Sun Araw is Cameron Stallones' group. He's a Texan relocated to Long Beach, CA, and has kept the cowboy and psyche traditions of Texas alive whilst also jamming laidback funk in LA. Stallones is also part of LA group Magic Lanterns.
Heavy Deeds was like 2nd or 3rd Sun Araw release and came at exactly the time we needed to hear the craziness of Sunburned, NNCK etc rationalised into the new psychedelic funk pop. Sun Araw has extended trance chants, bass loops, exotic swamp rock, 80's post vietnam sci-fi blues and R&B slow jamz, slopped and chewed. It's like as if Santana had joined the Ya Ho Wha 13, or War jamming with Royal Trux circa Dogs Of Love, or Stevie Wonder (cover star) choogeling it out with Grateful Dead.
This album contains the lysergic wah-wah trip Heavy Deeds, and the Spacemen 3 bass loop and organ drone of Hustle and Bustle, is this what it's like to be loved by an Afghan Hound? Album highlight The Message puts a cowboy clopping strum next to reverbed and echoed chants, like Ghost Riders in the Sky on ketamine. Album closer All Night Long is over 10mins of slowly building stadium clap bliss. Who knew they would go on to greater depths with On Patrol in 2010.
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