Circle 60 are back with the bands second album Gods Of Dimension for those not in the know they are a supergroup of well known indie alternative legends who are Cass Browne, Morgan Nicholls, Ade Emsley and Des Murphy who between them have been in among others the Senseless Things, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Muse and Delakota.
The album opens with Exit Planet Zero that is a sort of ident and lead into the full band crashing into Upside Down Mountain Cloud that has a careening out of control riff monster feel, with some hazy psychedelic vocals about that mountain cloud they are obsessed by.
The Sonic Invisible you know those waves of sound that alter your brain, you can't see them, but you know just how much they alter your mind, this tune will leave your mind with no place to hide from the frequencies they are playing about with to distort your thinking.
Hank Spanking Monkey Funk is one of the song titles of the year, a totally crazed place you simply have to go to for lunch, to find out just how out to lunch you really are, the propulsive guitars stutter and brawl.
She Got Bored of you copping Stooges riffs and all sorts of other crimes, she wants you to aim for immortality, these raging guitars will help you on that quest, while trying to rework the Hanky Panky along the way, while sounding a lot like Janus Stark in paces.
Astral Planes opens with a sample of an American reporter talking about UFO sightings, before the heavy rocking sends you rushing to get to the Astral Planes to discover what's really out there beyond your normal reality.
The albums title track Gods Of Dimension is the most 60's psych freak out sounding song on the album, its frazzled at the edges like you've been up all weekend on mind bending psychedelics and want to keep on riding that euphoric wave, while coming down gently, while praising all the gods that keep you in the right dimension, where the spaghetti western style horn section is perfectly at home.
In A Future You Know where things never seem to change for the better, how do we find a way through all the pain and feelings of alienation, well with other worldly sounds in the breakdown that threatens to go prog rock, but instead is far more in love with hard psychedelic sounds.
Mother Laudanum they want to taste your sweet embrace and know just what it does to your head, it's just another drug to trip out on, this has the feelings of a cautionary tale of just how you can lose yourself in an high, while channelling one of the 19th centuries most popular drugs, next they'll be writing about smoking lettuce opium, while using the riffs Captain Sensible sent them to use on this tune.
Along The Way they found another colossal riff to work around and get nice and spacey, they will do anything to see the look on your face again as the guitars go spectral.
Martian Surprise yep they aren't green after all, this has some great effects laden guitar spirals and a hard riffing core. Man V Machine asks questions about who's in charge man or the machines, with a deeply funky groove that is slightly askew it's obvious the Men are winning this battle.
The album closes with In The Bubble has them wandering around in the bands very own hazy bubble keeping them nicely away from the reality of a world gone demented, they want to shut down and block out all the noise from the straight world, just leave them alone with the guitars and they can create there own wonderfully happy bubble to be cocooned in.
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