Brian Jonestown Massacre
Don’t Get Lost
Expansive dub-leaning brilliance on prolific collective’s sixteenth album. It’s been a mere four months since Brian Jonestown Massacre released their last album, but there’s little sign of creative fatigue here. Anton Newcombe may be uniquely brilliant and creative or frustratingly undisciplined – but his output is only improving with age. The drone-jam of first track Open Minds Now Close is exactly how you always hoped BJM might sound: hypnotic, transcendent, insistent. Guest vocalists abound, including Tim Burgess on the Morriconegoes-dub of Fact 67 while Melody’s Actual Echo Chamber burrows even deeper into spaced-out minimalist bass-and-drum territory. Where once Newcombe seemed entirely devoted to psychedelia, Don’t Get Lost offers a much broader scope, drawing on post-punk, the best of shoegaze and, on closer, Ich Bin Klang, late-Can kosmische. It’s something of a revelation. Clinging to his flapping smock-tails, a younger generation of psychonauts are taking notes. Ben Myers