Casting a new mould, Arthur Ahbez takes another step to the side of his previous material and experiments with a cocktail of 60’s sunshine bubble-gum pop and then forces it through a box grater of psychedelic surf rock in his song “Take it Easy.” An ominous opening line, “Hey little girl, scratching the eyes out of the world,” in typical Ahbez fashion, sets up the song as an interlocutor for mitochondrial survival, singing lyrics of journalistic malpractice, teenage cruelty, and a lover’s heartbreak before ending in a passionate yell of desire for a long night of love-making. November 6th sees the release of the long-awaited rock and roll triumph Arthur Ahbez & The Flaming Ahbez. Arthur’s third album expands past his lo-fi acid folk roots into a masterfully woven audio amoe...