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    END OF THE ROAD Larmer Tree Gardens, Wiltshire, September 2–5

    Oct 21, 2021 4 minutes
    MARK BEAUMONT & SAM RICHARDS

    FOR those of us who’ve barely left the house for 18 months, End Of The Road’s wooded wonderland of disco ships, cider buses, neon cactuses and actual peacocks feels almost overwhelmingly vivid. Thursday’s bill seems designed to ease us in gently: the untethered kosmische journeys of paisley-shirted Tokyo psych revivalists are laced with an endearing delicacy, while Woods Stage headliners are the perfect band to bridge the mildly agoraphobic period between lockdown isolation and rock’n’roll communalism. There’s a timeless reassurance to their evocations of ’60s lounge pop, but also an urgency to their jazzy sci-fi grooves which speaks to the tensions

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