{"product_id":"psych-bites-vol-2","title":"Psych Bites, Vol. 2","description":"The first volume of Psych Bites, released in 2008, focused exclusively on Australian bands from 1967-1974, before anyone was really paying attention to rock from down under, and it was in large part a hard, heavy set of proto-metal. This second compilation gathers tracks from all over the world, and is consequently much broader in scope. One early highlight is a cover of Atomic Rooster's \"Tomorrow Night\" that mostly works because it's a great song, not because the Lebanese band Chartbusters bring anything special to the table. Krokodil's \"Blue Flashing Circle\" is almost proto-Krautrock with its keyboard drones and Jaki Leibezeit-esque free-funk drumming; Rote Gitarren's \"Anfang\" is a semi-heavy stomper with lots of fuzz guitar and thudding drums; and several bands offer funky jams that seem more indebted to James Brown than Jimi Hendrix, making their placement on a psychedelia comp a little mysterious. The presence of two tracks by the astonishing Nigerian answer to Funkadelic, Ofo the Black Company, including their anthemic guitar firestorm \"Allah Wakbarr,\" livens things up quite a bit toward the disc's end, but too much of this is anonymous and forgotten for a reason. ~ Phil Freeman","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49086353178911,"sku":"827010211628","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/0e9ee38d0f5a9634858070858431b495.jpg?v=1777883629","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/psych-bites-vol-2","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}