Highlights of the week from 55 items in NEW ARRIVALS List #163 (30 May 2003) :

SURFACE OF ECEYON Dragyyn (Strange Attractors Audio House) cd
Second release from this cosmic psych rock ensemble (which features folks from Yume Bitsu and Landing) and it continues their entropic quest for transcendental enlightenment via wah wah pedals, big amps and long, long songs. This is some druggy, space-y, droney, stretched out, blissed out, EPIC shit. This is like Hawkwind played by indie kids, a punk rock Tangerine Dream, a more dreamy Comets On Fire. You get the picture. Noodly guitars are stretched out over droning organs, slowly building into monstrous slabs of psychedelic swirl and heady heaviness. Krautrock rhythms demarcate loose fields of strum and twinkle, inducing hypnotic head nodding and stretched out serenity. PLUS, the record is called Dragyyn AND there's a picture of a dragon on the cover AND the inside text tells the whole Surface Of Eceyon and Dragyyn mythology AND the bands line-up is identified as Seabearde, Lyfeforce, Sephryn, Dragyyn, and Eceyonic Man. I mean, c'mon! If I smoked pot, I would definitely pop this in my boombox, get a bunch of weed, and go lay on top of a hill looking for dragon shaped clouds and trying to figure out the meaning of everything