Floral Picture: Gone Down Meadowland
LP | CD | DL
Out twenty fifth April 2025
Norwich psych retailers Floral Picture journey between lush East-coast sounds of the sixties and extra pressing rushes on their debut album for Fuzz Membership Information.
Nearly three years in the past we picked up on a band who gave the impression of they’d “inhaled a large bong, took a number of notes from the early Roses again catalogue and whipped it up with a little bit of Tame Impala, added a sprinkle of acid psych and had a phrase with the sunshine, for a laid again slab of indulgent hazy prog to supply a track for the summer time.” Having honed their sound within the intervening years, Floral Picture are actually able to launch their full debut, an album that focuses in additional on the luxurious and layered East-coast sixties psych sound, a sound of reconnection with lush landscapes.
That stated, like on the implausible single Burning 305 (which caught us unexpectedly earlier this 12 months), they’re nonetheless capable of kick up the nation highway mud on a monitor we stated was dripped within the woozy sounds of this present neo-psych revolution, one which journeys alongside, blissfully entwined melodies skipping and enjoying off each other. It’s an early stand out on an album that Skips Bifferty alongside, twisting and floating by means of fixed adjustments of temper and textures, the rhythms catching you subconsciously as a refined bassline reaches out and attracts your ear additional in.
They return to these extra pressing vibes on songs like Howling Canine Music, undoubtedly one for any Gizzard followers craving for them to return to their flipped out and wigging neo-psych. Tripping over itself to succeed in the tip, the band tumble by means of adjustments of tempo and sound that leaves you dizzy, whereas Tiergarten drives them forwards on a continuing rhythm. But these moments are dashing cracks in an album whose songs take in you, engulf you, wrap you in a hazy consolation by means of which they weave their magic.
Single The Rating showcases simply what the band are able to after they ply their gentler, extra mystical methods. The trickling acoustic arpeggios give strategy to blissful vocals that glide, gently lilting and dropping as they weave their means out of the track. With additional out east to Japanese-psych particulars, the track is a gorgeous journey. It’s the identical general vibe that carries the album as a complete. By way of such tracks as Name Up The Physician and Solar For Rent they conjure the heat of a late afternoon summer time sundown over rolling fields, a sense of peace in turbulent instances, a second of calm to hold by means of the day.
Reaching out westward, however nonetheless with a gaze to the east, Twist Of A Nerve, with its sluggish and loping acoustic guitar and melody, recollects BRMC’s Howl, one other feather of their cap to show that they have already got many avenues open to discover. The Meadlowland right down to which they’ve travelled is one filled with delights to select from. Having taken their time to seek out their focus for his or her debut album, Floral Picture have set themselves on a powerful course, firmly making their mark within the ever-flourishing trendy neo-psych scene.
Lay again and make a journey with them…
Floral Picture are on Bandcamp, Fb, Instagram, and Bluesky.
Catch Floral Picture stay in 2025 on the following dates:
03/05 – Angers, FR @ Joker’s Pub
04/05 – Nantes, FR @ Ubik
06/05 – Ingolstadt, DE @ Neue Welt
07/05 – Kusel, DE @ Kinett
09/05 – Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
10/05 – Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Membership Pageant
22/05 – Manchester, UK @ YES Basement
23/05 – Liverpool, UK @ Kazimer Stockroom
24/05 – Edinburgh, UK @ The Voodoo Rooms – The Speakeasy
25/05 – Newcastle, UK @ Zerox
28/05 – Bristol, UK @ The Lanes
29/05 – Brighton, UK @ Inexperienced Door Retailer
30/05 – London, UK @ MOTH Membership
31/05 – Norwich, UK @ Norwich Arts Centre
03/08 – Kendal, UK @ Kendal Calling Pageant
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Phrases by Nathan Whittle. Discover his Louder Than Struggle archive right here.
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