Marshmallow Overcoat – Songs From All You Need Is Fuzz

(It features 25 songs from the new documentary feature film, and also serves as a 30-year "best of" collection for the American garage-psych maestros.
The deluxe digipak audio CD features three new songs,
including the shimmering paisley pop single "Wait For Her", and also features seven songs on CD for the first time.
A 56-page pdf book, detailing the 30-year discography and recording history of the band, is also included on the disc)Kids in the 1960s made music for the best reason – because they loved it. That sound was called "garage music".
The garage music underground exploded again in the 1980s, and one band – The Marshmallow Overcoat – spread the fuzz and psychedelia from their Tucson, Arizona home for the next three decades.

Their improbable paisley-punk journey – and the hopes and struggles of thousands of other bands just like them – are revealed in All You Need Is Fuzz : 30 years in a garage band, the new feature documentary film by director and renowned garage-music expert Timothy Gassen.

Area Pirata Records now releases the audio CD Songs From The Motion Picture All You Need Is Fuzz.
It features 25 songs from the new documentary feature film, and also serves as a 30-year "best of" collection for the American garage-psych maestros.
The deluxe digipak audio CD features three new songs,
including the shimmering paisley pop single "Wait For Her", and also features seven songs on CD for the first time.
A 56-page pdf book, detailing the 30-year discography and recording history of the band, is also included on the disc.

The band’s amazing three-decade crusade, made on a perpetual shoestring budget, cemented The Marshmallow Overcoat as one of the longest-running garage bands in the history of rock & roll.

Songs From The Motion Picture All You Need Is Fuzz is for
anyone who ever dreamed of being in a band …
… and those who survived that dream.

TRACKLIST

1) Wait For Her 2.19
2) Marshmallow Theme 2.35
3) The Beyond 3.31
4) Your Love 2.12
5) Half A Life 2.04
6) Santa Fuzz 2.07
7) Fly Away 2.06
8) The Light Show 3.28
9) The Knights Of Fuzz 2.24
10) Spell I’m Under 2.59
11) Psilocybic Mind 1.58
12) Our Love Will Survive 2.53
13) Kiss The Tears 2.56
14) Oceans From Home 2.22
15) Dia De Los Muertos 4.30
16) Dead Of Night 2.45
17) The Mummy 2.21
18) Beverly Pepper 2.32
19) 1000 Years Ago 2.38
20) 13 Ghosts 2.17
21) Home 5.19
22) When It’s Dark 2.30
23) Suddenly Sunday 2.29
24) Groovy Little Trip 4.30
25) Walking In This World 2016 7.23

# 1, 2, 25 new & previously unreleasedREVIEWS

THEE PSYCHEDELICATESSEN 12/01/2019

American Garage/Psych band The Marshmallow Overcoat, straight outta Tucson, Arizona, were founded by singer/Garage Rock obsessive Timothy Gassen back in 1986 and although maybe not the best known of the 80s Neo-Psychedelic bands, they had a career that spanned the best part of 30 years of tuning in, turning on and tripping out, playing shows across America and Europe and releasing nine full length LPs along the way. The band’s amazing three-decade crusade, made on a perpetual shoestring budget, cemented The Marshmallow Overcoat as one of the longest-running Garage bands in the history of Rock and Roll. Their first recording deal was with Dionysus Records in Los Angeles who released their first LP, The Inner Groove, in 1987……….The Marshmallow Overcoat couldda bin contenders around the turn of the 90s after the release of critically well received albums on Skyclad/Get Hip Records and exposure on MTV but like many great Psychedelic bands from that era never really got the breaks. Their long strange trip has now been documented in a feature length film, All You Need Is Fuzz : 30 Years In A Garage Band, directed by Gassen. His documentary gives a rare and intimate insider’s glimpse into how a no-budget rock band rehearses, makes records, climbs in a van to take their show on the road and then survives decades of changing musical trends, commercial resistance………and each other. The songs featured in the film have been released by the very groovy Italian Garage/Psych/Punk label Area Pirata Records as a 25 track CD titled…….erm……..Songs From All You Need Is Fuzz that also conveniently works as a "Best Of" compilation of the music of this remarkable band.

