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Described as “Andy [Cabic]’s mixtape to the world”, these are Vetiver’s versions of favourite obscure-to-extremely-obscure sounds. You can almost hear the original dust in the grooves and you need to brush off some of those 70s-era adjectives like “mellow” and “choogling” to describe the music on the record. Seriously good musicians in the Vetiver family – Otto Hauser, Kevin Barker, ‘Farmer’ Dave Scher and honey-toned Cabic himself - are joined by an ethereal Vashti Bunyan (‘Sleep A Million Years’) and Michael Hurley (appearing on his own ‘Blue Driver’). The selection of songs is inspired, including Townes Van Zandt, Norman Greenbaum and Bobby Charles and my only criticism would be that they don’t give enough information about the originals. It’s the work of a band in love with the West Coast folk tradition and very pleasurable, the sort of record you could easily light up and chill out to. Vetiver - making retro respectable.
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