Singing Inside Your Head. The Laissez Fairs

Singing in your head? Fat chance with an album like Singing In Your Head. Las Vegas' The Laissez Fairs lets it all hang down on its new album and outdid itself. This album is outstanding.

Don't expect something new, except for the songs themselves. Instead, expect something old. The Laissez Fairs recreate the music of decades ago and come up with a great album in 2023. Psychedelic rock is all around as if 1967, early 1968 never went away. Now many bands dab in this kind of music. Some sound more modern in their approach others stick closer to the source. You will find The Laissez Fairs more on the latter side of the equation. With short ventures to the other side.

Singing Inside Your Head is filled with songs that could have been released, in mono, circa 56 years ago. Shows would have been filled with hippies, smoking illegal substances or worse with fluid projections on the wall behind the band and pre-disco mirrorballs twirling.

The album is filled with a spacy Rickenbacker, a farfisa organ, distorted vocals, wildly played tambourines and dreamy, trippy songs. You will find references to many famous bands of the era. Just take my word for it. This would all be nice as a trip down memory lane but nothing more, if The Laissez Fairs had not added its own signature to the sound and this starts with the songs.

It's here the better if not best news starts. The band delivers a wide range of styles. From up tempo space rocking pop singles to sonic adventures taking the listener on a musical trip. You will find everything in between. Had this been 1966 - 1968 many a band looking for a new single could have turned to Singing In Your Head and have its pick.

The jump the band makes with its new album is phenomenal. What I had heard previously was nice, not outstanding. On Singing In Your Head several songs tip that top easily. It's a kind of album that is a must have. Agreed, the singing is not the best in the world, but that is really the only thing that I can mention here. Set that against the way John Fallon uses his voices in the stellar psychedelic pop rocker 'Pretty Penny' and there's no argument left to make.

In 2023 I can only muse about what the effect of this album would have been in 1967, the year it should have been released. An academic question and useless of course. Its impact should be just as great in 2023. A fine album is a fine album. Singing in your head? More like SHOUTING OUT LOUD.

Wout de Natris

You can listen and order Singing Inside Your Head here:

https://thelaissezfairs.bandcamp.com/