Carlton Melton / Mugstar - Company / Black Fountain

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A - Carlton Melton: Company
A - Mugstar: Black Fountain

5...according to our Mike on Fri 06 Jan, 2012.

Bit of an exciting one, this. Both of these bands are consistently strong performers on the modern psych landscape, as you're probably already aware if you're reading this, and on this split they both deliver quiet similarly paced repeato jams with tribal rhythms and not many notes, picking out deep psychedelic grooves. The Mugstar side's a bit krautier, the Carlton Melton side's a bit more freak-folk, but ultimately it's the same churning, rumbling psychedelia. I bet this sounds ace after a few bongs.

The last pair of Trensmat releases for 2011 see out our successful resurrection year with a big bang, split across 4 A-sides.

First up, California's 'dome-rock' sentinels Carlton Melton melt our minds and our faces with their good 'Company' - a four and a half minute mid-tempo distillation of their M.O. - all dripping guitars, piercing electronics, and exploding stoner grooves; blindly blissing-out amid a near-impenetrable fug of unchecked fuzz. The dome is cracking - get a helmet!

Our longtime fellow travellers, Liverpool's Mugstar, turn your liver into a pool with a booze-fuelled, desert rumble entitled 'Black Fountain'. After three minutes of tribal drumming and ominous twanging, the cymbals come in and it inevitably kicks off - a ferocious duelling guitar ruckus. It's brief and bloody; the dust storm settles and the last tumbleweed rolls past.

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