Blog: the earlyfish

the high dials

The High Dials deal a psychadelic sound for today's mentality (and play a mean Sitar, to boot). It reminds you of the 60's sound, not the hippy, bell bottom, pot-smoking 60's, but the black turtle-neck hanging out at The Factory with Warhol, 60's. If the High Dials drive anything other than Vespa's, I'd be shocked. The High Dials manage to find a new atmospheric sound on thier follow up to A New Devotion, entitled War of the Wakening Phantoms that results in a melodic masterpeice. The Dials immediately bring to mind their Montreal-based brethren The Stills and a bit of [...]