The Boston Tea Party – s/t [1968]
This album, released in 1968 on the Flick Disc label, constitutes most of The Boston Tea Party’s recorded output, apart from a few singles. The cover suggests a psychedelic (or at least colorful) affair, but the record, production- and instrumentation-wise, is more straightforward garage pop, with a strong organ presence and murky presentation. Songwriting-wise, though, [...]
The Hobbits – Down to Middle Earth [1967]
The Hobbits were Jimmy Curtiss(exhaustive bio/discography here)’s project who released three records on Decca between ’67 and ’69 (the third as The New Hobbits), and Down to Middle Earth is their debut. It’s an amateurish and occasionally bewildering record, obviously kind of shameless psychedelic bandwagon exploitation, but the most bewildering thing about it is how [...]
