Stanley Duke & the Kindred Spirits - Isolation
Release Date: Out Now
Cornwall's resident peddlers of psychedelic indie are back as Stanley Duke leads his Kindred Spirits towards the freedom at the end of a global pandemic via the Isolation Tarot EP. Why don't you hop on the space bus with me and lets freak out the squares, yeah?
Opening up with 'The Hanged Man' (a song title that I think works best said in Shakespearean English), Duke & Co take us hurtling through Cornish lanes in the back of a multicoloured Tuk Tuk as the beat keeps a fast pace and the melodies fly in from all angles like Marc Bolan's spirit jamming with Supergrass. The retro-but-fresh feel continues on the spooky 'Temperance' which has the kind of squelchy bass line you'd find in an 80s kids TV them but mixed with woozy guitars and subdued vocals that make you want to just float away on a cloud of your own making.
On 'King of Pentacles' the full force of this psyche-rock machine is let fly with a hypnotically fuzzed up guitar riff and garage rock drums to die for. 'The Lovers', by contrast, is a vast and sprawling tune that luxuriates over some velveteen electronic melodies as if John Lennon had been hiding in a remote shack with nothing for company but the shipping container of late 70s instruments that washed up on the beach all those years ago.
The EP finishes, somewhat fittingly, with 'Death' - a Zappa inspired meander that takes in jazz, rock, prog, psychedelia, indie and so much more before sinking slowly in to the dark water, never to be seen again. This is timeless music and great song writing for sure but, more importantly, this is creativity unbound with a real free spiritedness about it that is not only infectious but also very bloody moreish.
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