A big widescreen psych sound is what 'Compulsion Songs' by the Lucid Dream is when it lands on your turntable. Psych driven but, other influences soak into the framework of the songs over the 44 minutes of this, the band’s third album.

The band themselves hail from Carlisle, where vistas of raw Cumbrian countryside surround the city so it's no wonder, The Lucid Dream have come up with such vast musical landscapes themselves.

‘Bad Texan’ with all its raw psych majesty opens the album, followed by a spacey ‘Stormy Waters’. The album itself was recorded at Whitewood Studios, in Liverpool, with Rob Whiteley, and the album was produced alongside longtime collaborator Ross Halden (Ghost Town Studios, Leeds). The more you listen to the record, you find yourself lost in the musical territory of everyone from 13th Floor Elevators to Spiritualized.

Third song, 'I’m a Star in my own right’ carries a reggae and 2-tone vibe encompassed in a psych bubble. 'The Emptiest Place' (which would fit in a Tarantino soundtrack) and '21st Century' are two short/sharp psych mindbenders which, back in the sixties may have been chart singles. 

This fine record rounds out with two epic tracks ‘Nadir’ and ‘Epitaph’. The former Floydish and the latter in the land of Wooden Shijps and Moon Duo.

If you are interested in the future of British psych, then check out Compulsion Songs which is released on 23rd September via Holy Are You Recordings

Pete

10/11

Tour Dates

Thursday 22nd September: London The Lexington
Saturday 24th September: Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia
Friday 30th September: Cardiff The Moon Club
Saturday 1st October: Manchester Night and Day
Friday 28th October: Newcastle The Cluny 2
Saturday 29th October: Nottingham The Lofthouse
Saturday 12th November: Hebden Bridge Trades Club

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