I gotta say my anticipation was ready to blow when I put this record on. I?d had a taste of what Blues Control could muster on the pretty amazing and totally intriguing ?Riverboat Styx? cassette.

Having not had the benefit of seeing them live (I live in Australia, of all places) I was not at all sure how Blues Control actually do what that they do. I mean, I know they play guitar piano, keyboards and whatever else, but there is something about the interplay between these two that is totally mysterious, if not a little spooky.

If I was looking to ?Puff? to clear things up a little, then I was most definitely looking in the wrong place. This record is a hermetic psych rock creeper that rewards many listens.

The opening and title cut is a little bit like the Skaters with more prominent keyboards, all murky tape fidelity containing a mass of shifting odd sounds. The second cut ?Always on Time? begins as a swampy piano groove. The groove is slowly drowned in a pit of fuzz. It is a totally mesmerising track, the constant piano repetition leading to a sense of weightlessness. By the time the guitar enters your mind is truly somewhere else. It?s kind of like Monoshock playing in a river of molten amber.

?Behind the Skies? veers overtly towards the blues with a mutilated guitar and harmonica stomp. It reaches such a velocity that the tape-fidelity white noise threatens to engulf the whole thing. Amazing.

?End Zone? is just what the title suggests, not a touch down, but a total drop out with new-age keyboards obliterated by a searing guitar line.

This is a record to sink into, a sludgy almost-mess that winds up being a thing of undeniable originality and beauty. 10/10 -- Cola Nitida (24 April, 2007)