Psych-pop quartet the Fletcher Pratt split the difference between the garage rock scene that gripped their native Detroit at the start of the 21st century and the more ambitious psychedelic leanings of Elephant 6 bands the Lilys and Cotton Mather. The combination works wonders, both adding more melodic and structural interest to primal three-chord rock and giving some much needed immediacy and heft to a style that can occasionally be a little too precious.
Taking their name from the noted science fiction author Murray Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956), the Fletcher Pratt formed in D...