Captcha Records announced this week that they will be hooking up with the “UK’s FINEST psychedelic record label, Cardinal Fuzz“, as well as Australia’s trash punk label, Homeless Records. In their attempt to release music that is “affordable and accessible…regardless of geographic location“, while by-passing the “crooked sharks in the industry“, the labels have joined forces to form a sort of peer-to-peer co-opperative of shared marketing and distribution. The result…more killer psych music from the outer reaches–like Anthroprophh‘s frighteningly alien new offering, U.F.O.. On this latest effort, the UK trio, comprised of The Heads Paul Allen and the Big Naturals Gareth Turner and Jesse Webb, take their thematic cues from England’s strange history of U.F.O. sightings, naming every track on the record after a date and location of such encounters. While the band’s 2014 offering Outside the Circle might have found them stretching a bit, at times, to find their weirdness, on U.F.O. it flows effortlessly. This is one of those truly frightening records that has the ability to alter a room’s atmosphere, and make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Instrumental in scope and more ambient than Outside the Circle, on U.F.O. the trio’s krautrock and Hawkwind leanings are mostly set aside for an experience that seems looser and more improvised. This allows the trio to draw from a seemingly ancient well of inchoate bubbling sonics, which they then channel into eery atmospheres that might actually invite close encounters of the third kind!
