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VARIOUS ARTISTS: Don’t Press Your Luck: The In Sound Of 60’s Connecticut [Sundazed]

Subtitled Garage And Psych Howlers From The Vaults Of Trod Nossel Studios ’66-’68!, this is a suitably solid-gone tribute to the Constitution State’s mid-’60s garage scene. It’s a riot of fuzztone guitars, Vox amps and Ham-mond grooves, of improbably clean-cut, gee-whiz all-American kids sporting Roger McGuinn bowl cuts, ludicrously tight strides and Cuban-heeled boots. Each track follows the same tried-and-true formula, namely the ridiculously named beat combos (George’s Boys, Bram Rig Set, Uranus And The Five Moons, to list a few) banging out endearingly amateurish takes on the British Invasion and, in particular, the Stones, the Yardbirds and the Animals (plus a little Who and Them for good measure). It’s infectious, dumb fun, a lovingly compiled souvenir of a long-gone, innocent era. If you’ve grown tired of your Nuggets and Pebbles compilations, consider this a worthy addition to your collection of adolescent pre-punk attitude gone crazy. Bonus Material: The double-12-inch, gatefold vinyl version has five exclusive tracks. [www.sundazed.com]

—Neil Ferguson