Release Date: September 18th 2024. Record Label: Off The Record Label. Formats: CD/DD
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon - Track Listing:
1.Inside And Rolling 08:11
2.Dream Saturn 03:01
3.Strange Colours Of The Sun 04:11
4.From The Grave 02:39
5.Lounge Path 02:36
6.Electric Crater 04:16
7.Concrete Psych 11:29
Members
Marc Fien - Drums.
Tjeerd de Jong - Vocals/Guitars/Bass.
Review
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon is the debut full length album from Psych/Desert/Stoner Rock Duo Canyon Company who perform a blend of KYUSS and FU MANCHU inspired sounds with epic vocals that have deep love and respect for Ozzy Osbourne. The sounds of the desert have a slight Blues Rock twinge and down-tuned fuzzier energy than I originally anticipated which gives Canyon Company a more organic and livelier sound within the progressively charged opening track of Inside And Rolling.
The song has different styles of Desert Rock with a flourish of Blues Rock and warped Psychedelics that transforms into a muffled style of Space Rock. The Occult Rock and Proto-Doom energy of the track begins to appear which allows the band to move between flashes of 1970’s Hard Rock and 1990’s Stoner Rock with freakish noises appearing that dominates the musical landscape.
The next batch of songs are quite shorter compared to the opening eight minutes of Inside And Rolling which allows Canyon Company greater creative moment by playing a subtle style of Punk Rock and Garage Rock with the sound being quite raw, aggressive and quite honest with the fast-paced sounds that appears on the sublime tracks of Dream Saturn, Strange Colours Of The Sun and From The Grave.
This part of the album is more Blues Rock and Punk Rock based with some trippy Psychedelic passages which feels like a daring take on the classic Californian Stoner sound. Canyon Company feel like they’re from that part of the world instead of The Netherlands where the band originates from. The use of multiple levels of guitar reverb and feedback allows the record to have quite a chaotic sound in places but this allows the record to be quite thrilling and inventive within its own right.
Fifth track Lounge Path feels slightly out of place with Canyon Company playing a laid back Soft Rock number which is quite Jazzy and Post-Rock in places but allows the band to show a different side to their music before returning to the Stoner Rock battlefields for the final two tracks of Electric Crater and Concrete Psych.
Electric Crater and Concrete Psych are the heaviest and freakiest parts of the record with the emphasis on Psych Rock exploration with a superb combination of Grunge and Prog Rock attitudes which sounds quite different to the other tracks on the album.
The final track of Concrete Psych is eleven minutes of the band deconstructing the overall style of the Stoner Rock sound and rebuilding everything with a Proto-Metal vibe. There's even an epic Drone Rock aspect that comes into play on the later stages of the track. Though for the most part, imagine BLACK SABBATH jamming with KYUSS and that’s the best way to describe Concrete Psych and the album as a whole.
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon is quite a vivid collection of tracks that offers a different take on the standard Desert/Stoner Rock sound that will surprise you along the way. This allows Canyon Company to release a mighty fine debut record that I’m hoping to hear more great music from the band in the near future.
Excellent and Highly Recommended.
Words by Steve Howe
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