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Robin Webb discovers an alternative psychedelic soundtrack for summer
Suicide Squeeze
Released: 10.07.26
Image by James Oswald
With its hazy awakening, Holy Wave’s album opener US 54 brings us swiftly to a woozy driving groove with subdued synth and an endless echo that is abruptly cut short followed by a similar beat, clarified and interspersed by fuzzed outer phase shoegaze and barely discerned dialogue. It’s a lot in the only the first two tunes but is indicative of the thought and depth on display here. Listening in the heat and miasma of our summer seemed a fitting stage for its overall laid-back noise, a perfect way to accompany the mind’s drift occasioned by delightful Stereolab-like rhythms driving the collection on with quirky synth asides along its rather pleasant motorik amble.
The title track i’m DADA livens up affairs somewhat with its riffs and heavier beats while under the radar samples dance around, obscured in reverse with incoming guitars that wig out in compressed feedback – it’s a tight fitting highlight that’s for sure. Working with Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, collectively they’ve managed to create a perfectly neat alt-summer psychedelic soundtrack for this heat haze wearisome soul at the least.
