Family Perfume, Vol. 1 & 2

White Fence has combined both *Family Perfume* volumes into a generous 29-track offering. This is the most prolific of Tim Presley\'s projects; he\'s also played with Strange Boys and Darker My Love, and as a touring guitarist in a reformed version of The Fall. “Swagger Vets & Double Moon” opens sounding equally inspired by scratchy John Lennon demos and those of the late, great Bill Doss from Olivia Tremor Control. Throughout *Family Perfume*, the hissing and scratchy fidelity crackles and pops like early recordings by Ty Segall (with whom Presley collaborated on the earlier album *Hair*). Where Segall’s songs sound rooted in \'60s California surf rock, Presley’s recordings are more influenced by U.K. psychedelia of the same era, as evidenced by \"Do You Know Ida Know?\" With vintage effects and wistful vocal harmonies, “It Will Never Be” swirls and drones like George Harrison covering Syd Barrett–era Pink Floyd (but Presley’s lyrics muse on The Fall’s Mark E. Smith). “Groundskeeper Rag (Man\'s Man)” introduces *Vol. 2* with more experimental acid-rock; check the lysergic leads in “She Relief.”