Medication - This Town

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4...according to our Brett on Thu 21 Jan, 2010.

This Medication album came from the distributor with a bit of paper on it instructing us to 'Play this loud', something which always seems kind of necessary with these echoey lo-fi garage rock jobs. They always seem to play some sort of trick on you whereby they doesn't sound particularly loud even when they're up at deafening volumes, it must be all that mid-range fuzz I guess. Anyhoo This Town kicks off in that fashionable Woodsist style with jangly, trebly guitars played through crazily overdriven amps and recorded by a 50p 4-track. There are some nice 50's style melodies buried in there for sure. I know they're hardly the most appealing comparison to most people these days but the Von Bondies' first couple of albums keep coming to mind, although this is obviously way rougher around the edges. Towards the end things even branch out into a more folky, super hazy smack den Fleetwood Mac sort of thing.. I wouldn't have thought that comparison would be forthcoming when the CD started off, but there you go..

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Hozac starts the year with a slew of hot stuff!! As the leaves have all fallen and the Autumn winds have now turned cold, the timing couldn't be more perfect for the debut LP, 'This Town,' by New Milford, Connecticut's melodic saving grace, Medication. The one-man home-recording project has built itself up into a fully-automated live band over the past year, but the seductive recordings contained herein, lush in their simplistic, beautiful morosity, and minimally-orchestrated fragility, have continued to seep into the fabric that defines the season better than any other modern contenders. Mikey Hyde's songwriting development is steeped in the winning revelatory combination of isolation and reverberation, and as the static-laden echoes rise and fall against the imaginary backdrop of your mind, it's tough to fight off the therapeutic effects Medication will have on your physical and mental well-being. As if self-prescribing music like this hasn't been the answer to society's ills all along, playing the first full-length by Medication in times of despair or hopelessness like these has never been more important. We're proud to deliver this soul-warming debut long-player by one of the most criminally-overlooked 'private-press' style recording artists of the new millennium, Medication. Recommended if you like: Gris Gris, Leonard Cohen, Skip Spence, Dutchess & the Duke, Pink Reason, Kurt Vile, Thee Oh Sees listen here:

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