FLYYING COLOURS - Fantasy Country LP (Blue Jay vinyl)

Label: Poison City

On limited edition Blue Jay colour vinyl. Australia's premier shoegaze-psych-rock quartet Flyying Colours return with their eagerly awaited 2021 long player 'Fantasy Country'. An album indebted to and enriched by influences plucked from the early 0s UK psych and shoegaze scene, Fantasy Country picks up from the band's fuzz-infused and widely-applauded 2016 debut Mindfullness and shapes out a new sonic monument, that is as rich in smouldering textures as it is with sprawling ambience, irresistible melodies and expansive pillars of sound. From the swooning, sludgy oodtimes' and urgent noise-fest of ig Mess', to the gorgeous melodic pop of K', Flyying Colours look to redefine noise within the context of pop music. Elsewhere, 'It's Real' is perfect, summery dreampop, while the crushingly loud 'White Knuckles' and chugging 'Boarding Pass' is a hazy, echo-laden, spaced-out affair. Flyying Colours have toured with Johnny Marr, Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Black Angels and A Place to Bury Strangers, and they recently did one of the KEXP Live At Home sessions which gained them a bunch of North American interest..