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Rating: It all started with the Velvet Underground, and passing through the various Suicide and Spacemen 3, the Moon Duo are currently among the noteworthy endpoints of this psychedelia with reduced sonic density. After all, it's all a matter of pressure and time, and the metropolitan angst of their psych-fathers has transformed into this music that is lunar not only in its attire.
Circles is an album of tracks that might seem like masses without a center of gravity: a multilayer of fine sonic fabrics settle in the mind in a spiral manner, and any possible hypnosis would aptly counterbalance the album's monolithic nature.
One encounters a composition made of fuzz that mounts selenic grooves with space rock formalism, of spaced-out garage references often softened by pop breezes, assembling everything into compositions that lend themselves well to taking on mantric forms. Ripley Johnson can't even here avoid some Doors-like reminiscences, now drowned in a minimalism sometimes comparable to drone music. The musical movements of these acid soundtracks seem to reason in abstractions, and the music could go on for years, in agreement with the circle philosophy with which our guys have woven their minds before recording the album. Sprinkled with cyclic, dilated sounds aimed at a mental twist, by the end of the listening, the external reality might seem for a while as neutral as water after lemon, but I think that would be just the intended result.
Proceeding practically parallel to the Wooden Shjips brothers, I believe the duo in question has been able to offer an excellent compromise between the various shades of psychedelia without resulting in a mere offshoot of the first band formed by R. Johnson.
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