Obsessive music listeners know the feeling all too well. The feeling you get when you hear a great song for the first time and have to stop your world for a minute in order to permanently burn a mental image of that exact moment into your brain. For example, way back in 1978 the late John Peel introduced the world to The Undertones by playing “Teenage Kicks” two times in a row on his radio show. Later that night, he declared that he enjoyed the song so much that he would award it 28 stars out of 5. When he passed years later, Peel had the phrase “Teenage dreams so hard to beat” emblazoned on his headstone. Now that’s commitment.

Personally, my music collecting stems from an incessant need to recreate moments like the first time I heard Nirvana, or the first time I laid my hands on a copy of Let It Be. Replacements, not Beatles. Rarely does a day go by when I don’t hear the opening chords to “I Will Dare” ringing on and off in my head. As a result, I will listen to almost anything that comes my why. A lot of it sucks. Some of it is great. Very little of it is music that I could actually see myself listening to until I die. Will I be droppin’ science all over, bumpin’ around town while drivin’ a Range Rover when I’m 68? I doubt it.

“Feed,” the second track off of Vitamin Seed’s debut LP, is a great song. A bass-heavy psychedelic romp, “Feed” is one of those truly exceptional songs that is so perfect in execution and capturing the naïve mind that exists somewhere between young love and young lust, which at that age are one in the same. Teenage dreams indeed. Even more surprising is the fact that these ideas are so articulately expressed by actual teenagers, as none of the members of Vitamin Seed are any older than 18. Well fuck me sideways.

Hailing from the greater-Boston area, Vitamin Seed are bass-player and lead-singer Zachary Levine-caleb, guitarist Neev Blume, drummer Motoki Otsuke, and Patrick Colin Walsh on the synthesizer. Wildly, for a band from New England they sound like they’d fit in more comfortably in the scene that originated the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction. No bones about it, these guys know how to mix funk and psychedelia, like on “Twisted Trunk” where Levine-caleb busts out with some of the fattest bass notes in recent years. Or album closer “Purple Rain,” which features what is either some crazy-ass drumming or really inventive sampling, I’m not sure which. On top of that, the fact that they have the sack to cop the title of Prince’s most popular tune is wicked awesome in itself.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to actually purchase Comet Crystal Drip at the moment since Vitamin Seed are labelless, a shame given the relative success of some other truly atrocious Boston groups. Instead, you’ll just have to live with downloading the record at no cost, since the group has been gracious enough to post it online. So, you have no excuse for avoiding this album. You will download it, and you will like it, and you will play it over and over again. With God as my witness, you will play it over and over again

Download the album here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/0uksqe

Track List:
1. Bring The Number Down
2. Feed
3. Devil’s Promise
4. Waterfall
5. Twisted Trunk
6. Hydroponic Tea
7. Running In Circles
8. Purple Rain