I'm
not sure what I expected the first full length release by this Aussie quartet
to sound like; but I'm sure it wasn't this. Kicking off with the slow soft seductive
psych-soul of 'My Sensation', which I'm sure Prince would be proud of; next
it's the outrageously beautiful cover of Julian Cope's 'Out of My Mind on Dope
and Speed', that will have you leaping off of the ceiling. 'Moving Too Fast' might have been Mercury Rev playing Stones riffs under a swimming pool until about halfway through when everything melts and warm angelic forms rise out of the ground like vapor. 'One Time At Sundown' raises hopes of a Tom Verlaine cover; but is instead a bass driven undulating original bit of instrumental majesty. 'The Big V' has operatic ethereal wordless guest vocals by Sophie Viskich, and a widescreen spaciousness ala Morricone, great drumming and intense climactic grandeur seldom rivaled outside of the best of Popol Vuh.
The rootsy country based 'Dirty' is like something recorded two cantinas down from the sessions for "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid", but with less gravity and a more soul musical vibe.
'The Sundowner' is almost 9 minutes of heavensent droning instrumental atmospherics slowly accumulating, with a vast panoramic view; from here to the end of time echoing in a loop through eternity. 'Charmed' is 8 and a half minutes of "found voices", seemingly random bits of talk, while high windwept instrumental machinations wheel and slowly turn in the sky. 'Moving Too Fast (The Director's Cut)' reprises the song in a less than two minute haiku spare and beguiling fashion, to conclude this remarkable work of modern psychedelic pop music."
– George Parsons
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