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Album Review: Nicholas Allbrook - Ganough, Wallis And Fatuna

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Allbrook throws all your conventional psych bits and pieces into the pot and stirs

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Nicholas Allbrook’s debut solo effort starts off with guitar noodling. Surprise!

Allbrook throws all your conventional psych bits and pieces into the pot and stirs to create an album that ripples and blurs, that’s at once enigmatic and defined. At times the album is almost too chill, too quiet and understated from the beloved Pond frontman – we expect wailing energy, pomp and bombast from Allbrook, but then it kicks into gear and he delivers with the extended bass-heavy outro on ITTTME, and the lush synth closer QF325.