Micke Bjorklof<\/a>). Led by Arto Tamminen, the group conjures the feel of early \u201870s Lennon. But it does more than that. The stomping title track has a character closer to glam-era T. Rex, albeit with treated vocals. As its title none-too-subtly telegraphs, \u201cQueen of Yesterday\u201d will make every listener think of Paul McCartney, straddling his Sgt. Pepper<\/i> style with the approach Wings used circa Venus and Mars<\/i>. <\/p>\nIt\u2019s fun to play spot-the-influences with this album. If Wings released \u201cI Hope it Wouldn\u2019t Rain Tomorrow\u201d right after \u201cJuniors Farm,\u201d fans would\u2019ve lapped it up. \u201cAll Because of You\u201d is Johnny Moondog again. \u201cUnidentified\u201d is London Town<\/i> era Paul. The pastoral White Album McCartney informs \u201cWhere Were You My Friend.\u201d <\/p>\n
And on it goes, with original tunes that distill the essence of yesteryear while never ever ripping off the sources of their inspiration. As its title hints, \u201cSome Tears\u201d feels like Plastic Ono Band<\/i> Lennon, with a bit of Flux Fiddlers fiddling in the background. \u201cAngry Young Man\u201d recalls \u201cMaxwell\u2019s Silver Hammer.\u201d \u201cLove to Live\u201d feels like a Mind Games<\/i> outtake with George lending a hand on slide guitar, and Band on the Run<\/i>-era Paul on harmonies. <\/p>\n
Shall I continue? \u201cWalking on a Sunny Beach\u201d is more mid-\u201970s Paul, circa Speed of Sound<\/i>. \u201cChild of War,\u201d check with White Album John. The jangling \u201cWhen You Were Growing\u201d reaches back to Revolver<\/i> and Rubber Soul<\/i> for its inspiration. \u201cSinging with the Bluebird,\u201d I don\u2019t have you tell you from where that one draws. A remix of the opening track concludes the album.<\/p>\n
As an exercise in creating original music using someone else\u2019s signature arrangement and melody ideas, Psychadilly Circus<\/em> is an unqualified success. But it\u2019s every bit as successful as a standalone musical experience. It\u2019ll make Beatles fans smile, while making them Bablers fans in the process. Bravo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"My copies of Imagine and Mind Games are on vinyl, so I knew I hadn\u2019t mistakenly loaded one of them into my CD player. But the cognitive dissonance remained as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[4598],"class_list":["post-21305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-the-bablers","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21305\/revisions\/21308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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My copies of Imagine<\/i> and Mind Games<\/i> are on vinyl, so I knew I hadn\u2019t mistakenly loaded one of them into my CD player. But the cognitive dissonance remained as I absorbed \u201cLove is Everything,\u201d the opening track on The Bablers\u2019 Psychadilly Circus<\/i>. Imagine a non-satirical rethink of National Lampoon\u2019s \u201cMagical Misery Tour\u201d and you\u2019ll have some sense of the song\u2019s vibe. <\/p>\n