Quilt, Brooklyn Vegan at Red 7, SXSW, Saturday 15 March 2014

The warm up tape before this band was an exciting indicator of what was to come with a good dose of The Beach Boys, Small Faces and Velvet Underground. The band's sonic palette was atmospheric west coast psychedelia with swooping and swirling guitars. The band were holding up well and still sounding fresh for their final show of SXSW.

They sounded like a melding of Teenage Fanclub or Velvet Crush and the Flying Burrito Brothers and seemed to take as their starting place the point where the Byrds' 'So You Wanna Be...' and 'Eight Miles High' left off. There were some nice finger-picking guitar licks from both guitarists as well as sitar inspired melodies.

The band gave the audience the pick of a fast or slow one as their final song. The fast one was requested and it was appropriately about as mellow fast as a psychedelic Cosmic American Music band who've played a week of shows, and an audience of exhausted gig goers, could want.

Other SXSW 2014 reviews from Broken Biscuit Records:
Damon Albarn
Gruff Rhys
Woman’s Hour
Wolf Alice
Jeremy Messersmith