Mother Sun Flower is a new heavy psychedelic power trio from Baltimore, Maryland grabbing members from The Flying Eyes and Whoarfrost. They released their debut EP back in January for FREE and I've been jamming it ever since. I can't get enough. The production helps all three members stand out stunningly as a good power trio should. Heavy powerful drumming with lots of cymbal play especially during the psyched out jams. The bass grooves are super bluesy-always prevalent and riffing through the guitar parts. The vocalist usually sings with some sort of distortion, fuzz, delay or reverb and adds a lot of soul and, at times, anguish to the heavy hitting Baltimore blues rock they've conjured up.
These guys are a great mix of Sleep-esque heavy stoner jams, classic 70s psyche guitar worship, acid trippy space psychedelia, and have a some sort of no-wave type edge (you'll get what I mean when you hear the sketchy sloppy guitar solos on the Skip James cover: "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues".) Rhythms change franticly and guitar work is all over the place. It's incredible how they pack so much into this 4-song EP. I literally giggle with excitement through the whole fuckin thing.
The opening track "See the Enemy" begins with the sparks of these high pitched guitar pricks acting as the flint for the fire about to burn through your ear drums for the next 18 minutes. Drums and bass then come stampeding in with a thunderous roar setting the stage for an epic heavy psychedelic journey-the vocalist begins to sing-tons of delay here-and just when you think you know where you're going, you get swept up by a whirlpool of guitar riffing straight off a ZZ Top record. But you keep getting sucked deeper and now there's high guitar shrills spiking up through the spacey haze of the riffs until the current eventually spits you back into the heavy stoner jam. It's really quite a ride. Their music is devastatingly heavy and stonery, but it plays much like a prog-rock record. The rhythm transitions are just absolutely flawless. Incredibly infectious and catchy with a raw and intense attitude that makes your heart scream. If you like anything rock'n'roll get this without hesitation. I've spent many hours listening to it on repeat. Great band to burn one to.
-BlackReignbow
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