Review: The Movements - Let It All Out 10"

Those who heard The Movements' exceptional 'Like Elephants 1 & 2' (reviewed on this very blog here)will be familiar with their take on garage / psychedelic rock. The new 10" on Beluga Records in Sweden is more of the same....and then some!

The title track initially starts as a mid-tempo garage rocker but veers into fuzzy Velvet Underground territory. 'Värmeslag' is a semi-acoustic slowie, sung in the band's native Swedish (so unfortunately, I'm somewhat ashamed to say, I have no idea what it's about, or indeed what Värmeslag means...any Swedish readers please feel free to educate me!).

It's on the B-side that things get really interesting - 'Inside Of Your Mind' is another stomping garage number, with added female vocals and it fair jogs along with some fine sounding organ work. 'Black Valley' is a high octane surf guitar workout, but, at just a minute long, blink and you'll miss it! The highlight, and indeed the reason I bought this disc, is a fantastic version of Syd Barrett's 'Vegetable Man'. There have been some cracking versions of this track, notably by The Jesus And Mary Chain, and this one is up there with the best. It captures the spirit of early Floyd and mixes in some skronky sax, some Doorsian organ and the vocals are suitably unhinged at times and it builds and builds until it reaches an almighty sixties psychedelic wigout. It's pretty damned awesome!



It is available from Beluga Records. And I must add a special thanks to @mr_atavist and the fantastic Sunrise Ocean Bender podcast (which can be found here on Mixcloud and on itunes)for turning me on to this record.