SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: TESS PARKS – AND THOSE WHO WERE SEEN DANCING

Tess Parks
And Those Who Were Seen Dancing
Fuzz Club/Hand Drawn Dracula

Tess Parks’ debut Blood Hot really created some critical waves when it was released back in 2013, and rightly so. Yet, we haven’t heard much from Parks since then, except the duo album with Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe in 2018 and until And Those Who Were Seen Dancing, her latest album, just came up.

By the sound of it, psych label Fuzz Club/Hand Drawn Dracula just might be the perfect place(s) for Parks, as her sound has just the right modern psych overtones.

The album includes material that Parks gathered through recent years, and as she explains it, presents just a set of many versions these songs went through before she included them here. And that honing down process seems to have worked exactly as it should have for Parks, as songs like “Old Life”, “Do You Pray”, or “Brexit At Tiffany’s” have an almost perfect balance between old and new psych pop, with Newcombe’s influence seeping in throughout.

And Those Who Were Seen Dancing shows exactly what modern psych pop should sound like and those seen dancing actually should be listening and really enjoying this one too.

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