If there is indeed a season for every song, Beefheart's "Observatory Crest" is unequivocally late summer. Particularly late summer in Los Angeles. A bright spot via the Captain's oft-maligned lp, Bluejeans & Moonbeams, "Crest" hangs in a liminal space somewhere between revisiting a journal entry and bittersweet nostalgia . . .
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