Morning Teleportation: Expanding Anyway

"Euphoria and transformation run through Morning Teleportation’s debut album, 'Expanding Anyway' (Glacial Pace), which puts neat, strategic structure behind its giddy psychedelic cheer. The band is from Portland, Ore., and Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse produced the album and joins in now and then. The music plunges into 1960s sounds: fuzzed-out blues-rock, folk-rock picking, spy-movie horns, communal sing-alongs. And Tiger Merritt, the band’s whooping, quavering, slurring lead singer, doesn’t shy away from lyrics full of dreams, love and 'cosmic mystery.' Yet Morning Teleportation never allows itself to slip into the aimless jamming that is psychedelia’s pitfall. Its songs are taut, quick-changing suites, heading from one skein of intricately tangled guitars to the next as if all that compositional planning were just happy serendipity" (Jon Pareles, "Playlist," New York Times, 3/20/11).
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