Chris Allison is known for work in animation and the rock outfit Lord Loud, launching the garage geared flair of Floral Fauna with the smart scuzz shredding debut of “When You Smile”. Featured off the upcoming album Pink and Blue available December 9, Allison and crew orchestrates an anachronistic nod to the staples of 45 singles of the psyched-out 60s. The brash brew alludes to the elaborate overtures of the lysergic lens concept works that elevate the standard of electricity fueled balladry into the arenas of odysseys, oracles, orcs and middle earth murmurings.

“When You Smile” sounds like a modern classic shaped out of leftover mod put-down song. Floral Fauna accentuates the tones that point to that cornerstone where the two-cycle huffing set began following the flower power parades and upheavals of revolts, demonstrations and the importance of letting your hair down and letting it grow long. Chris arranges the track with a snotty and stuck-up strutting rhythm that lampoons the song’s subject with the titular schoolyard slam of because you’re ugly when you smile that bops like a bully straight out of some sort of street turf claiming gang. Floral Fauna turns the attitude all the way up until entertaining the more hedonistic tinges of woodwind lead breakdowns and freak-out blocks that carries the song to a close on a jubilant note.