Album of the day: Mondo Drag – New Rituals

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: With minds expanded and set to the key of retro, Davenport, Iowa — which for those in the know is called “the San Francisco of Iowa” (that’s not true) — the high toned Mondo Drag emerge bearing psychedelic sweets that seem to melt as soon as they hit your tongue. There are 11 of them, to be exact, and when packaged together and put in the right order, they make up the band’s Alive Records debut, New Rituals. It’s a record about as thick as the band’s collective sonic moustache, and right from the opening nine-minute title track, you know there’s a freakout bound to happen here.

Their heavier moments could be drawing from Graveyard or a less doomed-out Witchcraft, but as change-up tracks like the acoustic-led “Black River” or “Come Through” demonstrate, there’s more to Mondo Drag than mere aping of ‘70s proto metal.

Continue reading: The Obelisk » Blog Archive » Old Rituals Made New Again by Mondo Drag.
(Special thanks to JJ Koczan for the kind permission)

Tags: album of the day, Alive Records, JJ Koczan, Mondo Drag, New Rituals, psychedelica, Retro, Stonerrock, The Obelisk

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