GUM / AMBROSE KENNY-SMITH - Ill Times LP

It has all the hallmarks of the modern neo-psychedelia sound, but none of its melancholic sensibilities. It's sunny, funky, filled with great hooks, and only then the trippy production that enhances the songs that would pop regardless.

Perfect music for summer and any kind of physical activity, and honestly has more in common with Prince and Parliament than any of its neo-psych contemporaries. Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava was one of the most fun albums KGLW have put out, and we now see that there must have been quite a lot of Ambrose's influence in it.