Rajan

"'Rajan' is a guitar lover's dream much in the way that albums by Unknown Mortal Orchestra or King Gizzard are. No showing off or pointless meandering, just super-cool sounds, interesting effects, and parts that fit perfectly into the weird and wonderfully intricate whole. 'Rajan' might not quite reach the top rank of modern psych albums - "Nightmare" hews a little too closely to blues clichés and the occasional bit of editing could have been done when the tracks started to drift too much - but Blackwell has made a strong and never less than interesting step in that direction. Even if he swings back to the more well-known Night Beats formula, this will stand as a fun experiment at the very least".

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"Rajan successfully bridges vintage influences into the best of modern psychedelia, resulting in the most precise and mature Night Beats album to date".

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"It wasn't until his fourth album, 'Myth Of A Man', that [Danny Lee Blackwell] started to embellish his hard, garage-rocking version of psychedelia with tinges of R&B and soul, aided by producer Dan Auerbach; and after all, Night Beats had been named after a Sam Cooke album ... 'Rajan' fully commits, in the direction of The Isleys and Prince's frazzling heat, Blackwell's melting guitar solos soaring skywards. Within this, Blackwell remains an inveterate magpie of all things psychedelic; "Hot Ghee" and "Osaka" respectively incorporate Turkish psych and Tropicália, "Motion Picture" adapts the '60s pop model (hints of Tommy James's "Crystal Blue Persuasion") and "Morocco Blues" even turns signature '50s rock'n'roll into another kaleidoscopic ride".