Listening to this album, my first thoughts are have they really been together 20 years, and how have I missed them for that amount of time!!! This album is the band's first release in six years since 2003's 'Zen For Sale' and the compilation album 'Processed For DNA', the first on their own label.

Mainstay of the band is Gary Ramon and, for this album, his main collaborator Russel Barrett (Chapterhouse) returns. So what have we got?

Musically. reading the blurb I expected late 60's psychedelia, shoegazing with grunge overtones - never trust the blurb; what we have is a grunge/metal album!! There are hints of Iggy, but apart from the opener 'Storm Coming', which had whispers of the Doors, this album owes much to its allegiance to Soundgarden, Nirvana et al, but with Hetfield-style vocals.

Back checking their catalogue, what you see is a band developing an identity with 1990's 'The Other Way Out' through 1993's 'Libertine', before becoming heavier with 'Acid Yantra' (1995) then imploding before returning with 'Zen For Sale' in 2003 and, I think, too long a gap until this self titled album.

I think the question is would this album sound like this without the gap? I really like this album but I think what you have is a band that got a little bit lost and are now regaining their feet but playing it safe. Well worth checking out, but I'd have liked to have seen them develop without the stop/starts.

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