by: Sean Boy
Drenched in fuzzed-out guitars, backwards guitars, keys and strings of all shapes, sizes and warm vocal harmonies Age Of The Sun is a lush study of psychedelic pop some three decades later. The wizard behind the curtain of The Sunshine Fix is Bill Doss, also a member of Olivia Tremor Control, and he's collected fellow musicians in his adopted home of Athens, Georgia as stage hands for his first solo effort. Not satisfied with simply borrowing from the early psychedelic scene, Doss extends his influences: "I feel like I've appropriated all that I can from the old masters and all the old progressions and changes. It's all about appropriating these days you know. Now it's time to go to Curtis Mayfield and see what he has." "See Yourself" is soul-packed proof of where Mayfield and Doss come together. Doss and company don't stray too far from their roots however. For instance, "Sail Beyond the Sunset" begins with a pleasant country riff, but the self-avowed tinkerer can't keep from meddling with things and soon the song is full of psychedelic trappings, and then melts easily into an improvised toy piano jam. The sunshine theme holds fast throughout the album; most of the songs are about the sun in one way or another. Indeed, there is not one dark spot on the album - it shines in every way.
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