(Yep! Records/Undercover Music)

Australia’s psychiest and poppiest psych-pop band!

The last time I saw The Lovetones support good mates The Brian Jonestown Massacre, they played a competent set, blending two-part harmonies with psychedelic drones and trance-rock elements. However, new album Dimensions suggests they have a great deal more to offer than that performance suggested. The first three songs ably illustrate the adventurousness of this exceptional guitar pop record, beginning with the Moog twiddling and David Gilmour-esque guitar shapes of instrumental opener Moonlit Suite (Her Room), followed by the shimmering melodicism of Journeyman, then into the ‘60s pop strut of Two Of A Kind. The harmonies occasionally bring to mind the delicate majesticism of The Church, while Mellotron daubs keep things sweepingly psychedelic. The hook-filled Love And Redemption and the orchestral swish of Song To Humanity are two further examples of this record’s impressive and effortless scope. Australia has yet to really embrace this four-piece (led by the gifted songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Matthew Tow), but if there is any justice, Dimensions will remedy this situation somewhat.

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MATT THROWER

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