zerfas

This album, by the Indianapolis outfit featuring the Zerfas brothers David and Herman, is one of the best and probably best-known self-pressed US psych records ever to have seen the light of day. All the material is self-penned which comes as a surprise as the tracks are uniformly strong, with lots of keyboards, sound effects, and some outstanding harmonies. One pundit was moved to write "a stunning psych album [which] can only be described as what might have happened if the Beatles had pushed the psychedelic experiments of Revolver into late 60s/early 70s territory" which gives you some idea of what this albums all about. As a fan wrote after discovering the band for the first time, "as the prelude to the first track slowly faded up - a wondrously thick mix of layered backwards and forwards voices and sounds - I remember thinking that this might just be the best thing Id ever heard. Across the two sides you can get some sense of these musicians labouring for hours in a small studio to get just the right blend of harmony, guitar, drums and organ to reach for that fleeting glimpse of something larger than we are. This is a great LP. Enjoy" And really, theres not much more you can add to that is there?"