It is perfect California psychedelic beach music and you need to give up the time to go where it wants to take you. ![]() It's one of those wonderful old-fashioned albums where the sum is greater than the parts and it is therefore best experienced as a whole rather than as YouTube clips or individual mp3 song downloads. Shimmering rickenbackers and glistening pedal steel guitars glide around monolithic harmonies and everything s-l-o-w-s d – o – w - n … The air is thick, listen to the waves, the past is resonating and you are not quite sure when you are. ![]() Like the best of the Byrds’ mid 60s oeuvre the whole album seems to float in summer heat haze. I really cannot understand why I didn’t see it on more top ten album lists of 2012. And here it is beamed to us through a crack in the multi-dimensional matrix via Beachwood Sparks. In an alternative reality in another part of the multiverse they probably did. ![]() “The Tarnished Gold” is the album the Byrds could have recorded after “ Notorious Byrd Brothers” and before “ Sweetheart of the Rodeo”. ![]() They are also helped out by Ben Knight (The Tyde). “The Tarnished Gold” is that album and it's by a band called Beachwood Sparks.īeachwood Sparks are singer / guitarist Chris Gunst, singer / bassist Brent Rademaker, singer / multi-instrumentalist Farmer Dave Scher, and drummer Aaron Sperske.
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