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Artist
Mantra Love
12+ albums
Psychedelic Rockrockindiepsychedelicnew wave
about
For the past five years or so, the term “psych rock” has been given to many bands who are nothing more than garage rock. Though that’s generally semantics, it’s always nice to come across bands who are actually psychedelic, and who play the type of music that they claim to be. Enter Houston’s Mantra Love, a local three piece that’s been getting on all sorts of shows that seem to be getting bigger each time they perform. These guys make a mixture of cultivated psych rock that utilizes old school elements and new soundscapes that are found throughout the genre. On their latest EP, “Mantra Love” to be released tomorrow, they explore all forms of the category while keeping things fresh and inventive. http://mantralove.com/ Things kick off with “Hiraeth” which comes across as a proper opening song. It has these engaging percussion sounds mixed with a dreamy guitar and an underlying vocal that adds to the mystery of the song. Those vocals morph into a reverbed sense that lies behind and then on top of the other instruments on the song, and help really stretch the band’s sound. They kick things up a notch in speed before finishing the song off in a haze of pedal sounds. They follow it up with the spaced out vibe of “Perceptions,” where again the drums have this different feel that you don’t get to hear from most psych acts today. There’s a beauty in how the recording isn’t really polished and almost has the feeling of a live recording. If it was done live, then the fact t
