“Bright and gleaming at times, warm and meditative at others, Sparse Illumination effectively creates a seamless, lysergic journey filled [that] . . . nails the shimmering, chiming guitar sounds of the 80s Liverpool and Manchester scenes .. with irresistible grooves soothing, ethereal vocals recalling Ian McCulloch at his finest.”
As a full body of work, Echoes & Dust states that “this is above all an album dripping in psych; and while it never reaches the heights of space rock, it delivers an abundance of mesmeric moments that touch the stratosphere. Sparse Illumination it may be, but this soundscape has more than enough candlepower to light up our permanent pandemic twilight.”
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