Sonic Flowers - Beatitude (Private Label, No Ref. Number, 2003)

 

Another brilliant album right out of the city of Nuremberg around organist / singer Peter Kern and bassist Jo Munzert, both of whom already played with Mark Lee (see Surfadelics + Honey Machine) with the excellent Pickles in the 90s.

This is the 2nd Sonic Flowers CD after the 1st one titled “The First Case” two years ago. These Germans also appeared in Swamp Room split 45 with The Splashdowns, performing their garage punker “Out Of My Mind”, which appears in their 1st CD too. The “Beatitude” includes a variation of sounds like garage punk, beat and pop that they match perfectly together and the result is a wonderful record that will accompany me along the hot summer of 2003. The CD opens with an organ-drenched tune, titled “Reason To Love” that reminds me a lot of the sounds of the Norwegian garage tree of the Cosmic Dropouts, The Lust-O-Rama and The Kwyet Kings. “Reason To Love” is not the only garage punk song in this CD (”Phantom” is one more tight punker) though the highest moments in here are the perfect pop gems that the long year experience of Peter Kern and Jo Munzert, ex-members of The Pickles, guarantee to be such. You will be at least pleased to listen to songs like “Searching”, “Lager And Lime”, “Not Too Late” and “The World Is Not Enough”. The whole CD is great with very good production and it’s pity that it hasn’t been released from a well-known label.

8 out of 10    -Source

Sonic Flowers - Beatitude (Private Label, No Ref. Number, 2003) FLAC   320

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