The Sails – A Headful Of Stars – Rainbow Quartz – RQTZ173 - ***

On the tabla-propelled Travel, The Sails play sitar-flanged psychedelia in the style of The Beatles' post-enlightenment incarnation. Yesterday And Today draws a line from Honeybus' 1968 single I Can't Let Maggie Go to The La's' wondrous eighties one hit There She Goes.
Dogs plunders the twelve-string folk-rock of The Hollies, in the interlude between ditching their matching suits and swallowing their sugar cubes.
If all late sixties British acid-pop were destroyed, and recreated from DNA particles lodged in Oasis' Dig Out Your Soul album, it might sound like A Headful Of Stars, an extremely satisfying exercise in reconstructive surgery.

(9/1/11)