Album number 25 from the extraordinarily prolific Black Watch, the power pop/1960s mod project of John Andrew Fredrick is even more expansive than usual. It’s a double, for one thing, clocking in at 21 songs and 67 minutes, and elaborately arranged, incorporating strings alongside standard rock instruments.
The long form allows Fredrick to try on any number of rock-adjacent styles, from the plaintive, near-folky minimalism of “The Hook Stuck,” to the echo-shrouded, Black Angels-esque garage of “Much More,” to the Apples-in-Stereo-style fuzz bop of “Surely You Rally.” Sure, it’s mostly mildly psychedelic Beatles/Kinks lineage guitar rock, akin to the output of other lifers like the Bevis Frond and Anton Barbeau. However, there’s….

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