One step behind

"One Step Behind sees Garcia Peoples continuing their rapid, curious evolution. That the band can take such a huge leap from their previous material in such a short period of time points to an even more radical exploration of what's to come".

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"A band doesn't always exceed by expanding. No musician's guide would suggest that, cruising early in its career, a band should bring in a parent and write a half-hour odyssey. Then follow it up with a new vocalist losing himself in hurt. Garcia Peoples has never had much interest in being normal, and One Step Behind benefits greatly from that distinctiveness".

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"New Jersey rockers' fresh-minted productivity sends them outwards and upwards ... 'Cosmic Cash' and 'Natural Facts' [were] respectively chilled and feisty versions of their twin-guitar choogle, crossing West Coast acid rock with Southern boogie. 'One Step Beyond' shifts the goalposts, comprising a 32-minute title track and the eight-minute 'Heart And Soul', an elegant comedown in the mould of [The Band's] 'Music From Big Pink'. Beforehand, the main event ebbs and flows through myriad scenes, hovering between a jam and a plan. An opening stretch of floating saxophone and locked-groove guitars surrenders to space-rock drama, then a breezy song/melody that segues into a simmering jam, bridged by mushrooming guitars to a sax-tooting coda that blows off whatever steam is left in the engine".