This, the second joint release for London’s Bee & Smoke and Welsh Slacyr, “emanates from the cosmology of Demian Castellanos” and judging from the name and the sleeve would appear to have broken free from the Ozric Tentacle’s lair deep beneath Byker Grove.
This is not a bad thing by the way, what slipped from the Ozric’s erm, tentacles I suppose is our gain with this slab of warped psychedelic paranoia. No electronics here - the Ozric connection ends with the sleeve and the ethos – but wave upon wave of swirling squawling guitars powered along by a huge prowling bassline and the howling spirit of (the admittedly perfectly alive) Damo Suzuki. The sound’s not miles away from the Jesus & Mary Chain or Spacemen 3, the chanted mantra “It’s a new way to feel “ pushing the tune up through the absolutely huge swamp of a sound that Art Brut / Pipettes producer John Fortis has somehow managed to capture on record.
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Over on the B-side it’s a much more abstract affair with an Eno-esque piece that would happily score a slow motion death, space landing or a trip going rather wrong, while also conjuring up images of Mulligan & O’Hare tweeking on cow’s udders and parping horns. Worryingly it would also sit quite comfortably over a contempirary dance piece which I really hope isn’t allowed to happen. At one point I realised that it had finished a while ago and I was listening to a helicopter flying over my flat, make of that what you will.
An excellent effort and all on a lovely blue bit of vinyl.
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