The Amazing - Picture YouWith members stemming from psych rock bands Dungen and Granada, Swedish band The Amazing inhabit an aural landscape thats all its own: a panoramic, constantly evolving spectacle marked by layers of intertwining guitars, richly textured keyboards, a rhythm section adept at skewed tempos and a tendency to veer off in unexpected directions. It would take a shelf full of thesauruses to describe the Swedish quintets music but their collection of songs on

Vinyl is heavyweight 180gram

a sort of highland Nancy 'n' Lee

prior to Black Box Recorder

The album sounds like a mashup between the Beatles 'Sgt Pepper' and Caribou's 'Andorra'

playful rhodes licks

The fact that the Hi Sheriffs were devolved from the Girls -- the BEST band Boston ever birthed

It was very violent and seemed to come straight out of the heart

his original label home with The Beach Boys

Harry Nilsson or Prince releasing a classic every year (or less) comes Mac DeMarco's 'Another One'

The music parallels the sombre tone of the lyrics - focused and direct - and avoids the usual bombastic funk of many Fela compositions

p as Slows for Deep Distance (Feb 2015)

LP format is pressed on gold vinyl and packaged in a gatefold sleeve with digital download