After a
longplayer on our own copaseDisques label and a mini-album on 12” the
Royal Flares from Munich finally arrived at the format more representative of 60s garage punk than any other: the 45 single. The
Royal Flares don’t hesitate to put a grenade on each side. Guaranteed to catapult your feet on any garage dance floor, be it living room or night club.
“Time Is A Tale” is an up-tempo psych-folk-rocker with a razor-sharp riff and cool melody, unmasking time as a fairy tale told by clocks, with a guitar-break causing the clock hands to whirl in the head and the soles on the floor.
“Tell Me Something” uncompromisingly races through a one way street, no right, no left, just straight ahead full throttle into 1966. What again was time? Ah, yes, right, a fairy tale.
The
Royal Flares themselves replace the clock hands on the cover of their 45, and on the back cover, very “
royal”, they join King Ludwig II., the hitherto most psychedelic visionary of their hometown. Time is a tale.