As the album title would suggest, this is a Solstice recording made by God’s Teeth And The Interstellar Tropics at The Old Market Theatre in Brighton in the pre-covid bliss of the winter of 2019.
A three-track recording that attempts to untangle your subconscious on a lysergic lance of percussive mis-shapes and vocalised abstracts, with a lovely Angus MacLise sensibility that floats on Karl MV Waugh’s seductive guitar thermals.
Tapering plumbs of promise that release a Mother Gong-like liturgy on “Energy From The Stars”, suggestive reflections from Dolly Rae Star that velcro the parabolics in screams, laughs and splattered metallics. A saturated arc swimming your head with richness, slipping gently out of focus in spiralling glints. The brief “Teethe” that follows steals your heart in possessive dirge. A slow roast of waltzing colour, subtly whipped’n’warped, warming you up for the record’s finale.“Now” begins with a Soliloquy For Lilith-like / “How To Destroy Angels” gravitas, all echoic, serpenting Godspeed-like, then feeding the jackals to a hypnotic horizon. A sparking moiré of Bridget Riley optics scribbling your skull revealing a little poetic flow to duelling dew. An illumining energy that tries to grasp the infinite in a flickering light of the darkest of nights.
-Michael Rodham-Heaps-
