Artist: Red Cosmos
Albums:
There and Back
Release
date: 2012
Quality: mp3
CBR 320
Size: 157 MB
“Released a month or so ago, this is an album that is overflowing with ideas
and originality mixing as it does folk with pastoral psychedelia, sound
samples, ambient electronics, and hazy, woozy vocals. Throughout, the record is
underpinned with a nonchalant humour and sly insouciance including one song
inspired by holier-than-thou TV presenter Philip Schofield’s inherent
insincerity (Do Geese See God?).
Songs
switch from tripped out to tripped up to just plain trippy, creating the kind
of feel that you get with a Tim Burton inspired nightmarish nursery rhyme. Take
England’s Glory, the tale of a mother visited in the middle of the night by the
pale spectre of her son dying alone, somewhere far away on a battlefield.
Elsewhere, it calls to mind such psychedelic greats as Syd Barrett as well as
more contemporary MM faves such as Damon Moon, Mathew Sawyer and Benjamin Shaw.
The album
has the kind of wilful, single-mindedness and surreal vision that so many
strive for and yet fail to achieve, and which is so essential in creating a
unique voice. By the end of the record, we are left with the suspicion Red
Cosmos might be the kind of band to drown fish just for the perverse pleasure
of seeing if they can.”
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