psych insight music - Album Review: Mind Minerals by Carlton Melton

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psych insight music - Album Review: Mind Minerals by Carlton Melton

It’s an album that announces itself with a bang, and leaves with a flourish; yet in between there’s plenty there to sit and just be… to zone out and refuel. It is very much an album that has to be played in full to be properly appreciated, and for me that’s very welcome in a culture that wants its gratifications far too quickly. Here Carlton Melton release the musical pheromones slowly and allow you time to react accordingly. …

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Live Review: Carlton Melton, Manchester, UK, Feb. 23, 2018

Live Review: Carlton Melton, Manchester, UK, Feb. 23, 2018

And thus the show pendulum swings from the cutting-edge to the primordial, from head-feeding to head-banging. So are the men of Carlton Melton highly advanced aliens slumming it through a primitive form of rock or are they cavemen soundtracking the ballet of celestial bodies? … eric bensel

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soundblab reviews carlton melton 'mind minerals'

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soundblab reviews carlton melton ‘mind minerals’ !!!!

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…The 10 minute Snow Moon takes its time to develop with Manley's low, squelchy, Juno synth snaking around an Ambient drone. The feeling that you have with Carlton Melton is that they have all the time in the world, nothing is forced into creation but rather evolves in its own time. There are also glimpses of a deconstructed Tangerine Dream here. The intriguingly titled A Basketful Of Trumpets is next. Needless to say neither basket nor trumpet appears but instead a tentative Psychedelic guitar line weaves around Duvall and Clint Golden's quiet drums and bass.

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