What have we always liked about psych-rock? What still works so well? Time. Like the Pink Floyd of the epic hours (period Ummagummalet’s say), in the wake of a whole world of patient builders of sound scaffolding that started from almost nothing and became — very gradually — immense, the five tracks on the album A Murmur, Boundless to the East, by the Montreal trio Yoo Doo Right (Justin Cober, Charles Mason, John Talbot), increase in scale until they occupy all the physical and sonic space. The patterns are still very simple, but the additions are more varied than ever, kraut-rock here, drum’n’bass there, even spaghetti western in The Failure of Stiff, Tired Friends. From room to room, under the impetus of director Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, the trio goes from hypnotic to chaos. To end where? Beyond the chaos, to a certain peace. And then we do it again. The band calls it “ post everything “. I call it an endless loop.
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