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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Tonight Tonight in Music: Grand Atlantic, Dirty Sidewalks
Posted by Chris Aldrich on Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Grand Atlantic - Coast Is Clear by theaussiebbq
Grand Atlantic, Dirty Sidewalks
(Comet) The songs of Brisbane, Australia, quartet Grand Atlantic toll familiar bells to anyone familiar with 1990s psych rockers reviving 1960s psych rock. In other words, they sound like a carbon copy of a carbon copy, but the original thing is so pleasurable that even third-generation replicas possess estimable charms. Grand Atlantic's facile way with soaring melodies and alluring hooks, along with Phil Usher's smooth vocals, add up to a sunshiny stroll down somebody-else-who-knew-this-guy-in-the-late-1960s' Memory Lane. Still, the vicarious thrill perceptible in Grand Atlantic's amiable psychedelic-pop facsimiles is undeniable. DAVE SEGAL
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