Kumoyo Island

"On their final album, the Japanese psych rockers push beyond the horizons of their previous records. The songs are compact in comparison to their side-long odysseys, but they continually keep you guessing".

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"... after ten years together, the Japanese psych quintet are now disbanding, with Kumoyo Island their fifth album and swansong.And broadly, what a way to go out: Kumoyo Island is insistent, escapist, dreamlike and ultimately a whole load of fun, full of blazing, overdriven, heads-down grooves ... Kumoyo Island works as an exemplary career full stop".

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"It's too easy, these days, to situate yourself squarely in a pre-existing tradition and by slavishly following its rules attempt to claim a bogus authenticity. Kikagaku Moyo are having none of that - not least because doing what you want, and grabbing a little bit of everything like famished pilgrims at a hotel buffet, is much more fun. Having just made their best album, it's a shame that their journey ends here, although you suspect that they'll return in new permutations before too long. For now though, you have to say: mission accomplished".

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