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"Lush Spiritualized lullabyists" - SF Weekly "The soulful songs on the pair's 2006 EP have a hallucinatory power that conjures up mirages and shimmering light... resonant organ riffs combined with Rich Good's guitar reverb are the foundation of their magical soundscape." The Union Kings & Queens is a four-piece from Nevada City, CA. Time spent in the Sierra Nevada forests and under the hot skies of the Mojave yielded a new song book for singer, guitarist and closet Englishman Rich Good after the demise of his first California band "the Pleased" (with Noah Georgeson and Joanna Newsom). The music trips down the mountains to the scrubby desert, landscape affecting sound. Kings & Queens is darkly psychedelic dream-pop (sparkling with tints of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac, Neu!, Roxy Music and Nick Drake); a layer cake of delayed guitars and analogue organs twist and grind while harmony vocals float above a relentless rhythm section. These songs will see you warmed and alarmed. It gets under your skin. The current Kings & Queens lineup consists of Rich and Andrea Good, David Torch, and Jonathan Hischke. 2007 will bring a full-length record, dramatic inter-band turmoil, cliché rock excess and further touring. other stuff: |
