This Cornish psychedelic stoner band have been active for a while now, this album represents their fourth full length effort. Compared to their first couple of releases, the tempo has gone down and the heaviness has increased. Rather than your typical desert stoner, they’re more Goatsnake stoner. ‘Hypercomputer, Pt 1’ is mammoth. The time signature is slightly more than ambling and the changes that are present throughout the song give this a cool foundation for the album.

The thunderous supersonic riffing of ‘The Cetacean’ is an upturn in fortunes for this release. The slab in questions is heavier that’s for sure. Moving onwards to the monstrous riffing delivered during ‘The Ivory Tower’, has me thinking of Cathedral’s ‘Garden of Unearthly Delights’, it has a similar stance. Part 2 of the ‘Hypercomputer’ story has a lot more longevity, at over 9 minutes, its keeps going, it doesn’t really travel that far. I felt sparse and quite removed on some sections. However, overall, the album mix and flow is damn fine, a like the merging into each following track, as if it’s one big jam that’s gained more appeal for me the more and more I play the entire album.

Admittedly I prefer the speedier tempo’s associated with earlier albums, but ‘Absurdum As Nauseam’ is no couch potato. It may well be slower, it has gone more intense heavier as a result which has balanced the traits and pushed the group forward in one sense. All in all, a comfortable release, with once again crazy abstract artwork going along with the music presenting a darker comment and vision of where humanity is going.

(7/10 Paul Maddison)

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