Custard Flux - Enter Xenon

 

Custard Flux are beloved here. The albums regularly bother the higher echelons of our End Of Year Album lists and each album adds something different to the Curvey Back Catalogue. We know how the followers here are also enchanted as Reviews are regularly most popular when posted. 

Enter Xenon is no different as Curvey's shifting of the dial continues. There are songs that you might expect, built on wondrous Riffs, surprising choruses that grip you and an early Gabriel-esque vocal. But Custard Flux are about evolving.

A band that initially started out using heritage instruments gradually morphed into an outstanding is it Prog? is it Psych Pop? electric affair. Now even wider steps are taken. The use of Monophonic and Duophonic synths changes the mood considerably.

There is far more of a soundscape feel when you move away from Opportunity Knocks. The keyboard element is incorporated into the norm on Winter and Tomorrowland, enhancing strengths. This is nevermore so on the magnificent Superposition.

There are also two instrumentals that underline how ace Curvey is at moving on with an uncanny knack of taking you along for the ride. Just when you have made your mind up that Custard Flux have done it yet again, stepped slightly away, you get the superb 12 minute closer.

The Floating Chamber is gobsmacking Psych that underlines the power of the Guitar in mesmerising fashion. It is jawdroppingly great and a perfect end to another Curvey masterclass. Thank goodness we have him or we would all be listening to the same thing time after time after time.

You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on Vinyl, CD or as a download.

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