TCCDM Pulls One Out..."Rainbow Ride" - Andy Kim (1969)
"Rainbow Ride" - Andy Kim (1969 ) I had a few dollars left on my gift card, and in a bit of a hurry, I spotted Andy Kim's "Rainbow Ride" sporting a $5 sticker. Being a fan of psychedelia, I thought this might hold a little of that stuff, so I grabbed it. The album cover was throwing off some pop-psych vibes to me, and when I got it home, cleaned it, and dropped the needle on the square, that's exactly what it was. The psych elements are fairly light, with side one being the strongest. But overall, it's pretty good. I'm sure Andy Kim was just trying to rub shoulders a bit with the lysergic vibes that were in the air at the time. No foul for that. There is some fuzz guitar. Some phasing. Some studio trickery and noise-dropping shenanigans. All of these kinds of things, but in small doses. Nothing to scare Mom and Dad. I dug the innocence of the lite-psych dabbling on the "Rain...