Phil Dirt - Reverb Central - PO Box 1609, Felton, CA 95018-1609 USA | This is a 1984 reissue of The Index's Black Album on the legendary Voxx label. No effort at restoration was made, but it was the first daylight shed on this illusive band from Grosse Point, Michigan. They were very experimental, with surf guitar and an evil psychedelic meandering sound. |
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Track by Track Review
Surfadelic (Instrumental)
A very cool blues number with a surf guitar lead. Very unusual track. The lead line is one and a half bars behind the bass line for a really nifty affect. Heavy reverb and dark imagery, part surf, part psych.
Surfadelic (Instrumental)
A major wah wah psych noise instro, huge, reverby, dense... like from the back of the Fillmore.
Surfadelic (Instrumental)
Surf instro from a huge psych hall sound, semi-melodic, semi psychedelic, semi surfy. A big progression from surf to wah wah to feedback... very interesting. 30 years before Vibrasonic was a whisper, the Index were reality.
Surfadelic (Instrumental)
Pure guitar feedback, sounding like the jams that happened at the San Francisco Sound Ballroom in Seattle in the late sixties... boomy, reverby, huge, and ugly.
