2020 repress. Recorded on a low budget in early 1968 by students in Oberlin, Ohio and originally released in a run of only 300 copies, Ant Trip Ceremony’s only album, 24 Hours, remains very of it’s time, typifying the zeitgeist of a late 1960s America abundant with the music of an inspired generation. The presence of a «Hey Joe» cover and the album’s current status as a reissue beg for it to be interpreted through the lens of Lenny Kaye’s influential 1972 compilation of proto-punk, Nuggets, and 24 Hours fits predictably into that mold. The band’s version of the standard lies somewhere between The Leaves’ frenetic original and Jimi Hendrix’s laid-back, downtempo interpretation with the album’s 11 other tracks accordingly straddling the line between raucous garage rock and gauzy psychedelia.
Track list
1. Locomotive Lamp
2. What’s the Matter Now
3. Violets of Dawn
4. Riverdawn
5. Hey Joe
6. Outskirts
7. Little Baby
8. Get out of My Life
9. Four in the Morning
10. Sometimes I Wonder
11. Pale Shades of Gray
12. Elaborations