Shizuka, we are told, specialise in dark, atmospheric
psychedelia
. Well perhaps, if psychedelia occupies the ambient space
between The Shaggs playing their local hall, Syd Barrett at
Olympia and your local youth club ban circa 1972. Dodgy
intonation, occasional effect-pedal-led guitar heroics and
everything dragged down to slow strumma-strumma chords.
Psychedelia seems to become a shorthand for a foreshortened time-period and comes to envelop the early 70s pub band. That was the recuperation of the real thing, though, which had been a garage aspiration beyond what could sensibly be achieved, a mobility, a volatilisation of the song form. Not then or now this drab.