Sunwatchers - IIBrooklyn ensemble Sunwatchers return with the incendiary follow up to their 2016 eponymous debut, the appropriately titled II. The quartet continues to defy adequate description, incorporating elements of free jazz, psychedelia, punk, Ethiopian and Thai music and funk into a dizzy, invigorating sound. II kicks off with the click of sticks and launches into Nosebeers, a righteous burner that writhes and squawks with heady desert vibes and white hot

sticky piano figure played by Bainbridge to slowly melt into this gorgeous choral haze

DON‰۪T THINK I‰۪VE FORGOTTEN pays homage to the country‰۪s rock legends who paid for their creativity with their lives

Radiohead would throw their lot in with the skrakunk-skrakunk crowd

Gone were the heady days of ‰ÛÏWill The Circle Be Unbroken‰۝ and ‰ÛÏIf I Had A Hammer

' and self-explanatory 'Drug Party' certainly imply chemical enhancement

* Liner notes by Sam Sweet

along with Micah Nelson (guitar

Antony Hegarty's tremulous passion and Laura Mvula's boundary-straddling music

on street corners and in juke joints

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all backed by blistering riddims from the roots radics

including The Fall’s Mark E Smith