Roy’s Garage

Roy returns with stories of alien enlightenment, but with tales of personal vision. We now know the man behind Roy is Patrick Lefler, a psychedelic scholar whose deep musical knowledge is run through a panoply of archaic and homespun devices to create the sound of Roy. Welcome to Roy’s Garage, where both wow and flutter rule and all must observe the law of diminishing track widths.

The LP’s side A opens with In The Garden Defeated, a sly nod to one of the sixties most renowned singles and what follows is a succession of 8 quick hits of succinct psych pop, ranging from the cold fact garage stomp of Let Me Tell Ya to the Wilson-esque pocket symphony of Where Did My Mind Go? Side B offers a more expansive vision within the Roy universe with its sprawling modal jams filled with free fuzz riffing and cascading acoustic leads, all culminating in the sage advice of a knowing guide in album closer As Long As You’re Feeling. Projecting forth from his mind’s eye, Roy declares he is “not afraid to be a freak” and “it’s time to love myself” and in doing so Roy’s Garage acts brother and sister no doubt peer through time and space smiling.