MILD HIGH CLUB - Going Going Gone LP

Label: Stones Throw

Centred around the songs of composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist Alex Brettin, Mild High Club developed from pleasantly warped soft rock into far more ambitious and musically rich material. Brettin teamed with Australian psychedelic shapeshifters King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard for the tripped-out jazz of their 2017 collaborative album Sketches of Brunswick East, taking the stylistic exploration he did on his own even further out. The third proper Mild High Club album continues to push further in terms of more complex arrangements and more adventurous songwriting, but also finds Brettin clearing away some of the experimental clutter that could come off as random on earlier albums.

Going Going Gone reaches new levels of clarity and composition for Mild High Club without losing any of the damaged magic that made earlier albums such interesting puzzles. It's fun, mischievous, and wildly enjoyable, Brettin and friends turning strait-laced soul-funk and Weather Channel jazz inside-out and dancing gleefully around the confusing and wonderful results.