Sensational Saints – How Great Thou Art
This comp. has been out for a good 3 months, but I’ve only recently gotten a copy of it. It’s pretty much a no-brainer that anything with the subtitle “Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges” would be on my playlist, but this is a really good compilation of band’s that probably never sold 1,000 copies of their material before. But they each have that certain sound that ears attuned to Hip-Hop aesthetics just love. Here the Sensationsal Saints do their own righteous thing over a beat that is essentially a version of “Ain’t No Sunshine.”
Added bonus on the comp, the notes are super deep, with background on each of the artists, an account of how the comp. came to be, (basically J-rocc buzzing through a D.R. Hooker record Egon was playing at work, focusing on the title track and saying “That’s the loop right there”) and an interesting take from DJ Shadow on the use of horns in psych music being as annoying to psych purists as fuzzy guitars in funk are to funk purists…I guess that explains why I’m not a purist.