Melbourne instrumental soul band The Cactus Channel are hypnotic and mesmerising, with circling melodies that posses neither beginning nor end.
However, with the presence of Ball Park Music's Sam Cromack's singing on this collection of songs, their music well and truly takes on a cinematic life its own, like smoke curling around a crescent moon.
While Cromack's warbly croon is certainly far from a traditional soul performance, the band's spiralling sounds complement his introspection in a way that borders on the psychedelic. Genres are melted and broken down, only to be revealed to be made of the same mysterious elements. It's musical alchemy, performed by wizards of the highest order.
