Thursday, April 23, 2026

Kikagaku Moyo - Masana Temples (2018)

 

The fifth album from this band from Japan.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, sitar, organ and vocals.

This album is clocking in at forty minutes.

The band has gone from being a more freeflowing space rock band to become a more structured psych rock band. This process started on the previous album House In The Tall Grass and is carried on here on Masana Temples. 

The music is pretty melodic. It is still quirky and weird. 

The album starts with some sitars before the more western music like instruments takes over. The uncredited organs is also adding some weirdness to the album.

The guitars are good and so is the vocals. The words are a bit difficult to grasp. Hence, they may be in  Japanese, their local tongue. In any case, they work as an instrument and add a lot to this album.  

The music is psych rock but still pretty exotic to a pair of Western civilisation ears. The band is pretty exotic and colourful. 

The music is really good throughout this album and this makes this another good album from this band. This is a band I really like.

3 points 

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