The Marshmallow Overcoat exploded on the scene in a kaleidoscopic swirl of Vox keyboards and Amps, Rickenbacker guitars, Ludwig drums, Fender basses, paisley shirts, Beatle boots and everything else that screamed cool 1966/67 with a sound inspired by classic 60s bands such as The Chocolate Watchband, The Doors, The Beatles, The Byrds, Strawberry Alarm Clock and The Electric Prunes. Although their early songs were somewhat raw, by the time their excellent 1990 LP, Beverly Pepper, had landed The Marshmallow Overcoat had developed a shimmering Psychedelic sheen, honing their signature sound with Farfisa organ and 12-string Rickenbacker to the fore. Songs From All You Need Is Fuzz is a treasure chest brimming with Psych Pop gems with the pastoral ‘The Beyond’, ‘The Knights Of Fuzz’, the groovy ‘Kiss The Tears’, the jangling ‘Beverly Pepper’ along with the swirling ’13 Ghosts’ being real highlights. For existing fans of The Marshmallow Overcoat who have followed the band on their long journey this is a real treat with three new songs, including the sublime Paisley Pop single ‘Wait For Her’, and seven songs on CD for the first time. The disc also includes a detailed 56-page pdf book, chronicling the 30-year discography and recording history of the band. For those of you new to the band, Songs From All You Need Is Fuzz is the perfect introduction to one of the more obscure bands from the Neo-Psychedelic 80s and for fans of the "classic" Nuggets bands this is well worth your time. You can check it out/stream it here……..

Lenny Helsing – Shindig #90 04/2019

That Tucson. Arizona garage-psych hedas The Marshmallow Overcoat was in existence for some 30 years from around 1986 is quite an achievement. Doing it on shoestring budget, clocking up countless hours in recording studios to produce a slew of 7" and 12" records and CDs, plus many tours around USA and across Europe is quite another thing.
Helmed by irascible lead vocalist, writer, producer and all round ideas man Timothy Gassen (for if not for this man’s singular vision and infectious passion for such a journey, nobody would’ve even heard of The Marshmallow Overcoat) these 27 tracks soundtrack the movie of the life and times of the group, from the opening chimes of latest. new-to-most-ears "Wait For Her", through the hallucinogenic wastes of ‘Spell I’m Under’, ‘Psylocybin Mind’ and the the Fantastic Zoo’s ‘Light Show’, their organ squealing, tremolo-fuzz sounds to the fore, their mantra a world where everyone digs psychedelic garage-pop

Vote: 4/5

Bertrand Tappaz – Chronique 2018 – 21/01/2019 – VOIX DE GARAGE GRENOBLE

Donc voici une compilation qui couvre les 35 ans de carrière de ces pionniers du Garage Punk Revival / Paisley Undreground américain !
Jusqu’ici je n’avais qu’une copie K7 de leur album de 1988 et un single datant de 1991 tant il est vrai que ce groupe ne jouit pas d’une aura et d’un distribution en Europe à la hauteur de son gigantesque talent !!!
Ce qui va, je l’espère, être réparé par le film documentaire qui leur est consacré !!! Pour vous le procurer: http://www.purple-cactus.tv/garage-nation/marshmallowovercoat.html.
Et avec ce Best-Of qui vient à la fois en double LP et en CD (avec 3 nouvelles chansons, et 7 autres qui apparaissent sur un CD pour le première fois) les 2 versions contiennent un livret de 56 pages sur la longue et brillante carrière du groupe !
Franchement si vous êtes branché Psych Garage Sixties alors voici une pièce maîtresse du genre !!!
Et pas qu’un peu !
Je me dis que certains vont enfin les découvrir (ou les redécouvrir comme dans mon cas) ! Et ça représente des heures et des heures de bonheur au fils des écoutes car les chansons des Marshmallow Overcoats ne font pas partie de celles qui se consomme et s’oublient aussi tôt !
Clairement cette compilation (mais également l’intégralité de leurs albums en écoute et vente ici : https://marshmallowovercoat.bandcamp.com) montre à quel point il faut réévaluer la place de ce groupe dans l’Histoire du Revival Garage !
Avec la profondeur de certains de leurs titres, le psychédélisme puissant d’autres et l’entrain Fuzz / Organ oriented Garage il y a de quoi plier la gaule des plus exigeants !!!
Le groupe espère qu’il y aura assez de fans intéressés pour revenir en tournée en Europe en 2019 !
Je m’en pourlèche les babines !!!
Et sinon le dernier peut s’acheter & s’écouter chez Area Pirata Rds (qui je me répète est un formidable label).
Album du mois de Voix de Garage !