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Citay
Dream Get Together
By Jesse Jarnow
Before the jam band world plunged into hideous funk and techno bawlderization, jam bands were known, mainly, for sounding like the Allman Brothers. Twin guitars, playful and searing. Lots of organ. Quasi-soulful vocals. A decade after psychedelia overtook the indie rock underground, it has come full circle to Dream Get Together, the third album by the San Francisco scenester semi-supergroup Citay, who sound a lot like the first wave of jam bands, with names like the Mad Hatters and Solar Circus.
Citay captures, too, a bit of those acts' doe-eyed innocence — enough so that when songs like "Hunter" and the opening "Careful With That Hat" erupt into noodly guitar climaxes, it still kinda seems okay. In part this is because of intentionally anti-climactic moves, like the drone-landing of "Secret Breakfast," which nearly segues into the opening strums of "Mirror Kisses." While guitarist and songwriter Ezra Feinberg has a lightness of touch that leaves him on the sun-stroked side of the clouds, the riff-mongering boogies (like the title cut) still pile up. A disc-closing cover of Galaxie 500's "Tugboat" puts the problem in broader perspective: not enough hooks in them clouds.
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