DRUG FREE YOUTH
The Avocado Index
Hailing from Thessalonika in Greece, Drug Free Youth is
possibly something of a misnomer if ever there was one: all the songs were
written, arranged and performed almost entirely by someone called George, who I
suspect is not a youth, and possibly not entirely “drug free” either. Judging
by the gallimaufry of psychedelic sounds on this album you could be forgiven
for thinking that Albert Hoffman’s “problem child” had more than a little hand
in its making!
Tripping
across a whole spectrum of psychedelic sounds and influences, it lurches
between classic US ’60s fuzzed-out garage-rock, freakier Farfisa and
synth-driven psychedelia as well as Joe Meek flavoured experimentation. Some of
the instumentals, ‘Sans Marker’ for example, are quite rudimentary at times and
sound like something from the English ’70s kids’ television programme Vision On. The Avocado Index is certainly a bit of a weird one – but I mean
that in a complimentary way.
Rich Deakin
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