Back in 1994, when Stephen Malkmus sang, “Say goodnight to the last psychedelic band/From Sac'to, Northern Cal.” on Pavement’s “Unfair,” he could have been predicting Sonic Love Affair, which crept up out of the Sacramento underground some 11 years later to finally bestow a full-length album. Referencing the Symbionese Liberation Army (Patty Hearst’s kidnappers), SLA is top-shelf garage rock revival in the spirit of mid-'60s records by The Pretty Things channeled through the heavy tube-driven amplifiers associated with Motor City luminaries like MC5 and The Stooges. “Street Preacher” opens with a foot-stomping groove, as Curtis Franklin’s Gibson SG unleashes rabid riffs under hyperactive frontman Dylan Blu Rogers’ erratic and snotty praising of an infamous downtown eccentric with facial tattoos who was known for smoking PCP and soapbox preaching. The group's raunchy “Pick Your Switch” and the hard-strutting “Why You No Love Me” both approximate Dutch garage band Q65’s penchant for playing brutally loud R&B with a reckless proto-punk attack.