Watch out! Perpetual Groove is attempting to invade the deepest crannies of your already sparse attention span. I’ve found it mentally impossible to concentrate on anything while listening to the band’s second album, All This Everything. If you’ve got say, oh, I don’t know, sixty-seven minutes to do absolutely nothing, than this album might be for you. It jumps from one jam to another, yet remains cohesive enough to never lose you. In fact, it keeps a dangerous grip around your neck and never lets go. And yes there are lyrics, but they only serve as passageways between worlds of mind-fucking instrumental explorations (pardon the expression, but I feel the need to warn you).
Over the course of the album, if you’re willing to submissively relax and let it take hold of your synapses, you’ll feel tense at times and completely relaxed at others. You might find yourself as happy as the prison custodian working Martha Stewart’s cell wing, and other times easily capable of harnessing all the built-up rage boiling inside of you. Or maybe that’s just me, and the fact that ever since I listened to All This Everything, my sense of reality has been slightly skewed. Let’s just say, this album messes with your emotions. Try out “Gone ‘Round The Twist” if you’re not following me and listen for the little man in the speaker.
The lighter side of the album shines through too, and generally speaking, the record is full of bright horizons featuring bubbly guitar lines provided by the talented Brock Butler and atmospheric layering of splashy psychedelic backgrounds propelled by the man on the keys, Matt McDonald. Albert Suttle (drums, percussion) and Adam Perry (bass) drive the music through all the twists and turns, and admirably at that. And all of the pieces are collected and arranged in a concise manner that displays the versatility of Grammy-winning producer Robert Hannon (OutKast, Pink, Matchbox Twenty).
This four-piece from Savannah, Georgia knows a thing or two about jamming. Now they have the studio album to prove it. They also know something or other about hypnotism. They have my mental state to prove that.
