Release
date: July 29th 2016. Label: Red Sun Sounds. Format: CD/DD
We're
Already Inside Your Mind – Tracklisting
1.Inside
Your Mind Part 1 01:22
2.The
Wired And The Weird 07:13
3.Tangled
Up 04:28
4.Never
See The Sun 04:08
5.Ride
With Us 06:07
6.EARTH
07:01
7.Journey
To Agartha 03:16
8.Fire
Up The Engine Of God 03:03
9.Round
And Round 08:00
10.Inside
Your Mind Part 2 02:17
Band
Members:
Fry
- Vocals
Tom
- Bass
Carl
- Drums
Mike
- Guitar
Lucas
- Guitar
Review:
OK.
This time I wanna be honest with you guys. I never ever heard about
Lacertilia since last week, when Steve asked me if I wanted to review
their latest album, We’re Already Inside Your Mind, released by Red
Sun Sounds. Well, let me say that I was a real jerk to lose such a
stunning band.
Of
course, to my (partial) justification I have to say that the
South-Wales fivesome of Lacertilia is relatively new to the scene, as
they born in 2013/2014 around the time of the break-up of
vocalist Matt Fry's former band, The Witches Drum (God save
Riffpedia!). Anyhow, they collected an impressive amount of gigs,
sharing the stage with bands likes Karma To Burn, Elder, Trippy
Wicked, Bloody Hammers, Sir Admiral Cloudesley Shovell, Peter Pan
Speedrock, and countless others. Last but not least, noteworthy their
participation to the past Hellfest, which is not obvious for an
“emergent” band with just an EP behind, but certainly a showcase
for their forthcoming release.
But,
what about the music? It’s difficult to list all the many
influences behind Lacertilia, as their music is influenced by decades
of genres mixed all together in a concentrated of pure rock’n’roll.
We’re Already Inside Your Mind is not just an album title, is a
statement of intent as, just from the first listening this album will
put you directly in the head. In the sound of Lacertilia you’ll
find heavy psychedelic groove mixed with sludge and the punk of
60/70s, all seasoned by contemporary stoner and doom.
The
album unfolds around the central theme of how modern technology, laws
and the established order of things cloud people’s mind and their
brains in a sort of lethargy, where Lacertilia come as wise elders to
help humans to open their eyes and minds to see things as they really
are. We’re Already Inside Your Mind starts and ends with two short
and trippy instrumental songs remind me Monster Magnet, Inside Your
Mind Part I and II, which gently introduce, first, and then accompany
towards the end of the journey.
The
perfect business card to understand what you will expect from this
album is masterfully enclosed in The Wired And The Weird, a groovy
melting pot of sonic indulgence where all different influences blend
together perfectly. It follows two powerful songs, Tangled Up and
Never See The Sun, where the stoner waves mingle with
psychedelic/bluesy dead-lifts and punk outbursts. Ride With Us starts
slow and hypnotic, with a masterful use of echoes and reverberations
and ending with killer riffs sustaining the final mantra of the song,
an invitation to follow the elders.
The
stoner/blues of Earth introduces the instrumental Journey To Agartha
(one of my favourites), a psychedelic track in the vein of Samsara
Blues Experiment and Colour Haze. The relative calm and psychedelia
offered by the previous track come furiously swept away by Fire Up
The Engine Of God, a pure concentrate of rock’n’roll. With Round
And Round, Lacertilia turn almost into a psychedelic band fusing the
lysergic atmosphere of the seventies with a killer riffage that
reminds me Black Sabbath and Orange Goblin.
To
be best appreciated, We’re Already Inside Your Mind should be heard
more than once as easy and superficial listeners cannot appreciate
the real art behind this masterpiece. This album is
entertaining, well played and produced, never
boring and able to combine the psychedelic sound of
70s with modern tones of stoner and desert sound. I
don't know what you think about but, surely, Lacertilia have
conquered a new fan.
Words
by Bruno Bellisario
