Floral Picture: Gone Down Meadowland
LP | CD | DL
Out twenty fifth April 2025
Norwich psych retailers Floral Picture journey between lush East-coast sounds of the sixties and extra pressing rushes on their debut album for Fuzz Membership Data.
Virtually three years in the past we picked up on a band who gave the impression of that they had “inhaled a large bong, took a couple of notes from the early Roses again catalogue and whipped it up with a little bit of Tame Impala, added a sprinkle of acid psych and had a phrase with the sunshine, for a laid again slab of indulgent hazy prog to provide a tune for the summer time.” Having honed their sound within the intervening years, Floral Picture at the moment are able to launch their full debut, an album that focuses in additional on the luxurious and layered East-coast sixties psych sound, a sound of reconnection with lush landscapes.
That mentioned, like on the incredible single Burning 305 (which caught us abruptly earlier this yr), they’re nonetheless capable of kick up the nation highway mud on a observe we mentioned was dripped within the woozy sounds of this present neo-psych revolution, one which journeys alongside, blissfully entwined melodies skipping and taking part in off each other. It’s an early stand out on an album that Skips Bifferty alongside, twisting and floating by way of fixed modifications of temper and textures, the rhythms catching you subconsciously as a refined bassline reaches out and attracts your ear additional in.
They return to these extra pressing vibes on songs like Howling Canine Music, undoubtedly one for any Gizzard followers craving for them to return to their flipped out and wigging neo-psych. Tripping over itself to achieve the tip, the band tumble by way of modifications of tempo and sound that leaves you dizzy, whereas Tiergarten drives them forwards on a continuing rhythm. But these moments are dashing cracks in an album whose songs take in you, engulf you, wrap you in a hazy consolation by way of which they weave their magic.
Single The Rating showcases simply what the band are able to after they ply their gentler, extra mystical methods. The trickling acoustic arpeggios give technique to blissful vocals that glide, gently lilting and dropping as they weave their approach out of the tune. With additional out east to Jap-psych particulars, the tune is a lovely journey. It’s the identical total vibe that carries the album as a complete. By way of such tracks as Name Up The Physician and Solar For Rent they conjure the heat of a late afternoon summer time sundown over rolling fields, a sense of peace in turbulent instances, a second of calm to hold by way of the day.
Reaching out westward, however nonetheless with a gaze to the east, Twist Of A Nerve, with its sluggish and loping acoustic guitar and melody, recollects BRMC’s Howl, one other feather of their cap to show that they have already got many avenues open to discover. The Meadlowland all the way down to which they’ve travelled is one filled with delights to select from. Having taken their time to search out their focus for his or her debut album, Floral Picture have set themselves on a powerful course, firmly making their mark within the ever-flourishing trendy neo-psych scene.
Lay again and make a journey with them…
Floral Picture are on Bandcamp, Fb, Instagram, and Bluesky.
Catch Floral Picture dwell in 2025 on the following dates:
03/05 – Angers, FR @ Joker’s Pub
04/05 – Nantes, FR @ Ubik
06/05 – Ingolstadt, DE @ Neue Welt
07/05 – Kusel, DE @ Kinett
09/05 – Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
10/05 – Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Membership Pageant
22/05 – Manchester, UK @ YES Basement
23/05 – Liverpool, UK @ Kazimer Stockroom
24/05 – Edinburgh, UK @ The Voodoo Rooms – The Speakeasy
25/05 – Newcastle, UK @ Zerox
28/05 – Bristol, UK @ The Lanes
29/05 – Brighton, UK @ Inexperienced Door Retailer
30/05 – London, UK @ MOTH Membership
31/05 – Norwich, UK @ Norwich Arts Centre
03/08 – Kendal, UK @ Kendal Calling Pageant
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Phrases by Nathan Whittle. Discover his Louder Than Struggle archive right here.
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