SILVERSOUND - s/t 2LP

Highly recommended.

The debut album from this new Melbourne supergroup featuring Shane O’Mara, Andrew Tanner, Stu Thomas and Leroy Cope. Between them, they have been involved with the icons of the Australian music scene; from Paul Kelly to Sand Pebbles, Kim Salmon to Dave Graney, Tim Rogers to Lisa Miller, toured the world and recorded a plethora of albums over the last three decades.

Together with The Silversound, they have raised the ghosts of psychedelic boogie with fuzzed guitars and a kosmische sheen, broaching the worlds of shoegaze, dream-pop and tres-moderne psychedelia, conjuring the sonics of Slowdive, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Sand Pebbles(!) and all points between.

A real surprise, this one, and a mighty good one at that.