Farflung/Black Rainbows – Split album – Vinyl LP

The Italian psych fuzz trio Black Rainbows sound like the bastard offspring of 70s hard rock swagger and 90s stoner groove, hints of Black Sabbath, MC5 and Hawkwind fuse with liberal pinches of Monster Magnet and Fu Manchu. Since 2007 the band have released three full length albums, coupled with split releases with bands such as White Hills, Naam and Farflung, and finally the recently highly acclaimed Holy Moon Ep. They have also been regulars on stages across the world having now performed over 300 gigs. If there were ever proof that stoner rock has become its own genre, it would be the fact that an album would have song titles like Endless Drifting Wreck and Silver Shrooms given the band, it would actually be more surprising if it didn t have song titles like that. Farflung have been at it often and long enough that by this point their jacked up space boogie still audibly in debt to the patron saints of the whole shebang, Hawkwind, but no less enjoyable for that reason gives exactly what anyone who favors the approach would want, great album graphics perfect for black T shirts, more echo slathered over the vocals than imaginable, and a feeling that everything and everyone involved in the creation of it are all collectively careening down a cosmic highway at light speed while screaming YEEEAARRRRRGHHHH out of the windows.