Monento jangle-pop for the #buzz showcase with an album that I would describe, quoting @[luludia], as "a little bag of colorful psychopop candies." Obviously, this album comes recommended by our John Peel, Mr. @[ALFAMA].

Fapardokly - Fapardokly (UIP, 1967)

Fapardokly was one of the many projects of musician Merrell Wayne Fankhauser (born in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 23, 1943). The 12 songs that make up the self-titled LP were recorded at Palmdale Studios in California and initially released under the name Merrell & The Exiles. In truth, Fapardokly never really existed as a band; the album is a collection of songs written by Fankhauser and recorded with various formations and musicians between 1965 and 1966. Among them were John French and Jeff Cotton, who later joined Captain Beefheart's Magic Band. The sound of the twelve songs is typically sixties and influenced by the various currents of psychedelic pop of those years, surf-rock, and jangle folk-rock. Fankhauser, on one hand, drew from the more generic rock and roll of the fifties, while on the other hand, he revitalized it with the psychedelic folk ballads typical of the Everly Brothers and the Byrds' psychedelia. We can find similarities with some moments of the Beatles' sound and perhaps with Buffalo Springfield. In any case, it is likely a rather elementary album, where only an embryonic form of pop psychedelia had developed, but that doesn't make it any less satisfying. On the contrary, I would dare say that this album contains only beautiful songs. What more could one ask for?

#janglepop #sixties #psychedelia

FAPARDOKLY full album - vinyl Psycho reissue (HD)