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PSYCHEDELIC quartet, Shah Jahan have a predominant bass-led tracklisting, looking like they’ve stepped out of the Summer of Love.

Hailing from Chicago, their debut release gained them a feature on Fred Perry Subculture who praised the foursome for bringing a radiant form of psych to their home-town, something rarely heard of in the Windy City.

Tracks such as Sunset Moon frolic amongst a mysterious set of harmonies and eastern guitar. It’s easy to see similarities to the Sgt. Pepper album as well as Supergrass and in parts The Who, also quite possibly Oasis.

Groovy riffs and mind curdling hypnosis enraptures Shah Jahan, promoting a world of empty pandemonium just like Temples and The Stone Roses.

The sitari sounding warms the cockles of the soul, Between Us Two being the track exhuming this feeling. It’s a real shame these lads are American, well for us Brits anyway. Let’s hope they’ll be crossing the Atlantic sometime soon.

Take a listen to their debut below. - Lauren Jones - URBANISTA UK blog

Shah Jahan
August 2015

Chicago has never had much of a psychedelic music scene, at least compared to San Francisco and London in the 60s or LA and Liverpool in the neo-psych 80s. Sure, the Windy City has had a small cadre of trippy rock acts over the years—HP Lovecraft and Aorta in the 1960s; Smashing Pumpkins (circa Gish) and The Luck of Eden Hall in the late 1980s—but Chicago is a bit more “meat and potatoes” than other big cities, even when it comes to music.

Shah Jahan is a young four-piece who call Chicago home. The group, which consists of Patrick Tsotsos, Trevor Pritchett, Nick Dehmlow and Brendan Peleo-Lazar, gets the look and sound of psychedelic rock just right: mod clothes and groovy sounds that will appeal to fans of all the classic bands (especially Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones circa Their Satanic Majesties Request), 80’s revivalists (Echo & the Bunnymen, The Stone Roses) and contemporary upstarts The Horrors and Temples.

Shah Jahan is a relatively new enterprise (we caught up with them at Chicago’s Cobra Lounge recently for what was the band’s seventh live performance to date) with just a handful of recorded songs available online. “Sunset Moon” is dreamy beat-pop with dead cool vocals; “Pink Noise” would do The Velvets and The Bunnymen proud for the guitars alone; “Between Us Two” harkens back to The Beatles and their countless paisley imitators.
- See more at: https://www.fredperrysubculture.com/music-news/11020/shah-jahan#sthash.fWOa1rKG.dpuf - Fred Perry subculture

Sunset Moon is on their rotation for things they listen to - Music Manual online blog

Want to join the jingle janglers and drumming dreamers? Join Shah Jahan, the Chicagoans that took the spiritual 60’s and went off running. The music off their self-titled album makes complete sense when looking into their band name. Shah Jahan was an actual man in history. Shahabuddin Muhammad Shah Jahan was the fifth Mughal Emperor of India from 1628 to 1658. The Indian sitar and cymbal influences can be heard in the music, with that Moorish/Spanish and psychedelic rock influences as well. A global feast, really. Listen to “Between Us Too” from their album below. - No Country for new Nashville

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The end of the of 2015 is upon us and here are our favorite 50 songs of the year: we dug real deep and our hope is for you listen to this mix and find some new favorites that you may have missed… Featuring songs from Nicolas Jaar, LOLAWOLF, Jamie xx, Young Thug, Kendrick Lamar, Chromatics, MOTHXR, Whilk & Misky, Shah Jahan, Beach House, TOPS, Leon Bridges, Willis Earl Beal, D’Angelo and the Vanguard, KANEHOLLER + much more. Check out the full list below, and listen to the Spotify playlist TMB:Top 50 Songs of 2015 below. - Billy G. Minimal Beat DJ and owner