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"LID" is the third album in the Cricketbows canon and is also the most direct. Leaning further toward a streamlined (yet still psychedelic and progressive) sound, "LID" jettisons the long instrumental jams of the first two albums in favor of concise, well built and heartfelt songs. A svelte, 8 tracks with only one (very rocking) instrumental track, "LID" is Cricketbows helmsman Rev. Chad Wells flexing his songwriter's muscles. As a trilogy, "hOMe" was the come on, the first waves after ingesting the spore and "Mycocosmic Transmission" was the peak of the trip and it's psychological secrets unlocking themselves. "LID" is the come down. Days, weeks and months after the earth shattering psychedelic experience where hindsight and a clearer head prevail to draw audible pictures for the listener to try to make heads or tails of what the whole psychonautical journey was about. This third album finds Wells once again steering the ship, writing and performing nearly every sound with a little help from fellow Ohioan, Andy Gabbard of Buffalo Killers who, on three of the albums tracks, adds backing vocals, some guitars and a pedal steel-esque lead guitar track that summons the rural spirit of Neil Young and Marc Ford era Black Crowes somehow simultaneously. The album's title, "LID" has many meanings, from the obvious 60's weed reference to that part of one's being that gets "flipped" by a psychedelic experience to it being the closing of this first Cricketbows trilogy. The album art pays
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