Mandrake Handshake – Earth-Sized Worlds (CD)

Description

The debut album from the London/Oxford self-dubbed ‘Flowerkraut’ collective Mandrake Handshake – is an awfully simple one: ‘Welcome to Space Beach’. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi-limbed organism – varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members – it’s an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against the warm nostalgias of home. Full of surprise, leftfield turns and closeted experimentations, tape-soaked Brazilian Sambas morphs into Kosmische Kraturock crusades, and shimmering avant-pop electronics melt into sweetened psychedelic bliss… “Welcome to the Spacebeach – the new era of the Mandrake. Here, where the sea joins the sky, and where the trees touch the stars and where we will have you stay a while”.

Track List

1. Time Goes Up
2. Hypersonic Super-Astroid
3. Charlie’s Comet
4. The Change and the Changing
5. Lorenzo’s Desk
6. King Cnut
7. Barranmode
8. Find the Tree and Dig (Deep)!
9. Earth-Sized Worlds

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