Listen: Islet – Triangulation Station

Cardiff experimental quartet Islet return to show the current crop of psych acts how it’s done.

The first cut from their second full-length LP, Released By The Movement, ‘Triangulation Station’ lashes splintered cymbal ticks and venerable synth organ trills together; creating a sticky compound that simply refuses to be digested. No complaints from us. Despite its unruly structure – and we use that word in the loosest sense – the whole track is swaddled in wisps of endearingly proggy dreaminess. From the repetitive drum cycles and madcap synth sequences to Mark’s wiry loudhailer vox careering into Emma’s equally distorted but distinctly sweetened chirping; it’s sticky as hell but somehow it all works.

Chuck in some spectral gospel choir-aping background harmonies and you’re left with a genuinely quite demented but nonetheless brilliant soiree through the murky marshes of psychedelia old, and new.

‘Triangulation Station’ is out on 10 June via Mark’s label, Shape Records.