Cardinal Fuzz and Echodelick released a split LP in March that is so fried that it might actually melt your brain stem.
Side A is a Chicago freak-out fantasy: Plastic Crimewave Syndicate link arms with Mac Blackout for a scorched-earth sermon of acid-punk, synth-throb, and deep-fried sax squeals. Imagine Hawkwind crashed a Japanese noise show, lit a fuse under Detroit proto-punk, and let it spiral into a no-prog funk storm.
It’s cosmic chaos with ritual-rock vibes, like Comets on Fire doing donuts in a Monoshock parking lot.
Flip to Side B for Blue Fantasy, Saskatchewan’s dream-state response to the haze-drenched lineage of Spacemen 3. This side slinks like a velvet fog, featuring scene stalwarts from Radiation Flowers, Shooting Guns, and Snake River.
Jangly guitars shimmer under ghostly organs and vocals soaked in enough reverb to baptize your third eye.
It’s heartbreak psychedelia, northern-lights-glow edition, part lullaby, part alien abduction soundtrack. Where Side A lights the match, Blue Fantasy lets the embers drift, curling into the sky like a signal from another dimension.
A truly split brain of a record: one half manic sermon, one half lysergic freakout.
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