Oh, Amon Düül II, how I love you. The God’s Dick is one of the greatest debut albums and masterpieces of acid-psychedelic rock of this amorphous "type" of music. This well-fed group of Teutonic hippies has taken Anglo-American acid and psychedelic rock and extremized it, transforming it into a grotesque sabbat, a distorted tribal party, deep within the Black Forest. And they do so with little intention of taking themselves seriously, embracing the taste of the grotesque, the theatricality of over-the-top, Eastern fascination, and darkness, the playful macabre, the fun of goofing around with shrieks, emphatic singing, nonsense, sweet and restless vocalizations from the woodland enchantress Renata Knaup. In the end, it’s psychedelic rock, but it’s also something more, so let the guitars rattle, the percussion tribalize, the bass boom, the violin sizzle, the saxophone hoot, the 12 strings arpeggiate, and the voices transport us to dark nights where Anglo-Saxon acid rock has ended up in Germany, in Hell, to have more fun, extreme, free, without boundaries, without cursed walls. As good hippie rockers at heart, they also pull out irresistible rhythms and riffs, and those percussions... Wonderful from the first to the last second, but "Luziferz Ghilom" and the overflowing 20 minutes of the God’s Dick title track are the two tracks that soar into infinity. I adore you.
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