Following 2024’s Natural Magick, the British rock band fronted by Crispian Mills continue their late-career purple patch with their third album in just four years and eighth across their three decades with a kaleidoscopic, unabashed high-octane dive into 60s-style psychedelia. The epic title track, with fantasy game-play video and multi-section proggy structure, meaty guitars and multiple overdubs is the centrepiece, part tongue-in-cheek indulgence, setting the tone for the album. A mix of family story, myth, mysticism, and cosmic imagination, it sits enjoyably somewhere between parody and infectious love for the pyschedelic and the utterly over-the-top. Other highlights include the catchy, clap-along opener Lucky Number, Good Money’s syncopated 90s grooves and eastern flavours, Charge of The Light Brigade’s rallying cry, Broke As Folk’s sliding fusion of prime Pink Floyd and a cinematic spaghetti western, and Be Merciful’s gentler acoustic and powerful build harks a little in style to their 1996 debut album K, as well as echoes of that era of The Verve and Primal Scream. Dust Beneath Our Feet is a catchy, tender, cosmic closer with pleasing Hammond organ, mouth organs vibrant guitar soloing. Why not” If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing full on. Cinematic, mind-bending, and most entertaining. Out on Strange F.O.L.K.
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