This album of psych-friendly pop tunes sounds as if it might be the product of a group of loveable latter-day mop-tops, like the missing link between The Byrds and The Stone Roses.
Instead, it all turns out to be a DIY solo work; the debut project by the improbably named Londoner Chin Keeler, ex-drummer with Hackney Krautrocker's Quickspace and Walthamstow's Dark Captain.
It was self-recorded on an old mini-mac at Praxis - an ex-sewing factory in Stoke Newington, Hackney and non-profit studio space for local artists. Keeler's eccentric neighbours in this centre can be seen wildly freaking out with him on the single Nothing Changes.
Swinging 60s style guitar and organ licks have drawn fanciful comparisons with early Pink Floyd with Climb In Your Mind being a good example of his tripped out perspective. This songs starts off a bit like The Doobie Brothers but winds up advocating altered states by expressing the desire to enter the body and brain of a significant other.
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Despite some bright moments, taken as a whole the record quickly gets a bit monotonous and one-paced.
Go Down To The Hole gets stuck in a loop while tracks like Chill The Fuck Out and So Good To Be Here Again seem to exist in a pot-induced state of bliss but it all becomes a bit dull if you're not on a similar high.
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