Psychic Baos
Nuh-Uh: Death of Bob Plant [CS; Magnetic South]

Casting Robert Plant in the role of the Walrus, Psychic Baos toss the venerable rock icon into a skinny coffin as to pronounce the end of glamorous rock star trappings. Calling him Bob seems to further disturb the Hammer of the God, placing him as your next door neighbor with the yard full of rusty cans and busted out cars. That guy, whose good-time drinking buddies show up unannounced and relive their glory days on weekend afternoons in the garage—turns out you’ve been living by Will Johnson all along; the warble of garage psychedelia penetrating the poorly soundproofed dwelling. Nuh-Uh is the end of rock and roll pretense and though it borrows nothing from Plant or Zeppelin, it does hint at the nostalgic refrain that music once meant something even if the words just sounded poetic and the melody was just loud to piss off your parents or the uptight community. Johnson lets it all fall loosely, like the buttoned-down Plant. Maybe there’s a beer gut showing and some bald patches on ol’ Bob Plant, but Johnson and crew strut with the same thunder no matter the stage.

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