Harsh Toke - Light Up and Live CD

Tracklisting: Rest in Prince Weight of the Sun Light Up and Live Plug Into the Moon Release Date: November 19, 2013 Label: Tee Pee Records Origin: USA Harsh Toke is the musical equivalent of its own band name: choking and overwhelming, all rough edges and suffocation, yet with an after effect of lightheadedness and euphoria that keeps you coming back for more. Like their spiritual brethren in Earthless and Endless Boogie, Harsh Toke is a band that just wants to kick out the jams, motherfuckers, and keep on doing that until they collapse—or everyone else in the room does. What makes them rather more interesting than any number of other long-form stoner-jam bands is the variety of sounds they incorporate into the mix, starting with the keyboard layers of frontman Gabe Messer, extending into the siren howls and flute meanderings of the 14-minute-plus epic “Weight of the Sun” and finally culminating in the banshee saxophone wails of album closer “Plug In to the Moon”. That song, which is