The Grey Album
Omnibus
2004
Rating: 7 heavy eyes out of 10
Many of you are probably having the same reaction to this that I did, which went something like this: “Gary Young? The Gary Young from Pavement? Plantman? Holy shit!” That said, this is a decent enough release by someone I had assumed was long gone from the music scene (although it appears, unknown to me, that he released an album in 2000 as well). Those familiar with his post-Pavement work of the mid-90’s, this is roughly in that same vein of sound. For everyone else, the closest touchstone I could come up with is Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, with a bit of mellow psychedelia ala The Radar Brothers or some such similar outfit, with a bit of silliness thrown in. nothing groundbreaking, but worth checking out if you happen upon it; additionally, he seems to be playing out a lot lately, and I can only imagine the live shows are worth a viewing.
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