Adult Cinema "Hot And Cold"

Country: UK
Genre(s): Psychedelic, Retro Prog
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: October 2, 2020 (CD, vinyl), early November 2020 (digital)
Tracklist: 
1.  Hot and Cold
2.  Black God
3.  Have You Ever Flown Across The Sky?
4.  She Won’t Ever Let You Down
5.  Continuum 5
6.  Spanish Garden
7.  The Sun
8.  The Wind
9.  The Rain
10.  Egg
11.  It’s The Future For Us
12.  Here It Comes

Line-up: 
Mike Weston – All Instruments & Vocals

Description/Reviews: 

Comparisons with Pink Floyd have characterised previous perceptions of Adult Cinema, but it’s not until Continuum 5 that this influence clearly manifests itself with a pastoral acoustic guitar and softly spoken Gilmour-like vocal intro which then opens up with a rather sedate Mellotron drenched piece, but it’s one of the less interesting. Spanish Garden is altogether more captivating with great bass and organ interplay over some crisp drumming and we dive into a psychedelic whirl. This is a song throbbing with energy and richness, including a short horn interlude in the middle and then a short but cool wah wah guitar solo… and that’s just ‘Side A’!

The highlight of the whole album kicks off ‘Side B’ as a cosmic synth opening floats us towards The Sun which then grooves along infectiously on a glorious fat bassline, dextrous drumming… and yes, even some cowbell! The song bowls along joyously with colourful splashes of organ and an insistent earworm guitar melody with echoes of Blue Öyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper or the drive of the Spencer Davis Group – this is a blissed out, grooving piece of rock joy straight out of the late ’60s or early ’70s which has no right to exist in 2020, and yet still sounds as cool as… as… a very cool thing!

Read the full review by Leo Trimming at theprogressiveaspect.net

Media/Samples 
Sampler
Have You Ever Flown Across the Sky? (single version)
The Sun (single version)
Here It Comes (single version) 

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