Review: Spurious Transients - Planet Cantaloupe EP

Wanted to get this review out before next weekend, for the main reason that Spurious Transients are opening next weekend's "The 13th Dream Of Doctor Sardonicus: A Festival Of Psychedelia" in Cardigan, Wales. On hearing this EP I have no qualms about urging all you lucky buggers who are attending the festival to get there early to catch this group.

'Planet Cantaloupe' is a delightful melange of jazzy psychedelia with some insistent kosmische rhythms that manages to sound smooth and sultry and yet quirky and unique; the sax adds a real jazz-club smokeyness to the track, but the synths and the ace guitar work give it a hazy psychedelic feel. 'Gitarau Cosmig' has an altogether more spacey feel to it with some wonderful synth washes giving it a cosmic vibe and more than a touch of Tangerine Dream era krautrock. The reprise of 'Planet Cantaloupe' is just that, but with extra electronic squiggles and wooshes and even more psychedelic quitar pushing the tempo up, but blink and you'll miss it. This is a groovy (and I'm picking my words deliberately) EP which acts as a showcase for a band of true musicians not afraid to channel their imagination and creativity.

As mentioned Spurious Transients are opening the festival and so get there early as I have the feeling that, amongst all the big names on the bill, this lot will be the surprise package. 'Planet Cantaloupe' is available as a 7" (on transparent yellow) or digital download from their bandcamp page here and also from the festival itself