{"id":29436,"date":"2025-05-26T05:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T09:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=29436"},"modified":"2025-05-20T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:36:33","slug":"album-review-the-chemistry-set-an-introduction-to-the-chemistry-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/album-review-the-chemistry-set-an-introduction-to-the-chemistry-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: The Chemistry Set \u2013 An Introduction to The Chemistry Set"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My introduction to The Chemistry Set was a 2022 album called Pink Felt Trip<\/i><\/a>. Really fine stuff, and recommended. If you’re not already hip to their sounds, your<\/i> introduction, gentle reader, could and should be a new 2CD set straightforwardly titled An Introduction to The <\/i>C<\/i>hemistry Set<\/i>. For more than a decade now, the UK group launched by Dave McLean and Paul Lake has been making period-correct psychedelia. The group’s stylistic palette is wide and vivid, drawing from both the pop and whacked-out ends of the multi-color psych spectrum. Listeners perusing The Chemistry Set\u2019s catalog will discover tunes that echo early (Lost <\/i>C<\/i>hord<\/i>) era Moodys, early-early (Syd-period) Floyd. The group\u2019s body of work is filled with gems, most any of which could be slipped seamlessly into a playlist built around The Great British Psychedelic Trip<\/i>, Nuggets II: British Empi<\/i>r<\/i>e and Beyond<\/i> or similarly-orientated collections. And this collection draws from the best of the group’s output.<\/p>\n

Some tunes rock gently. Others storm along, riffing mercilessly. What most of the tracks share is a sonic and lyrical aesthetic that places them in and around 1968. And the ones that don’t will appeal to fans of Stone Roses and\/or Kula Shaker<\/a> (in other words, listeners with good taste). Original tunes are mixed into a non-chronological set of tunes along with inspired covers. Unless you\u2019re a serious, serious psych aficionado, you won\u2019t know which is which. (Okay: you\u2019ll spot \u201cDear Mr. Fantasy\u201d as a Traffic cover.) But you\u2019re likely to dig all. For listeners who dig Dukes of Stratosphear<\/a>, Orgone Box<\/a>, select releases from the wonderfully prolific Anton Barbeau<\/a>, or most anything from Julian Cope, An Introduction to The Chemistry Set<\/i> is a luxurious trip indeed. It is thus most enthusiastically recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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