Wild Weeeds | After the Farmers
Is there such a thing as “mellow” garage rock? On paper, the concept seems like a profound contradiction, and yet the new five-song EP from the Wild Weeeds—a long-running quartet from Columbia County—makes it sound like the most natural (not to mention alluring) thing in the world. The band plays it loose and raw on After the Farmers while simultaneously delivering nature-friendly lyrics with a seriously laid-back attitude: “Fine T,” the EP’s opening track, is an infectious three-chord rocker that finds frontman Lou Weed hazily listing all the lovely teas that can be concocted from a variety of roots and herbs. The rest of the record (which includes a winning cover of the Farmers’ “Burn My Bridges”) follows a similarly bare-knuckled-yet-bucolic path. By the time the Crazy Horse-esque “Weeeds will save the Earth” clatters to a close, you’ll be fairly convinced that the Wild Weeeds will indeed do just that.
This article appears in August 2023.
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