COTTONWOODHILL

Taking the idea of the psychedelic freakout album to its logical extreme, the debut album by Brainticket distinguishes itself from the competition through its sheer uncompromising devotion to being as bizarre as possible. To the reverbed vocals on opener Black Sand to the trancelike rhythms and orgasmic muttering of the epic title track, the band takes all the most extreme ideas from the psychedelic and krautrock scenes as they existed at the time, mashed them together, cranked all the dials to 11 and played like crazy. The result is an album which you probably won't want to return to very often, but which will certainly stay with you and is well worth a listen for anyone interested in the freaky end of psychedelia.