''...this wildly wonderful psychedelic mirage''
Here's a smashing review for 'Sarum Sounds' on the Sunday Experience blog site. Certainly one of the better blogs around, writer Mark Barton pens deeply poetic and picturesque words and a million thanks you's are due to him for his kind support !
Beaulieu Porch
A very brief mention for this nugget, this I hasten to advise is your suggested listening acquirement for day – the Beaulieu Porch who are doing a limited deal whereupon you can nab all their albums – four in total for less than a packet of smokes – how ridiculous is that. Of course we’ve had occasion to mention Beaulieu Porch is passing in long since forgotten dispatches – new full length ‘Sarum Sounds’ employs a more edgy and fractured tone and finds them in a somewhat schizoid melodic frame of mind as they tunnel their way deep into the fragmenting firmament of the psychedelic eye, the pastoral posies of the past replaced by a scuzzing kaleiodoscopia which admittedly still bears the trademark Ooberman styled lilts yet now revolves and orbits a twin mooned mosaic whose influence freewheels between the luck of eden hall (none more so than on the sci fi psyche out grooves of opener ‘giant supermen’) and the doleful lions. That said plenty of Std Barrett and Keith West motifs daub and colour this wildly wonderful psychedelic mirage the latter most notably on the breathlessly aching and cosmically cooled ‘goodbye sarum’ while the day-glo’d new wave freak out ‘Thursday sound revival’ hints of an untamed crooked crafting that wouldn’t look far out of place on ‘SF Sorrow’. All said on this brief first hearing our favourite moment by far ‘june’ is sumptuously trimmed in baroque corteges sighed in ghost like ethereal weaves of lulling chime motifs and genuflecting string arrangements (see Ooberman) which by the close fracture and frazzle into a searing haze of rabbit hole falling psychosis.
Here's a link to the Sunday Experience;
and, inevitably, a link to the Beaulieu Porch Bandcamp page;
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