Country Ways

with exclusive mixtape compiled by the band. brand new album from carlton melton, the san franciscan four-piece carlton melton release country ways (agitated), a new jam of gargantuan proportions. featuring former zen guerilla members, andy duvall (guitar and drums) and rich millman (guitar and synthesizers) alongside brian mcdougall (drums) and john steuernagel (bass), country ways is their second album conjuring colossal riff laden dronescapes and parched psychedelically enhanced spacerock creating a mind altering magick carpet ride down the californian highway%u2026. loud, uncompromising, and yet not a blundering stoned beast, this album has levels of delicate pastoral san franciscan psych blowing through the almost freeform spaced noise jam. carlton melton are less concerned with the pulse, rhythm, and the groove, as they are with the sound, and the vibe, weaving lush, expansive sprawls of fx drenched psychedelic ambience; drifting more often than driving, huge clouds of swirling wah guitars, and minimal spare drumming, existing more as a pulse, than a beat - the band drift weightless though swirling starlit sonic skies before the descent into trance inducing drones burrowing deep into the earth. their sound - loose, free, abstract and ephemeral.