Artists starting with The Neon Philharmonic

The Neon Philharmonic, “Brilliant Colors” (Wounded Bird, 2016; original recordings 1969-71)
In the mold of VanDyke Parks, maybe even Randy Newman, a couple of studio pop pros with roots in the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition take a leap into psychedelia, but what makes this particularly wild is that both the Tin Pan Alley and the psychedelia are particularly overt. Orchestral surges and cliffhanger-shifting melodies driven by harder drumming than you’d expect create a real sense ofolder outsiders hitting the late ‘6ps head-on in all its euphoric and/or sinister excess.
Try disc 1: 1, 4, 9, 16; disc 2: 6, 7
4/7/19