Sacri Monti - Sacri Monti (2015) (Full Album)
Sacri Monti are a fuzzy, psychey, trip-out of a band from San Diego, California whose debut eponymous full length has dropped down on us from Tee Pee Records’ sepia-tinted land of sonic solace. The quintet are comprised of members of Radio Moscow (bassist Anthony Meier) and JOY (drummer Thomas Dibenedetto) alongside synth/organ-player Evan Wenskay and guitarists Brenden Dellar and Dylan Donovan. Any prior insight you may have into these named bands’ collective outputs makes it immediately clear just where the Sacri Monti stall has been set out: in a pile of acid-distorted, noisey riff-rofforama, under a glow as bright as the desert sun. There’s no hint of a cover-up or twisted agenda here, this six-tracker packed full of extended jams and wig-outs is a solid example of good old-fashioned blissful, yet amp-heavy ‘70s Krautrock. Radio Moscow’s rawness and emotive flower-power guitar-work shines through on the likes of the expansive, organic Slipping From The Day and the Hawkwind-b...