Gary War - New Raytheonport

Psychedelic music may have hit its commercial peak around the time of Sgt Pepper's, but that hasn’t stopped a succession of space cadets from setting off on mind-altering journeys since. On this fantastically spooky offering, Brooklyn’s Gary War takes his cues from psychotic former Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape singer Skip Spence’s fractured masterpiece Oar to produce something disquieting yet beautiful. With Clouds Went That Way War starts as he means to go on – the prettiness of the melody undermined by his treated multi-tracked vocals and a washed-out instrumental backdrop that sounds as though it is on the verge of dropping into a black hole. The album carries on in much the same swooshing Spacemen Three meets Suicide vein throughout before ending on a two note keyboard instrumental entitled Hope for the Future. If it sounds anything like this, it will be a pretty interesting trip.