The Laughing Windows - Opel Hair

Born through a mutual love of English psychedelia, Krautrock & Italian horror films, The Laughing Windows share a creative vision of musical alchemy that is as compelling as it is kaleidoscopic.   The Laughing Windows are a London based collective headed by Luke Insect. Inhabiting the same unpredictable terrain as The Aliens and Super Furry Animals, Luke Insect has subtly drawn from a host of eclectic voices to shape his own highly distinctive sound. Like the best psyche-folk, it is music that exudes a sense of bizarre possibility; a world in which Ken Loach meets Damo Suzuki, where The Beta Band collide with Dario Argento. The results are irresistibly fascinating.The Laughing Windows create music that registers strongly on a psychological level - they are reaching for images of a lost England, be it in glimpses from the strange and elliptical folk-past or documents of 60s working-class London. This brings an intriguing and rare power to the music. The effect is to produce imagery that seems at once disarmingly familiar and supernaturally strange.The 7” is available in a choice of two exquisitely designed, equally limited edition covers.

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