THE LICK ON THE TIP OF AN ENVELOPE YET TO BE SENT

If the tripped-out cover art and whimsical album title didn't give it away, the LARP-tastic band photos on the interior of The Lick On the Tip of an Envelope Yet To Be Sent gives it away: Circulus are very much throwback kids, a musical project intent on recapturing the spirit of those freak folk bands of late 1960s/early 1970s Britain who liked to attempt to evoke an medieval atmosphere without necessarily knowing that much about authentic medieval music - but still being dab hands at blending acoustic guitar-focused folk music with tripped out psychedelic contributions via keyboard and synthesiser.

Let's face it: you either love this sort of stuff or cannot possibly see the appeal, but for my money I reckon this is a pretty decent example of this sort of thing. Whether there's all that much substance here beyond the schtick is another matter, and I tend to find that listening to the album just makes me want to go and revisit the band's various influences yet again, but if you can't get enough of this sort of thing this is inoffensive.