Licorice Roots

What if, instead of splitting off to form Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, and The Apples In Stereo, the original core members of the Elephant 6 collective had formed one band that incorporated Jeff Mangum's scratchy lo-fi folk, Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss' trippy experimental tendencies, and Robert Schneider's knack for clever pop hooksNULL The results would have sounded very much like the Delaware psych-pop trio The Licorice Roots. In fact, The Licorice Roots pre-date the recording careers of all three of those bands, but the band's low profile, coupled with wide gaps between releases, has made them hidden treasure for all but the most devoted fans of modern psychedelia.

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