Released

A real monster and a real double-album. Yeti feels like the work of a band with so many ideas and so much enthusiasm for those ideas that they couldn’t stop themselves from playing all over each other and the tape itself. It’s one of the few things I’vve ever heard that actually feels psychedelic in that it is hard to imagine the people who made it were entirely of sound mind and body (and that is not an insult). “Burning Sister” sounds like The Kinks, maybe chasing a truck of their own gear, already on fire, and “Archangels Thunderbird” is like a different version of Black Sabbath, with a woman much scarier than Ozzy singing. The three long improvisations that close the album suggest an anarchist version of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and who’s to say that’s not exactly what Amon Düül II was?

Sasha Frere-Jones

Suggestions
1975-1977  cover

1975-1977

Seishokki
Crown of Creation cover

Crown of Creation

Jefferson Airplane
Superjudge cover

Superjudge

Monster Magnet
Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man cover

Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man

The Bob Seger System
Gilles Zeitschiff cover

Gilles Zeitschiff

Sternenmädchen, Cosmic Jokers
Autobahn cover

Autobahn

Kraftwerk
Razamanaz cover

Razamanaz

Nazareth
Stand! cover

Stand!

Sly & the Family Stone