Electric keys groove band Golden Mean are much more hard edged than on 2020's Through Walls - bass guitarist Tom Driessler, guitarist Luke Wynter, keyboardist Lyle Barton and now drummer Jamie Murray on board instead of Matt Davies on that earlier EP. There's a perkiness to 'Intra' kicking things off. And that upbeat positivity continues on title track 'Oumuamua' - the piece developing a bit more heat the more old school jazz-rock it becomes. On 'Red Horizon' Murray at the kit becomes engagingly hyper active and that sizzling fervour is more involving. A studio album recorded last summer 'The Hive' where Dreissler enters the Stanley Clarke domain a bit, always an ideal destination, is the best track. Out today with physical formats to follow in August - a cover art detail is in the photo
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- Through Walls reviewed in 2020
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