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    ORANSSI PAZUZU

    Jun 25, 2020 1 minute

    Finnish mesmerists blast their new album into space

    a streamed performance can capture the magic of should spend an hour slackjawed and spellbound in front of their laptop with this: blackened psych space voyagers Oranssi Pazuzu heading. Shot in tasteful black-and-white for opener , the band merge reptilian gurgles with krautrock hypnotism, slowly building towards torrential waves of cosmic power. Before you quite know what’s happened, the picture has blossomed into full colour and the band have dragged you in like the wispy, stinging tentacles of some beautiful but malevolent alien lifeform, with plush synth work swaddling everything from immense wonky riffs and breathless howls to a bout of strange, trombone-enabled drone.

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