For Yuri Gagarin

For Yuri Gagarin. It wabbert, roars and fuzzt in this project of the Californian guitarist Erik Johnson, who explored psychedelic rock worlds with his main band Wooden Shjps. But Moon Duo get a lot of intoxicated and spacey rock music in the sense therefore.

Together with singer and Sanae Yamada debuted Keyborderin the Moon Duo already with two interesting EPs, now followed by a little song-oriented, highly Successful psychedelic rock album debut. Although San Francisco is the home port for Johnson, Yamada and their drum machines, the vast infinite eternal and the same worlds of the universe are their homes. When the beat has established itself and the chords have come to develop changes to on gimmicks not much, not to say anything. And in spite of this monotony Mazes remains exciting until the very end, steals one to hear a 44-minute song feel at the first runs and open up gradually differente realms of worn monotony within this psychedelic cosmos of equality.

Elongated guitar passages and a subtly employed, trimmed on dirty and old drum computing with spice like used bass or keyboard runs determine the entire album by hard remove individual. Mazes definitely works as a closed work best. Nevertheless, the almost melodic When You Cut, the journey rocket launching Seer, which is losing in guitar solos Worlds Fallout, the rhythm and keyboard-heavy Scars and driving song oriented Closer Goners highlighting mention character.

One does not need a lot of identification criteria of the debut of Moon Duo: relaxed, stoic and monotonous it goes his way on a journey in which one penetrates into fuzzzende, swirling, droning and intoxicated worlds that represent the exciting thing about this enterprise. And for that genre perhaps the thickest praise not only drugged a treat.

MQ