White Manna are back with
their 6th release since 2012 and their first studio album since 2015
(Pan). The title tracks starts things with an uptempo psych rocker. As with all
the White Manna records, they have a special sound production. Drums are loud
and dry, the guitars mixed to the back a bit, space sounds quite low most of
the time but present, and a nice rolling bass line. Vocals on some tracks you
can understand and others they are mixed quite low and it is very hard to
understand what is sung. Then it is all about the psychedelic trip. Vimanas is
a slower more stoney but grooving track with a piano keyboard. Trampoline is a
space rocker with a great energy and some nice spacey synth sweeps. This is the
best track on side A. Wow.. Invisible Kings finishes the side off and starts
very abrupt and chaotic, twists your head around a bit, with a very psychedelic
vocal, like a dark nightmare. Trippy stuff. Flip the record over to kick things off with
Speed Dagger, which you might expect to be a super fast track is actually
pretty mid-paced and very 60s inspired but in a heavy way! English Breakfast
keeps it psychedelic with a sort of repeated start type of groove. You are the
Movie has a classic stoned White Manna sound like some of their earlier
stuff. Freak closes this latest
psychedelic trip in a high energy fashion.
The first 100 pre-orders also
came with a CD called Temporary Lines, which features tracks from various releases
and some live stuff. A few really cool
tracks including a cover version of Master of the Universe by Hawkwind! IT was
good to finally hear these tracks that the band released on a few split Lps
that I had never heard (Die Roboter and Glory Stompers).
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