Marvelous British Neo Psychedelia: Beaulieu Porch - Sarum Sounds (2016 Tillmanns Records)

The new full length ‘Sarum Sounds’ employs a more edgy and fractured tone and finds them in a somewhat schizoid melodic frame of mind as they tunnel their way deep into the fragmenting firmament of the psychedelic eye, the pastoral posies of the past replaced by a scuzzing kaleiodoscopia which admittedly still bears the trademark Ooberman styled lilts yet now revolves and orbits a twin mooned mosaic whose influence freewheels between the luck of eden hall (none more so than on the sci fi psyche out grooves of opener ‘giant supermen’) and the doleful lions.

 That said plenty of Std Barrett and Keith West motifs daub and colour this wildly wonderful psychedelic mirage the latter most notably on the breathlessly aching and cosmically cooled ‘goodbye sarum’ while the day-glo’d new wave freak out ‘Thursday sound revival’ hints of an untamed crooked crafting that wouldn’t look far out of place on ‘SF Sorrow’.

 All said on this brief first hearing our favourite moment by far ‘june’ is sumptuously trimmed in baroque corteges sighed in ghost like ethereal weaves of lulling chime motifs and genuflecting string arrangements (see Ooberman) which by the close fracture and frazzle into a searing haze of rabbit hole falling psychosis. (review excerpt by Mark Barton, marklosingtoday.wordpress.com)

quote by Simon Berry: ''...writer Mark Barton pens deeply poetic and picturesque words...''

With 'Sarum Sounds' Simon Berry aka Beaulieu Porch has recorded a rather unusual album. One might think. Where have the ethereal floating sound collages gone? Everything is still there, but Sarum Sounds is probably the ''rockiest'' sound structure that Berry gives us to hear from his sound cosmos. And it's great. There's nothing more to say. Only...why isn't Berry already a star in the psychedelic sky tent? Does the expression 'sky tent' even exist in the English language? lol :-)  Enjoy. (Frank)

p.s. If you are interested in a good site for psychedelic music reviews and infos try Mark Barton's site:  marklosingtoday.wordpress.com

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