GLYDERS - Maria's Hunt LP

Highly recommended.

Glyders’ first proper LP is a rare psychedelic gem. It outdoes whatever came prior in the Glyders-verse and it is plain to see from the very beginning.

‘High Time’ kicks things off in grand style: a tense, simple guitar circling round and round while fried circuits squeak and bleep front and centre. The sound is both elated and sparse. It is hard kraut-americana, a bizarre concoction bound together with alchemical ease.

Neu! and Steppenwolf and MC5 and some Dead Moon, conjuring the electrical sounds of shadowland roadhouses. The soundtrack for mutant creatures running down post-industrial desert highways in the dead of an August night.

Maria’s Hunt’s stylistic baseline is the same as it ever was with Glyders: minimal, yet maximal. The album does not break Glyders’ vow of sonic chastity. Almost-nothing is way, way more. The record is proudly analogue and DIY. There are some flourishes here and there on top of the classic guitar-bass-and-drums, but never to the point of not sounding like something recorded in a tool-shed in the middle of nowhere.

Structurally speaking, all of the songs are simple and hypnotic and repetitive. Genre-wise, the record is neatly divided in two: psych-rock barn burners and desolate acid-country ballads.