Welcome to absolute splendidness. My love of Psych Pop is well known, for all my listening avenues, it is this genre that I always feel most at home with. Mill On The Hill is drenched in it, but it also follows roads into Country, Americana, Surf and good old Pop Rock.
Welsh six piece Melin Melyn have conjured up an incredibly melodic affair, mellow vocally, but instrumentally wont to change direction at will song by song, but more likely in the song itself. Mellowness turns into catchy pop at a stroke.
There is also a real lyrical adeptness with a wit and purpose. It is the instrumental arrangements that grab you most, particularly the frequent slide guitar which enhances the great Pop on show. This is a very laid back comfy chair listen, but the album also makes you stand to attention at times.
Dail is sung in Welsh and that language seems an ideal fit to the variation across the album. The Pigeon & The Golden Egg is part Rock and Roll, part Surf Rock, but is incredibly jaunty Piano Pop at the same time.Running MT is Country Folk,
Vitamin D is wonderful Toytown, Fantastic Food is 60s soundtrack, instrumentally French Pop and Promised Land is awesome Americana. But it is the song, Mill On The Hill that dominates the album with its cracking Psych Pop. It is here as an Intro, Reprise and Close.
The Intro is like an album in itself across 4 minutes, there is so much in it. An incredible story of the village across multi genres, it is magnificent. This album will delight Psych pop fans, but there is loads here to interest Pop Rock, Intelligent Indie and any music fan.
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You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on CD and as a download. The Vinyl is sadly sold out, but hopefully there will be more soon.
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