EUROBOYS
Long Day's Flight 'till Tomorrow (Man's Ruin)
Reviewed by DJ Johnson

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Ooo, this is a strange, strange record. Euroboys hail from Oslo, Norway, where they've built up quite a following with their spacey retro-dreampop, and rightly so, since they do what they do with imagination and verve. Um, hey, come to think of it, there's a bit of The Verve in here, as well as a spice mix of Iron Butterfly, Spirit, any number of San Fran jam bands and, well, their debt to The Velvet Underground is at least partly paid with the line "how do you think it feels" in "99 Degree." With sliding, distorted and echoing guitars, steady thumping bass, cymbal-intensive drums and a shimmering Farfisa organ tying it all together, the Euroboys sound is a throwback to the days when you needed a tab of specially treated paper to appreciate things like this. Hopefully, we've all grown up enough to get it on our own. The garage-psych crowd will have no problem there, as Euroboys pick up where Blacklight Chameleons left off, taking us on a starship glider ride worth the ticket price.

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