Drawing from musique concrète, post-punk, free psych, kosmische and of course dub, Valentina Magaletti, Al Wootton and Susumu Mukai’s Holy Tongue surpass themselves on their second album, turning in a set that’s almost completely unmoored from time and space. It’s heady, essential listening FFO The Pop Group, Popol Vuh, Equiknoxx, John T. Gast.
Holy Tongue have always been good, but after 2024’s ‘The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now’, a kaleidoscopic collaboration with the prolific Shackleton, they seemed to cross the veil into another headspace entirely – one that’s even more esoteric. That’s certainly the feeling we get on their new album Basilikum, opening with an intro that barely cracks a minute…

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