Various Artists – Garland Records: Pacific Northwest Fuzz Box – Vinyl LP

• Limited edition transition color record – only 23 copies in the universe, and every copy is unique! Transition records are the records made while the press is transitioning from one color to another. Comes fully packaged in custom jacket!

• A FUZZ-GUITAR CASCADIAN CACHE!
• UNEARTHED REELS FROM SALEM OREGON’S GARLAND RECORDS!
• CUT BY KEVIN GRAY, AND PRESSED ON TRANSITION COLOR VINYL AT THIRD MAN PRESSING IN DETROIT!
• A RAUCOUS MIX OF ORIGINALS, COVERS, COVETED RARITIES AND UNISSUED MONSTERS!

The drive’s cranked all the way up and the needle’s fully in the red for this set of uptempo garage-punk stompers from Salem’s enigmatic Garland Records. Packed with killer, crunchy bass, pummeling drums, in-your-face vocals, and (of course) mountains of fuzz-guitar! Loaded primarily with originals, plus distorted deviations of select known numbers, all ranging from impossibly rare to previously unreleased! CD includes two bonus cuts not available on the LP.

With Sundazed Music’s acquisition of the Garland Records catalog, you’re in for a coastal flood of great garage rock, pysch, soul, and even some country. But it all starts here with Pacific Northwest Fuzz Box, named after the commonly used distortion pedals that (at least according to our ears) can be heard reverberating through your speaker cones on every track.

One thing that makes this collection extra unique is the abundance of original material. Stellar cuts like “It’ll Come Easy,” “Hip Girl,” and “Transparent Soul” carry the same level of songsmanship you’ll get from the blistering covers of “Black Is Black” (Los Bravos), “Suzie Q” (CCR), “Hit The Road Jack” (Ray Charles) and more! Something fuzzy was happening in the Pacific Northwest and BeatRocket is stoked to be the ones to tell you all about it.

Side A
1 The Other Side– It’ll Come Easy
2 The Zero End– Your Mind Was Never Free
3 Smack– Suzie Q
4 Grant’s Blueboys– Love Is Such A Game
5 The Zero End– Blow Your Mind
6 The Third Stone– True Justice
7 White Feather– Transparent Soul

Side B
1 Grant’s Blueboys– If I Were A Carpenter
2 The Heard– Night Life
3 The Third Stone– Take It As It Comes
4 The Ultimate– Black Is Black
5 Stop– Hip Girl
6 Smack– Hit The Road Jack