Psychograss - Now Hear This
2005 Adventure Music America (#1017 2)
 
Review by David Royko
Chicago Tribune, 12/11/05

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Arts & Entertainment
Sunday, December 11, 2005

THE YEAR'S BEST: RECORDINGS
Our Writers' Top Albums by Genre
BLUEGRASS PAST MEETS FUTURE IN BALANCING ACT
By David Royko
Special to the Tribune
The Bluegrass music world owes much of its vitality to the musical diversity of its practitioners and their collective comfort (and occasional discomfort) with maintaining the traditions of the past while forging ahead into innovative territory. These are some particularly exciting recordings that, together, exemplify the music's balancing of the past with the future.

3. Psychograss: Now Hear This (Adventure Music America)
The only problem with Psychograss is that these guys don't record more often. This quintet is responsible for some of the finest New Acoustic Music (the progressive, instrumental branch of the bluegrass tree) of the past decade, yet this is only their third release. Now Hear This proves once again that, when it comes to creating music that is simultaneously complex and challenging yet accessible and instantly appealing, Psychograss satisfies.