Who wants to drone? New Zealand's Orchestra of Spheres know how to put on a good drone when they want to. The opening title track taps into the drones forged on Velvet Underground's Black Angel Death Song and never lets go introducing some seriously zonked out vocals and a wild violin solo.

The band are almost the perfect thing to satisfy those who maybe think Goat have gone to soft or Acid Mothers Temple are too much like hard work. Their intense repeatathons are often bonkers and they zonk wildly between rhythms and tempos taking in new wave, world music and psych rock along the way. 

So if 'Ata' is a series of oddball chants lurching into something that sounds like the B52s if they'd only heard 'Remain in Light' then 'Chimes' is almost exactly the other way round  - beginning with African guitar stylings it introduces wordless humming and chanting. 

Orchestra of Spheres sort of taps into that everything goes approach we expect from our psych rock these days. It's shamanistic, musically versatile and more importantly for people like me quite approachable. Goat with bells on basically. Norman Records.

2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition

Tracklist:
A1        Mirror
A2        Ata
B1        Chimes
B2        Sandpiper
B3        Summer Fungus
C1        Black & White
C2        Omni
C3        Omni Omni
D1        Kovdede
D2        Foggy Day