Taken Back

Rich Ruth’s I Survived, It’s Over self-describes as psychedelic. And it’s psychedelic in the best sense of being too zonked to parse genre distinctions finely.

The hectic saxophone connects the album to an experimental jazz lineage, following in the footsteps of Meditations-era John Coltrane. The electronic washes of “Angel Slide” sidle up alongside of New Age ambient and industrial krautrock. And the noodling guitar of our highlighted track “Taken Back” point to prog-rock experimentation.

Take all of that and roll it up between a Kaiser roll, slathered with mayonnaise, and take a bite of Nashville’s Rich Ruth.

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