Cover art for &; Hope Still by Silent Land Time Machine Description: 180 gram ltd wax on Time Lag edn of 300
Format: LP (vinyl)
Genre(s): Psychedelia / Space Rock
Label: Time Lag
Price:
£20.99
Availability: Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4Rating: 4
...according to our on 21 November 2008.

It's good to know Time Lag are still going. It's a dependable label and if you're into psychdelic folk music then you should check out the labels back cat. Some choice nuggets there. Just in from the label is a brand new LP/CD by Silent Land Time Machine called & Hope Still. It sounds pretty lush on first listen. Lots of different instruments on here.... violin, acoustic guitar, percussion, accordian, and some found samples all chucked together into a large earthenware pot of psyche folk fun. It's largely instrumental except the odd haunting vocal here and there and it's all a bit nice. It's a wierd blend of americana, neo classical instrumentation and psyche folk and gels nicely. The multi instrumental fun here reminds a bit of Sufjan Stevens at times (without the vocals and whimsy and a bit of A Silver Mt Zion. Ltd to 300 copies on 180 gram wax and on CD as well.

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here's something a bit different… a collaborative release with the band's own indian queen label. pretty hard to pin this one down, but its a trip for sure. a rather mysterious one man band solo outing from texas, who builds up layer upon layer of violin, viola, acoustic guitar, slippery electric slide, percussion, electronics, accordion, buried vocals, and found sounds into haunted, rollicking, thick sonic blankets of sound. many simple parts entwined, looped, and orchestrated into an undulating whole, like naive bedroom folkrock filtered through some blissed out minimalist phase experiment. ecstatic, post-psychedelic chamber rock maybe? really doesn't sound like much else out there, but its instantly enjoyable, energized, and grooves freely in its own uplifting way. packaged in ghostly and subtly beautiful offset printed foldout cover, with foldout insert. 180gm vinyl. limited, numbered edition of 300 copies.