Psychedelic and dream-like, the drifting key-changer 'Berry Adams' ensures a lush, inspired opening to this, the ninth HIGH LLAMAS album - the first from Sean O'Hagan & Co. since 2007's 'Can Cladders'.
Fans of the underground veterans will be pleased to note that despite this four-year gap, all the base elements of their cinematic 6T's/psyche-out sound remain intact.
Widescreen, lush-stringed instrumental 'Wander, Jack Wander' meanders in aptly-titled and familiar fashion, as does the strange but soothing 'A Rock In May'.
Jazzy and deadpan, 'Woven and Rolled' is a peak moment of surreal, string-fuelled triumph, prior to the harmonica/harpsichord incidentalism of the equally appealing title track.
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Stacatto-warped underwater dance skit 'Angel Connector' serves as a 40-second reminder of the band's trance leanings, but the HIGH LLAMAS' psychedelic Brian Wilson-inspired leanings have the final say during the swinging melancholia of 'Calling Up, Ringing Down'.
Though it sounds a little aimless in places, it's the easy tempo and harmonic exellence of their euphonious sound that gives 'Talahomi Way' its deceptively strong, high-kitsch appeal.
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