Psychlona - Mojo Rising (CD)

Mojo Rising - a riffy, desert-stretched-out but still weighted course worthy of the band’s moniker — hits with a bit of Clutchy blues in “Big River” and a whole lot of early Fu Manchu-style roll in “Juju,” but it’s the psychedelic thread that ties it all together, whether it’s the brash pub-style riffage of “Down in the Valley” or the jam-into-shove-into-jam-into-slowdown groove in “Burning Cave,” with a spacious lead guitar tone that conjures impossible reaches no matter how much crunch seems to be surrounding.