BIPOLAROID - E(I)ther Or CD (NEW) (M)

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(BIPOLAROID UNABASHEDLY EMBRACES THEIR DEVOTION TO EARLY PINK FLOYD AND, MORE SO, SYD BARRETT’S SOLO MATERIAL: BEN GLOVER’S VOCALS ARE INEXTRICABLE FROM THEIR BARRETT INFLUENCE. THOUGH DISMAYING IN THE IMMEDIATE, REPEAT LISTENS REVEAL BOTH GLOVER’S AND THE BAND’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN A GENRE THAT HAS FEW 21ST CENTURY REPRESENTATIVES. MOST PSYCHE-ROCK THESE DAYS IS DIRECTLY INFORMED BY THE LOOSE VIBE OF THE 13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS AND THEIR SPAWN, AS FLOYD’S PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN HAS GONE ON TO ANOTHER FATE. BIPOLAROID MISSED THE GARAGE-PSYCHE BUS (AND SEEM REFRESHINGLY UNAFFECTED BY ELEPHANT 6, EXCEPT IN A FEW MINOR CIRCUMSTANCES) AND HAVE ENDED UP WITH AN AESTHETIC SENSE THAT SEPARATES THE BAND FROM THEIR CONTEMPORARIES. WERE IT NOT FOR THE VOCALS, “A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A RAINCLOUD” COULD SOUND LIKE A SPACEMEN 3 HOMAGE. “TRANSPARENT-MAKE BELIEVE” (ALSO THE NAME OF THE BAND’S FIRST RECORD) IMMEDIATELY CONJURES VISIONS OF OPEL. “CUCUMBERSOME” IS MUCH COOLER THAN ITS UNFORTUNATE NAME, PROVING TO BE ONE OF THOSE SONGS THAT IS LIKE ONE BIG CLIMAX FROM START TO FINISH, FEATURING ORGANS THAT ADD TEXTURE WHILE POPPING ABOVE THE SURFACE ONCE IN A WHILE TO DANCE ACROSS THE GUITAR CHORDS. THE RECORD’S TWO WEAKEST TRACKS ARE BACK TO BACK: “KARMIC ENGINES,” FOUR MINUTES OF CYMBAL CRASHES WITH A GENTLE INTERLUDE, NEITHER OF WHICH COALESCES, FOLLOWED BY “MOUTH OF LIONS,” WHICH NEVER REACHES THE LOFTY, EPIC STATUS IT REACHES FOR...)