Brooklyn’s starry eyed soul brothers Vietnam are a curious and bold combo that stirs the murky waters of ‘60s alt-country and rock pyschedelia with a devilish aplomb that is as surprising as it is honest and authentic.  Doused head to toe in a near identical brand of alternative whiskey to that of Bob Dylan and Lou Reed, fusing their lush freewheelin’ souls with evocative Spiritualized blues and hypnotic emotion, this four-piece have produced one of the most cathartic rock journeys since ‘The Neon Bible’.  Their self-titled debut moves seamlessly through a series of loud and loose, open-armed sing-a-longs and trippy soul hymns that embed each acoustic stroke in the sort of rich tapestries woven through ‘Blonde on Blonde’ and ‘Transformer’.  Credit where credit’s due, it sounds like a venture entered into for love rather than lucre and actually works extremely well in a modern context.  ‘Vietnam’ is a fertile breeding ground for anyone who has yet to encounter the vast and all-encompassing back catalogues of the aforementioned maestros; ably swinging from the multi-hued bombast of ‘Step on Inside’, ‘Priest, Poet and the Pig’ and ‘Mr.Goldfinger’, to the acoustically dominated ‘Toby’ and ‘Gabe’.  Lead vocalist Michael Gerner then croons an’ twangs through the melancholy ‘Hotel Riverview’ and the raunchy rabble rouser ‘Welcome to my Room’, while guitarist Joshua Grubb conjures up his own symphonic cool on ‘Summer in the City’ and closer ‘Too Tired’.  A more than worthwhile exercise expressed with a fluency that most rock fans today should readily appreciate.