The mostly instrumental Portuguese trio from Porto are back with their long delayed 3rd album and it is a corker! It starts off with Death my Astonishment, a track they have been playing live for quite some time. A great guitar sound and plenty of guitar solos and great riffs on this one. Widowmaker kicks the energy level up even higher with a wah wammy solo and then into vocal section, which is sort of shouted horse vocal, remind me of XX from Orange Sunshine. Nice melodies mixed in the heavy rock and solos. Velvet Nebula has a slower but intense rhythm with some great guitar, including some double tracked stuff here and there. Lots of wah for fans of wah guitar. Endless Cycles starts slowly and reminds me of their earlier records a bit more. A nice bluesy guitar gets things going with a nice delay effect. A cool and different song but one of the best. Burnt kicks the energy up again with more wah and wammy guitar. Hazy Morning continues with the intense wah guitar attack (try some different pedals, Sam!) and the vocal returns and is set quite far in the back and hard to understand) but it is mostly just a rocking track!! Sauerkraut is a shorter 3.5 min track to end the record. Awesome artwork on the cover..
Overall, this is a very solid 3rd record and some might say the bands best. the drumming is perhaps more intense and the songs sorter and more focused (not sure I like that or not) but the whole band plays awesome with killer guitar throughout and groovy bass lines. One of the best PT bands on the stoner 70s rock scene at the moment..
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