The Fat Angel Sings

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We’ll begin our inaugural column with a quick PSA about the healing qualities of psych rock. Recently, 10000 Russos (pictured) banished my hay fever with a spell of tough, droning love. Their brand of rock is a placebo: they only sound like riff swirlers Carlton Melton and Blown Out in theory, and in secret the Portuguese outfit compel us with a foggy, almost sabotaging presentation of their genre’s hallmarks. The arrangements they write are crystalline, but they present them at an echoing distance that recalls the lo-fi sewer pop of Dirty Beaches. Their self-titled is a distorted wonderland that will clean you out. Stakhanovets from 10000 Russos debut album out May 20th on Fuzz Club Records. Vinyl out July 20th.