Psycho and The Birds
Check Your Zoo
The Fading Captain Series, 2006
I wish I had great memories to share of cruising to Mel’s Drive-In with my buddies in a Chevy Impala on the last day of summer vacation while Wolfman Jack unleashed new Psycho and the Birds tracks on the radio all night.
The truth is though that I barely remember playing this record when it came out. I bought it, spun it, filed it, and forgot it.
That’s not because it’s bad. No, it’s a vital artifact of the crazy things that can happen when Robert Pollard and Todd Tobias get together. Check Your Zoo rocks, slips into pretty art-rock drama, and closes with some of the best out-to-lunch trippy clatter on a Pollard record from its year. I didn’t hear that at that time, but I hear it now–and it’s important that we have it.
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