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Looking For Today

RIPPLE Psychedelic West Coast rockers get stuck in the past Within the increasingly clustered labyrinths of 70s revivalism, bands generally skew toward one of two stylistic outlooks: either the melodic, popcentered effervescence of the flower power generation or the sinister, fuzzed-out doom of rock’s darker passages. LA’s

The Rare Breed fall squarely into the latter. Their seven-track debut channels an authentic slice of head-bobbing psychedelia, Nixon-era paranoia and eyeball-rattling bad acid trips. Looking For Today isn’t about the individual songs as much as it is about tapping into that claustrophobic 70s doom metal vibe. Druggy riffs, chugging tempos and sharp, freewheeling solos abound on tracks like Mountain Of Dreams and Echo From The Sun. The pitfall into which this album falls, however, is that in reverentially conjuring a certain sound, the individual tracks bleed together into a tepid brew of familiar-sounding riffs and Ozzy-inspired vocals. Looking

For Today serves up its fair share of dashboard-tapping moments but the problem is that you’ve heard it all before. FOR FANS OF: UNCLE ACID & THE DEADBEATS, BLOOD CEREMONY, CHURCH OF MISERY