PSYCHEDELIC PROG

Take a trip with Rob Hughes as he seeks out the latest mind-expanding music.

US experimentalist Kip Uhlhorn has been Cloudland Canyon’s pilot for over 20 years now, navigating psychedelia, alt-rock, ambient drone and more besides. Cloudland Canyon (Medical) finds the sometime Wayne Coyne and Sonic Boom collaborator take AI as his primary inspiration, creating electro-based pieces that pulse and fizz in all the right places. Giorgio Moroder haunts the post-techno Internet Dreams, there are echoes of John Carpenter in LV MCHNS and the skittery Future Perfect (Bad Decision) owes a great deal to Neu! and Harmonia. On a similar tack, LA-based Hooveriii (pronounced ‘Hoover 3’) have largely dispensed with their usual guitar-rock and broken out the synths for fourth album Pointe (The Reverberation Appreciation Society/Levitation). Taking cues from obscure 60s psych pop and Tangerine Dream, Bert Hoover’s band cook up driving grooves, blissful…

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