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 an enormous bong, took a couple 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 music 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 plush and layered East-coast sixties psych sound, a sound of reconnection with lush landscapes.
That mentioned, like on the improbable single Burning 305 (which caught us unexpectedly earlier this yr), they’re nonetheless in a position to kick up the nation street mud on a observe we mentioned was dripped within the woozy sounds of this present neo-psych revolution, one which journeys alongside, blissfully entwined melodies skipping and taking part in off each other. It’s an early stand out on an album that Skips Bifferty alongside, twisting and floating via fixed adjustments of temper and textures, the rhythms catching you subconsciously as a delicate bassline reaches out and attracts your ear additional in.
They return to these extra pressing vibes on songs like Howling Canine Track, positively 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 top, the band tumble via adjustments of tempo and sound that leaves you dizzy, whereas Tiergarten drives them forwards on a relentless rhythm. But these moments are dashing cracks in an album whose songs take in you, engulf you, wrap you in a hazy consolation via which they weave their magic.
Single The Rating showcases simply what the band are able to once they ply their gentler, extra mystical methods. The trickling acoustic arpeggios give solution to blissful vocals that glide, gently lilting and dropping as they weave their means out of the music. With additional out east to Japanese-psych particulars, the music is an exquisite journey. It’s the identical total vibe that carries the album as an entire. By 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 occasions, a second of calm to hold via the day.
Reaching out westward, however nonetheless with a gaze to the east, Twist Of A Nerve, with its gradual 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 stuffed with delights to select from. Having taken their time to search out their focus for his or her debut album, Floral Picture have set themselves on a robust course, firmly making their mark within the ever-flourishing fashionable neo-psych scene.
Lay again and make a journey with them…
Floral Picture are on Bandcamp, Fb, Instagram, and Bluesky.
Catch Floral Picture dwell 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 Battle archive right here.
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