This healthy serving of psychedelia has one foot placed in the late '60s/early '70s, and another foot placed just as confidently in the '90s era of Kyuss and early Monster Magnet. This album takes these familiar sounds and breaths new life into them, offering a wide variety of colours from track to track. It is filled with excellent playing, a wide variety of material, and carefully thought out transitions that can turn the familiar into the unexpected, but never leaving you feeling cheated.. There are some very obvious, loving debts here to both Kyuss and Monster Magnet, but rather than creating pale imitations, The Kings of Frog Island have spawned something very much their own. I hope that this is not just a �one off�, but rather the opening round of a longer amphibious assault.

The sound seems to have its place between the acid rock of The Beginning and the retro fuzzed out psychedelic rock of Josiah.

This is a bright, literate, affectionate take on hard garage psychedelia, emphasizing the psych salad days of the early '70s and the evil drug underground of the early '90s. Lovers of Colour Haze will dig on The Kings of Frog Island, as well as fans of early Mudhoney, the classic early '70s underground, Bevis Frond, Kyuss, MM, and Jimi Hendrix.

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