I Don't Hear A Single Albums Of The Year 2023 : 31 - 40

 

For the last few years We have compiled annual Best Of 's because these posts seem so popular and the aim of this Blog is to get exposure (and Sales) for the artists. A reminder that anything reviewed on I Don't Hear A Single is highly recommended. 

Narrowing things down to this 100 has been really difficult. The countdown is posted in reverse batches of 10. For each album, a song is embedded from the album and a link is provided to the IDHAS Review where you can find further details and how to listen or buy the album

31 The Foreign Films - Magic Shadows      IDHAS Review

32 Blueburst - Significance       IDHAS Review

33 Dolph Chaney - Mug       IDHAS Review

34 Somerdale - Let's Get Started       IDHAS Review

35 The Projectors - The Projectors      IDHAS Review

36 The Midnight Callers - Rattled Humming Heart       IDHAS Review

37 True Stars - True Stars       IDHAS Review

38 Local Drags - Mess Of Everything      IDHAS Review

39 Real Tears - Whipped Dreams      IDHAS Review

40 The Reverberations - Half Remembered Dreams      IDHAS Review

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The Reverberations - Half Remembered Dreams

 

Portland Oregon's The Reverberations have released their third album on Sweden's splendid Beluga Records label and it is joyous. This Psych Pop of the very highest order. Very 60s as it should be, incredibly melodic pop with unexpected twists and turns.

People who know me know that for all the guitar led melodic joy that dominates here and the heavier Psych and Prog that is my home life, I am at my most happy when I am listening to Psych Pop. It is a genre that absolutely captivates me, does now and always did.

So when I receive an album as wonderful as this, I am absolutely rapt and have been for months. So much so, that I've neglected to tell you about it earlier than this. Half Remembered Dreams is so well put together, offering the nods to the past, but also being incredibly inventive in the now.

That invention never lets up, wrapping changes of directions in the whole cupboard of delights that the genre offers, The Reverberations can be as loose as you want (Wishing I Knew) which rocks, but also capture an atmospheric vibe (Daydreaming).

Color Coded Candy Cones is a wonderful organ driven joy, whilst Kaleidoscope is essential Baroque Pop. Visions is proper hippy trippy Psych, yet Cosmic Gaze is all yeah man UK Beat. Nothing even adds a Jangle Pop adventure.

Someday Soon is West Coast laidback Psych and there is even room for some ace Toytown with the magnificent Dr Please which has a wonderful breakout from the Beat to an unexpectedly gorgeous example of why I adore the subgenre so much. An album to be listened to from start to finish and then again.

You can listen to and buy the album here.

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