Weekly Album: Week of 12/25 - 12/30 - Yeti

This week I listened to Yeti by Amon Düül II. I wanted to end the year off on a good note with an album from a band that has been on my radar for a while from a scene that I really love, but just never really gave them the time of day. Amon Düül II were a German Rock group from the 70s that fit in that Krautrock/Kosmische Musik/Psychedelic Rock or whatever you would like to call it scene at the time in Germany. I certainly wanted to end the year on a good note, and by golly did I! This is a fantastic album! It the missing piece of the puzzle when it comes to this style of music to me and also how other bands are influenced by it. Yeti is a much more fuzzy and rocking album than a lot of the other music I've heard from this scene. This album just comes at you on the rocker numbers. It has fun jams and is just really interesting and engrossing to listen to. It reminds me a lot of late 2010s Osees (at the time Oh Sees) which makes sense because John Dwyer always said he got a lot of inspiration from these German bands. He always cited Can, though honestly I feel like that era of Osees sound a lot more like this album. The rockers are just some very amazing fuzzed out Psychedelic numbers. Amon Düül II are not afraid to get more experimental and not so rocking with it too, which is always the fun part about these bands. A song like "She Came Through The Chimney" is the prime example of this on the album. Things relax a little bit with some clean guitar and bongos while these wild melodies play in one year and these beautiful strings play in the other ear. What a fantastic little track, and it really serves as a great interlude in the middle of the album. Everything about all of this just works in my brain so fantastically. The production is perfect for this kind of sound and is actually quite good for the era. Everything sounds rather clean and I can hear all the layers pretty well. The main album does all this with some real brevity for an album of this nature, but this is just where the fun begins. There is another 23 minutes of improvised jams acting as the album's second side which are just great fun to listen to. They really go all out and wander wildly. It feels insane that some of these jams start the way they do considering where they end up. I truly love this album and am extremely glad I listened to it and that it was my last album of the year. 10/10

It has been a pleasure reviewing all these albums for anyone reading this. I know there aren't many of you out there, but I want to say thank you to those that are here right now, or whenever you are reading this. Sometime this week, though I plan on it being up tomorrow, I'm going to do a Postmortem of sorts on the Weekly Album project. I'll just be talking about my thoughts and feelings on it and also doing a little bit of data analysis about all the albums. See you then!