Wes’s Life

I have found the per­fect gate­way drug into the world of psy­chobilly, an inter­est­ing stand­off in the punk world. The psy­chobilly com­mu­nity decided early on that they would avoid all things polit­i­cal to avoid the prob­lems that plagued the polit­i­cally charged punk world. Also, they found one common theme to unite around: cheesy horror movies. The sound of psy­chobilly is also very dif­fer­ent from what you might expect, they include the stand­ing bass from the genre that formed their name: rock­a­billy.

After that little intro­duc­tion to the genre, let me tell you about The Pea­cocks, a Swedish psy­chobilly band. I ran­domly picked up their album when I saw it was get­ting pop­u­lar and quickly found out why. They manage to stay true to the sound of psy­chobilly with­out alien­at­ing new lis­ten­ers to the genre. The sound is pure bliss to my ears and just seems happy and ener­getic. This will def­i­nitely end up in my CD player for the summer as it just has that qual­ity to it that screams summer. They have a few tracks up on their web­site, so I’d give them a listen as the sound isn’t for every­one.

The Pea­cocks

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