ALUNAH
Strange Machine
HEAVY PSYCH SOUNDS Reconfigured doom/psych rockers glimpse a summer of love
These West Midlands doom merchants have employed a revolving door policy when it comes to bandmembers of late, but what has remained constant is their skill for penning robust, psych-and goth-tinged rockers. Album six, their second with singer Siân Greenaway and first with guitarist Matt Noble, sees them deliver their most exciting collection of songs yet. Fret wizard Ritchie Blackmore’s shadow looms over the likes of the title track and Fade Into Fantasy, while the gloom-laden single The Earth Spins, which boasts guitars from Crowbar’s Shane Wesley, bludgeons with the best of them. Best of all is the flower power-flavoured, flute-featuring freak-out, Psychedelic Expressway.