Uncle Acid – Mind Crawler [2013; Rise Above Records]

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Pulling the second track from their Mind Control album, Uncle Acid open this single with an upbeat but doom-edged piece of psychedelic garage rock, bleary and rough in production, but firm on its riffs and foundations.  The B-side cover of Charles Manson’s “Get on Home” gives a comparatively busy folk rock treatment to the originally stark track, cluttering up the mid-range but otherwise doing a decent interpretive job.  Neither track justifies the price of a physical copy, but as a companion to the Mind Control LP, it’s a neat little curio.