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Mopar Mountain Daredevils: Acid Jams in the Crab Nebula

Posted in Reviews on March 25th, 2009 by JJ Koczan

It's a Satanic vampire bat thing. You wouldn't understand.The way Baltimore‘s Mopar Mountain Daredevils have set up their debut EP, Mopar Bloody Mopar (El Suprimo! Records), it’s like a trip that keeps going further out. Emitting four rays of molten, swirling stonerdelia each more lysergic than the last, the 25-minute collection offers the listener a gradual expansion; from the comparatively unassuming opening title track to nine-minute closer “Tiger’s Pause,” which deforms and oozes concepts over a canyon of reverb.

Put to tape and mixed over the course of just two days less than a month ago from this writing (Feb. 26-27, 2009, to be exact) by Rob Girardi at Lord Baltimore Recording, Mopar Bloody Mopar doesn’t sound at all haphazard or sloppy beyond intent, but the songs to retain a live spontaneity about them that brings the disc an energy often voided by layering in modern psych albums. I have no doubt that when I go see them open for Ya Ho Wa 13 at the Knitting Factory in NYC on Saturday, they’ll sound just like the EP — and yes, that is a good thing.

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