Various: The Gesu-ƨ Plateau (Enslavement of the Species) LP

Fresh dose of mind-altering obscurities out of the Light Sounds Dark cabinet, sending down the wormhole with 80 minutes of mesmerising ambient, drone, astral-planing arps and skull-clank percussion. Longtime psychonauts and fresh faced recruits are both in for a treat with the opening instalment of LSD’s 2025 mental training program. The incognito pickers are on their A game here with eight picks harvested from the nether regions of their presumably heaving shelves or ginnels of YouTube - we’re still not sure, and that’s always a big part of the mysterious allure to these sessions. At some 45 releases up to the hilt in the arcane annals, by now many will take it on trust that any LSD volume is a buy-on-sight affair. But if ye need any more persuasion we can assure you their special powers feel properly heightened on this feature length episode. An initial entry portal of gauzy keyboard gives way to a tract of slowed down drone jazz spiritualism like Bohren on quaaludes, culminating in asteroid-dodging kosmiche arps in dub, whilst side B swallows heads whole in its keening 22 minutes of clandestine synth drone, and side C follows thru with an extended soundscape riddled by eeriest aether voices and metallic drums that roll upside the head. The final 3-part passage of side D from bitter noise to supernatural vocal manipulations and Burroughsian gunk is worthy of a chef’s kiss to spangled minds. Track list presumably to follow in cyberspace.