Posts Tagged ‘Dissolver’

Having left the confines of their former abode – a spooky former halfway house for drug addicts – for Geoff Barrow’s Invada studio, the indie quartet have a new album that rings with a cleaner, lighter finesse; its tracks built around the warm, glowing melodies of the Kinks and the Lilys. Robert Hampson of Loop produced the majority of the record, while the Bad Seeds’ Warren Ellis caught wind of the group and loved them so much he ended up playing on two tracks, Dissolver and Heavy Expectations. Listen to their shuffling, sorrowful next single, Blonde Blending,

Younghusband

There’s a preconception about psychedelic music that it has be made while imbibing rare hallucinogens, skinny-dipping in the dark, subaqueous regions of the soul.

Younghusband, though, tend to make do with a strong cup of Earl Grey. The band’s new album ‘Dissolver’ marks them out as one of the pre-eminent groups in the psychedelic underground, a bunch of musicians whose visceral live show is matched to genuinely absorbing songwriting.

Out on October 30th via ATP Recordings, ‘Dissolver’ was constructed via painstaking recording sessions. Thankfully, Younghusband shot some footage during the studio process ,It’s a revealing if humble document, one that displays both the magic and mundane side of life in the studio.