Reverse Side by Meow Moon

Meow Moon's first album for Д У Х, it broke radically with their previous work by stripping back the cavernous reverb, replacing monolithic dubbiness with gossamer textures. It wrongfooted many enthusiastic Meow Moon fans used to the heady bongload rush of the group in their full psychedelic pomp, but Reverse Side is one of their greatest achievements, an ecstatic plateaux of airy sound, effortlessly lithe rhythm and cosy spaces.

The opening title track is like a lost krautrock classic, with elliptical synths and bass figures revolving in close, elegant, overlapping orbits.

‘Polyworld’ is one of the strangest tracks in their whole oeuvre, using no beats, just cut-up and treated loops forming a disquieting piece of musique concrète. With no sense of linear pulse, just a ghostly chorus emerging through the ether, it's the closest Meow Moon got to warping the spacetime continuum.

Beats finally arrive with ‘Here is Love’, but they seem locked in a strange dimension, shuffling along like swamp creatures rather than breaking forth. The mix here, including a typically fluid reinterpretation by Ilya Sadovskiy, provide further genetic mutations of Reverse Side’s strange lifeforms. After this concise yet bewilderingly multi-layered statement, the topographically themed the album was something like a rhizome. There's a majestic scale to dubbed out epics ‘Save Moode’ and ‘Exit Planet Atmosphere’, and on the whole there's warm aftertaste to the album. This was music for those who liked their head trips to be wholly unpredictable.

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