CARLTON MELTON - Night Pillers 12" (colour vinyl)

Limited edition white colour vinyl.

Five tracks cut from the same session as 2020’s very decent Where This Leads, the wandering kosmiche of Night Pillers is arguably both. Sure, similar in the main part to content on that album it doesn’t need to exist in the Carlton Melton instrumental canon, but there’ll be enough folk glad it does.

Deeply meditative, New Age synth-drones come filled out with an ear-swelling hum of static and disorientated guitar tones, sun-dappled licks hand-picking your aura clean in the process. A dollop of relatively harsh floor drums introduce some righteous slo-mo soloing that undulates forth like gravitational waves distorting the Dark Side of The Moon’s laser show back in ’74.

Just as Where This Leads surprised with the inclusion of piano, so does mini-album highlight “High Noon Thirty” with crude drum machine rips and an electronic skitter, killer flatline drone underpinning more liquid lead-guitar zoning borrowed from the likes of Ripley Johnson.