Chicago’s onYou brews up a wicked psychedelic ambience for their new Follow The Music-Follow The Light EP, which just came out this week on Captcha Records. Limited edition cassette copies have already sold out, and unless your buddies with someone at Aquarius Records in San Francisco, where they have a stash of 5 tapes to give away for free, you just ain’t gettin’ your hands on one. That’s okay, though, as the EP is also available digitally via Captcha Records’ Bandcamp page, where you can also give it a spin.
OnYou began around 2005 as a collaborative basement project for Chicago recording engineer Stan Wood and bassist/guitarist Jamie Drier (Planes Mistaken for Stars, the Swan King), and the two started with some early four-track recordings before filling out into the psychedelic jam beast they’ve become. Looks like all of the band’s releases have been put out on Captcha, including their 2009 LP Poltergeist, the limited edition cassette Accidental Pleasure, 2011’s White Waste EP, as well as their digital release Collected Works Vol. 1. On Follow The Music-Follow The Light the band’s efforts tend towards the long-form, and while they might be jam oriented, they are definitely of the “don’t take the brown acid” variety! The 19 minute opener “Follow the Music” does exactly that, and grabbing an irresistible, hypnotic throb the band seems to pass thru a series of mysterious thresholds as they jam deeply inward towards a most terrifying Atom Heart Mother. While “A Secret Touch” and “Bandage Panties” add some vocals into what’s happening, they become one more dark strand to the music, serving to further disorient, while sounding like a bad case of “voices in the head”…Captcha promises five more releases from the band over the next five months, which means these Psychedelic Warriors must be in prime fighting shape!
