Drain: Double Vinyl LP

Label: Soul Selects/Well Kept Secret
Release Date: 12th June

When one gets into psychedelic music and they travel down those mind-bending wormholes, you can often find yourself going so deep you hit the bottom and the weird, the indulgent and the heavy just feels familiar and well, not very psychedelic. So as a well-travelled and slighted jaded space cadet, I'm always hyped to hear a band that give me the same dopamine hit I got after hearing pre-Dark Side Pink Floyd or Gong or King Crimson. Vorhex Angel are the project of Jake and Jamin Orrall of JEFF the Brotherhood and Silver Synthetic's Kunal Prakash who get it this sound and feel so right; these lot indulge but it's long-hairs in a hazy room wigging out and forging journeys in sound, it's spacious when needed and tight at the right moments to give that perfect tension and release. Best psych rock I've heard in an absolute age and I can't stop going back for more, it feels like a long lost classic. 

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Sometime around 2024, Vorhex Angel emerged seemingly out of the ether: no social media presence, no identities, simply their name popping up in Nashville
or New Orleans on a flyer here and there. Those with enough curiosity to attend their live show could be met with any number of unexpected things to spike
the senses: elaborate stage dressing, strobe lights (alternatively, complete darkness), burning things, pre-performance ingestibles. The music at those
functions matched the mystery. They were loud, unhinged, and visceral as all hell.
If the group's two live releases and debut Heavenly are indeed visceral (Raven Sings the Blues did name them "heirs to the maelstrom of High Rise"), then
followup Drain is surely their cerebral offering. Its seven tracks guide the listener from morning to night, a sprawling experimental double album with larger
than life guitar solos, spaced-out drone excursions, and moments of potent intensity throughout. For the first time, we see Vorhex Angel trade their pummeling
sonic onslaught for moody and more dramatic pastures. The band—revealed to be brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall of JEFF the Brotherhood and Silver
Synthetic's Kunal Prakash—push the parameters of the Vorhex Angel concept outward, inviting new players into their circle, adding more risk and generating
more reward. "Drain is not in-the-background cooking-type music," warns Kunal, before winking: "Maybe it is for particularly adventurous chefs."
Vorhex Angel promises there will be more. More jams, more left turns—just this year, we can expect at least one tour and at least two (!) more albums. For
now, there is Drain to celebrate, to sit and chew on, to allow the listener to breathe out and in like the music does, with ample room for cerebral
contemplation.
TRACKLISTING
Side A
1. A Prophecy
Side B
1. Weight
2. Okie's Song Pt.1
3. Okie's Song Pt.2
Side C
1. Honey
2. A Spark
Side D
1. The Great Fatted Bull (Stone Tablet #36)