FOLLIES - Permanent Present Tense LP accessories which colored the bleak grays

which colored the bleak grays of doom and the lurid greens of stoner metal with rainbow swirls of psychedelic rock

Watson's solo alter ego GUM has hot-wires grotty psych-pop on Delorean Highway

It makes sense that the first volume of Excavations is Strum & Thrum

Experimental electronic instrumentals reminiscent of early Eno

the Chats (their singer makes an appearance here

FOLLIES - Permanent Present Tense LP accessories which colored the bleak graysA new beginning with familiar roots. No matter how you slice it, Permanent Present Tense is a high test trek to the forefront of rock'n'roll's boundless canvas. The Follies have spent a collective lifetime in dark, amplified dives (see: Vanity, Vexx, Ajax, Twisted Thing for more) but their approach here is different, and firmly rooted in the present. Sure, these ten tracks have that compact, New York Fuckin' City drive that's innate to the five