Hardy perennials of the boutique arty indie festival circuit, Bardo Pond have spent two decades dowsing Terrastock and All Tomorrow’s Parties punters with reliably transportative swathes of feedback drenched psychedelia.
But, quietly and incrementally, they grow ever more majestic.
Isobel Sollenberger’s whale mother vocals and delicate flute parts float through a stew now equal parts fire music free jazz and sulphurous bad acid blues.
Like bikers meditating in a zen garden, Bardo Pond’s genius is in the collision of contrasts.
(17/11/13)
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