Stream: Acid Glasses release mixtape after being deported by UK Customs

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Last Thursday I published an Introducing piece on Acid Glasses which was focussed around their excitement at coming over to the UK to play their first shows. A day later Memphis-born Nick Burk, and his gigging accomplice, travelled to London all the way from Tennessee to play Binnacle festival at the Old Blue Last. Arriving at Heathrow, Burk and co were turned away by UK Customs due to unforeseen circumstances and sent back to the US without being able to play a note.

Their absence meant that yours truly could actually make it to London for the weekend, taking the floorspace at the house they had meant to be staying. So you’d think that this would offer some sort of silver lining for me, but it also meant that the vacant second-billing slot that they were supposed to play on the Sunday leg was filled with a lengthy and torrid wait for headliner Active Child to find the right adapters – a good 90 minutes spent just wishing Acid Glasses were there to transfix us with psychedelic bliss. Oh, circumstance is a strange and cruel thing.

Luckily, Burk has responded to the crushing fiasco with optimism, and the offering of a free mixtape – the appropriately titled ‘Tape, Deported’. This release is a disparate but zany mixed bag, originally meant to be sold during their first European excursion.

The mixtape features nine new tracks, including ‘Polnara Setera’, and can be download for free from Bandcamp.

New double A-side single ‘My Pale Garden / Jpeg Hoarder’ is out now on Stroll On Records.