THE PSYCHIC CIRCLE Schallplatten & CDs

Review: The listener is met with a 70s odyssey of Moog-infused cosmic krautrock and psychedelic baroque on this debut record from The Psychic Circle. A proggy sonic journey - Labyrinth meets Wizards meets Belladonna Of Sadness - this debut record from the band comprised of Tom McDowell, Jack Harris and J.D. is centred on the concept of a lone alchemist living at the top of an everlasting mountain, whose affliction by the curse of the Psychic Circle - a glowing orb that presages whatever his mind desires - ultimately leads to his downfall by way of an unleashing of dark magick across the land. To this tune, our ears are treated to noir, slack swords-and-sorcery prog rock buildups replete with occult chants and apogees, evoking warding spells, oubliettes to cobbled cells, pretties flying off into the night, and skulls doubling up as candelabrums.