The #zot2016 review returns after a one or two-day absence that surely kept you all on your toes.

Dreamtime - Strange Pleasures (Sky Lantern Records/Cardinal Fuzz).

From Brisbane, Australia, here come the Dreamtime (Zac Anderson, Cat Maddin, Tara Wardrop, Fergus Smith), a psychedelic band dedicated to settings that hover between psychedelia and fairy-tale imagery. The album 'Strange Pleasures', recorded by Darek Mudge at Shed Recording Studio and by George Bennett at Unicorn Planet, effectively brings back this dreamy and fantastic imagery that is historically typical of certain progressive music from the seventies and its derivatives. The attempt is therefore to combine this tradition with cosmic music and space ambient, with results that are alternately successful and likely to appeal only to those accustomed to complex sonic constructions. An album with very acidic sounds and a certain taste for Middle Eastern tones reminiscent of the atmospheres from the oriental tales of 'One Thousand and One Nights', which certainly makes the sound of Dreamtime something quite unique, but for my tastes, it turns out to be challenging and overly structured. Each song seems almost never-ending, and reaching the end feels like an almost heroic feat typical of the protagonists of those dreamy suites narrated by the beautiful Sherazade. 2/5

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