Sunray:
Full Circle:
Enraptured:
Out 7th October 2013:
6/10
Lovers of hypnotic, zonked-out psychedelia will already be aware of Jon Chambers' heady brew via his SUNRAY project and will no doubt champ at the bit when Full Circle appears. For me, I'm torn between the long-drawn out motorik instrumental jams on here and the less nagging, more memorable song-based efforts.
So, on the one hand you have the Spacemen 3-cum-Silver Apples flavoured opener "Here To Go", which takes an aeon to rumble past, and the following instrumental "Revelation" which sounds almost the same to these ears, or on the other paw, you've the swaggering single "Take Me There" and the band's druggy take on the fuzzed-up "Baby Honey", originally recorded by The Pastels. I'll plump for the latter since the remainder of the album consists of the pastoral "Golden Dawn" and the Creation-by-numbers Zona Rose, a Jeffrey Lee Pierce number given a respectful re-reading.
There's a full on West Coast feel to the Beatles-esque "Tears At Sunrise" and a healthy slice of the Velvet Underground on the closing "Thru The Night", making Full Circle, well, a full circle of just about reference-point in psychedelia. And you know? It's an album that grows on you with repeated listens but I've got in the habit of starting at track two and going with the trippy flow.
Out 7th October 2013:
6/10
So, on the one hand you have the Spacemen 3-cum-Silver Apples flavoured opener "Here To Go", which takes an aeon to rumble past, and the following instrumental "Revelation" which sounds almost the same to these ears, or on the other paw, you've the swaggering single "Take Me There" and the band's druggy take on the fuzzed-up "Baby Honey", originally recorded by The Pastels. I'll plump for the latter since the remainder of the album consists of the pastoral "Golden Dawn" and the Creation-by-numbers Zona Rose, a Jeffrey Lee Pierce number given a respectful re-reading.
There's a full on West Coast feel to the Beatles-esque "Tears At Sunrise" and a healthy slice of the Velvet Underground on the closing "Thru The Night", making Full Circle, well, a full circle of just about reference-point in psychedelia. And you know? It's an album that grows on you with repeated listens but I've got in the habit of starting at track two and going with the trippy flow.