San Francisco's Sugar Candy Mountain release Mystic Hits today, via Royal Oakie!
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Sugar Candy Mountain - "Soak Up The City" via Earbuddy
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Stream Mystic Hits in it's entirety with The Big Takeover
Sugar Candy Mountain - "Soak Up The City" via Earbuddy
Video - MP3 Download - SoundCloud
SF Bay Area based musical group Sugar Candy Mountain is excited to announce their first widely distributed release this December with Mystic Hits — a space-age blast of psychedelic pop and Tropicalia that sounds like it could have reverberated right out of Phil Spector’s echo chamber. Initially self-released by the band in late 2013, Royal Oakie Tapes & Records out of Oakland, CA is giving the album a proper physical release on glorious vinyl and cool cassette tape.
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Originally the bedroom recording project of singer/songwriter/multi- instrumentalist Will Halsey (an SF Bay Area native and music-scene veteran who has played with all sorts of groups, including The Blank Tapes and Papercuts) Sugar Candy Mountain has truly taken on a life of it’s own. Now fronted by Halsey and singer-songwriter Ash Reiter, the group has grown to become a full-fledged live ensemble and a loosely knit collection of friends who help fill-out the recordings with their groovy sounds. Halsey began recording Mystic Hits while staying in Sao Paulo, Brazil and finished the record at home in Oakland, CA. Truly a delight to the senses, the album features far-out artwork by acclaimed artist and long- time friend of the band Jess Willa Wheaton and 13 tracks of psychedelic pop bliss. Anchored by the dual male/female vocals of Halsey and Reiter, the songs weave in and out of tempos and timbres like a lysergic daydream on a summer’s afternoon.
If Brian Wilson had dropped acid on the beach in Brazil and decided to record an album with Os Mutantes and The Flaming Lips, it would sound like this—all psychedelic pop Wall-of-Sound and beach balladry. From the fuzz guitar of “Soak Up the City”, to the electric sitar and 60’s pop vibes of “Lovely Time," to mellow beach ballad “Saudade Love," to the super catchy “Knock Me Down," Mystic Hits is the psychedelic soundtrack for the 21st century, featuring space-age sounds and far-out frequencies from the tripped out tropics.
Artist - Sugar Candy Mountain
Album - Mystic HIts
Release Date - December 16, 2014
Release Date - December 16, 2014
Label - Royal Oakie Records
01. Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit
02. Soak Up The City
03. I'm A Tiger
04. Echopraxia
05. Caroline Mountain
06. Echolalia
07. Knock Me Down
08. Saudade Love
09. Lovely Time
10. Some Body
11. Cactus Dream
12. Breakfast In Bed
13. Hot Topics, Hot Tropics
01. Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit
02. Soak Up The City
03. I'm A Tiger
04. Echopraxia
05. Caroline Mountain
06. Echolalia
07. Knock Me Down
08. Saudade Love
09. Lovely Time
10. Some Body
11. Cactus Dream
12. Breakfast In Bed
13. Hot Topics, Hot Tropics