Feel It

Chico, California's raw-assed sons of sonic anarchy, Gunge come on with the attitude of the Stooges and the ear-bleeding riffs of first-album Blue Cheer. That's Gunge, not grunge, but fans of both those groups will find much to enjoy in the contents of Feel It!, which features a wild set of demos recorded in 1968 that have lain undisturbed until now. Featuring sundry illuminati from the North California Valley garage scene, had Gunge gotten a release back in the day, they would now be celebrated as hard rocking pioneers. Their sound is a rough-hewn, brutally honest assault that, as the eye-popping artwork implies, literally pisses over most recent hard rock/psych reissues.