We were wowed by The Vacant Lots killer split with Alan Vega earlier this year, since then they put out a debuting album ‘Departure’ via Sonic Cathedral which I suspect we need to hear very soon for fear of spontaneously combusting.
Anyhow here’s the hymnal sounding ‘Paint this City’ by the vacant lots clearly still experiencing flashbacks from that encounter with the Suicide man, a glacially enigmatic slo-mo brooding and mellowing psych soul ballad done to darkly sparse and found freewheeling into latter career Spacemen 3 territories. For those preferring turntable matters a little more forged in feedback scowls and smoked out lip curls will do well to seek out the flip side ‘Departure’ – strangely not on the album despite its title but sounding very much like a prowling and mooching Lou Reed heading up some softly fuzzed out psych reaction cooked up by those dudes Sonic Boom and Sunray.
The Vacant Lots hit the UK this week for the following dates:
September 24 – London – Shacklewell Arms
September 25 – Rugby – Vault
September 26 – Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia
September 28 – Southend – The Railway Hotel
September 29 – Bristol – Start The Bus
