OCTATROID

This is TRIP LAVA's second record and it's an instrumental concept album set in the future. Sort of a Science Fiction story I guess you could say. And while i'm not generally a fan of concept albums, instrumental ones usually aren't a problem for me. Usually. I'm a big fan of Psychedelic music but the noisy, experimental kind is often hard for me to digest. There's lots of that here because of the concept. So while I can appreciate the need for it as I follow the story line i'm not a fan of it. So that's my bigget issue with this album. In fact I prefer the debut to this one.

We get 13 songs over 37 1/2 minutes but the songs all sort of blend together making this a fairly seemless listen. As i mentioned earlier there's lots of abrasive sounds and experimentation. I do though like "Zidrakong The Sorcerer" especially a minute in where we get a great sounding section after the chaos.Then it picks back up. My favourite though is easily "Peace Returns" the final track. I just prefer this dreamy, melodic style of Psychedelia and this is beautiful. An excellent way to end the album especially after all the turbulence that has preceeded it.