Delt Phase Zero Vinyl LP 2016

Tracklist:

1. I Don’t Wanna See What’s Happening Outside
2. The System Of 1,000 Lies
3. Another Person
4. Sun Powers
5. The Age Of The Birdman
6. Mssr. Monster
7. A Gun Appears
8. The Lowest Of The Low
9. Escape Capsule
10. Some Sunsick Day

The invocation of classic West Coast psychedelia that permeates Morgan Delt’s Sub Pop debut album feels like a continuous sunrise, never concealing its influences yet perfectly putting its songs through a gauzy lens that blurs and obscures.

The resulting 10-song collection is a home-fi construction with a more subtle, brain-tickling character than its predecessor and somewhat reflects a realist take on the flower power fantasy of 1967. Each song comes doused in echo and haze, slow chords lap in like Pacific waves, flanked by gentle whispers of multi-tracked, cooing vox, phased guitars and fuzz that calmly surrounds the listener’s head less than it jabs at the cortex.