Pressed on Recycled 180g Vinyl LP and Packaged in a Brown Paper Bag in Place of Shrink Wrap

Four clicks and we're off - galloping through realms on a phase-shifted, hydra-headed, many armed and muscular monster. This Australian beast of a band with a bear of a name and a thick herd of band members delivers many things to us on this warped 2014 song cycle - a skeleton of propulsive kraut-beat fleshed out with a liberal dose of citric sweetness, flutes and harmonicas bleeding through the mix often and welcomingly, tons of wah and a hero's journey/heavy metal early 80's fantasy sort of vibe, and many lovely left turns into psychedelic mellowing, both groovily and sometimes with just a dash of DMT dread. The whole thing is just gooey with tape manipulations, phase shifts, and saturations, but there are clearly many tasty tidbits that bubble to the top, and they're sticky.

"We recorded this album while on tour of the states - I think we had a day or two off in New York and we were lucky enough to book a day recording at Daptone Records. Most of us had been obsessively listening to their artists and records for a while and we were so excited to get in there and discover how they made their records sound how they do. We met Wayne for the first time - he engineered the record and is an absolute legend. He started as their tape op and worked his way up. It was cramped fitting all 7 of us in there - but there's been much bigger bands record in there and they managed.

"I loved that non-perfectionism ethos that Daptone/Wayne had - it was a perfect match from the start. We were all really getting into classic Kraut Rock at the time and loved those repetitive, motorik beats - they open the album and really set the tone for me. We were also starting to experiment with blending tracks together in our live set and it started to seep onto this record. I actually think the original idea was to have one beat for the whole album and the songs fade in and out over the top of it. I guess we kind of lost course of that but tried to pull it off again (kind of) with Nonagon." - Lucas Skinner