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Please Turn Me Into The Snat
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connan mockasin - Please Turn Me Into The Snat
Released on Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound label, this fourth album from Connan Mockasin is finally getting the London-dwelling musician some attention after a good five years or so in the wilderness. Please Turn Me Into The Snat is a dreamlike psychedelic opus that's quite unlike anything else out there that gets branded with the 'psych' tag. Don't expect any protracted krautrocking jams here though, there's something about Mockasin's music that's refreshingly concise and clearly laid out. The production arrives coated in a suitably hazy, Guthrie-esque dream-pop gauze, but beneath that there's always something ear-catchingly weird going on somewhere in the mix. On 'Megumi The Milkyway Above' there's an instrumental break around halfway through that sounds like it consists of someone roughing up a baboon. Marginally less distressing is 'It's Choade My Dear', which fleetingly sounds like a deranged falsetto take on Serge Gainsbourg's 'Melody' from the Histoire De Melody Nelson LP. These are the opening two songs, and they do more than enough to suck you in for the full duration of the album, leading you down such artfully penned freak-pop avenues as 'Faking Jazz Together' and the galloping 'Egon Hosford'. At the nucleus of the album is the ten-minute hypno-funk masterpiece 'Forever Dolphin Love', which soon starts to feel like a bit of a modern psychedelic classic, shifting shape through various fragrantly surreal guises before ultimately settling into a kind of aquatic minor-key groove. Ace.
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