The Walflower Complextion

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Contains 24 tracks. A crudely performed, typical 1966 high-school garage rock album, a bit weirder than some of the others from the time. Although it was recorded and released in Colombia, it was recorded by Americans and really could easily have been made in the U.S. rather than abroad. Amid the clumsy covers of "Hanky Panky," "Long Tall Shorty," and four songs by the Rolling Stones are more unexpected renditions of Link Wray's "Jack the Ripper" and Richard & the Young Lions' regional garage hit "Open up Your Door." More interesting, although not immensely so, are the band originals. There's an average folk-pop rocker ("All It Is"), but otherwise all of those are instrumentals: "Chris's B's," which accelerates like an amateur-hour Yardbirds contest; "Blue Bells," a pretty fair surf instrumental with some odd discords and fast-to-slow-to-fast-again tempo changes; and "Sapphire," more surf-meets-rave-up improv with an ill-tempered spoken rant in the middle. Both this and the Walflower Complextion's second and last LP, When I'm Far From You, have been packaged together as a double CD reissue by Normal/Shadoks. ~ Richie Unterberger