Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, noted for its bohemian 60's counter-culture. Conversely, it's also the name of this Glaswegian psych/rock/folk trio. Musically too, this band seem far removed from their brooding home-town contemporaries, and the sexy indie-cool on the likes of Favourite Song and Freeman Town are more Rilo Kiley than Twilight Sad. The flipside to their sound is a folksy psychadelia, in-keeing with their geographical namesake, on songs like Molitof and Sympathetic Strings.
The band are about to embark on a big UK tour, including several dates with cult indie-heroes The Vaselines. I hope to catch them at the Portland Arms in Cambridge on November 16th.
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