NOLAN POTTER
Music Is Dead CASTLE FACE
8/10
Highlights from the Texan’s lockdown trove of bedroom psych
Nolan Potter kept busy during lockdown, creating several albums’ worth of wild yet intricate psychedelic goodness. As expansive in nature and fulsome in texture as his work with the Nightmare Band, the six songs on Potter’s second outing for Castle Face belie their origins as one-man recordings. That said, the askew baroque-pop of “Holy Scroller” suggests his debt to the similarly selfsufficient Todd Rundgren. Meanwhile, the shifts between face-melting attack and languid sprawl in “Stubborn Bubble” connects Music Is Dead to King Gizzard’s Castle Face tenure. Elsewhere, Potter’s freaky visions feel very much like his own bag.