***In summer 2007, just on the heels of recording Marvels of Industry with his band the ARRIVALS, ISAAC THOTZ went on a month long binge of drink and drugs and 1960s psychedelic rock that ended with a self-recorded twelve song demo of acoustic psychedelic pop songs, a collection sounding like Syd Barrett outtakes. At the end of the month, the Arrivals went on tour with Underground Railroad to Candyland, where Isaac showed his recordings to Todd Congelliere (of URTC and owner of Recess Records) and by the end of that week, on a rooftop party at a tenement in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, they’d resolved to start their new mod-psych band. Isaac joined a project Todd C. had been doing with the members of the Dios Malos in L.A., under the name Bible Children They did a handful of shows around L.A. and Chicago, recorded a demo, and broke up in 2009 under the stress of long distance. In summer 2010, Thotz restarted the effort with friends and local Chicago musicians NEIL HENNESSY (LAWRENCE ARMS) on bass, DAVE MERRIMAN (Arrivals) on keys, MIKE OBERLIN (SASS DRAGONS) on drums, and ELI CATERER (SMOKING POPES) on lead guitar as TREASURE FLEET. Cocamotion, Treasure Fleet’s debut release, is a melange of mod and psych inspired indie rock. Cocamotion is a psychpop acid trip though the history of rock n’ roll. If MGMT had come of age with the hard rocking Who or Nirvana rather than arty Brian Eno, Congratulations would have been Treasure Fleet’s Cocamotion. And with bands like Underground Railroad to Candyland, Lenguas Largas, Pangea, this new psych sound is punk’s weird, dirty, drugged-out answer to the folk-punk that’s dominated the scene for the last decade.