Fever Tree

Fever Tree

Fever Tree’s 1968 eponymous debut gets a tasteful remaster that balances the era’s production values with modern fidelity. Fever Tree spans all realms of ‘60s psychedelia, from the baroque trappings rubbing against spaghetti western instrumentation in “Imitation Situation 1” to the acid-rock ballroom blitz of “Where Do You Go?” and the summery Northern California freakout anthem “San Francisco Girls” (which sounds like a soundtrack outtake from the 1968 Jack Nicholson film Psych-Out). There’s even a Pebbles-sounding garage rocker in Fever Tree’s cover of Wilson Pickett’s “Ninety-Nine and One-Half,” teeming with groovy fuzz guitar and go-go Farfisa organ. The band took on more ambitious covers, like a lightshow–friendly reworking of The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” and “We Can Work It Out,” blended here in a nice little medley that plays like Vanilla Fudge’s tripped-out take on The Supremes’ “You Keep Me Hanging On.” The best of these culminates in a cinematic rendition of Buffalo Springfield’s “Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing.”

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