Being just another vehicle, time machine, or maybe even a “white bicycle”, of Norwegian psychedelicate day tripper Øyvind Holm, Deleted Waveform Gatherings doesn’t really change the initial course of his previous band Dipsomaniacs (not to be confused with the American power-pop band of the same name).
Also, a quirky little band name isn’t the only thing he might have in common with Robert Harrison, formerly of Cotton Mather, and now of Future Clouds and Radar, using similar B-bands tools, before throwing them back at us, in an unusual and quite original form.
Opening with what might’ve been considered for an almost psychedelic boogie, called Morgue Itch, as from the next pair of Seconds Of Your Time and the title tune, along with Ride Pillion, he’s knee deep in ‘65/’66 Lennonisms, which he takes a bit farther into the decade, and into the next one later on, as heard in the bluesy Walk On Glass, as well as Minefield Baby.
The title of the Vaudevillian, and just as bluesy, Ramshackle Paranoia Stomp almost sounds as yet another one of Skip Spence’s Oar outtakes, with the song itself not really being that far from the concept either, though in a more developed way, reminding a bit of Ronnie Lane’s late-Faces/early-Slim Chance work.
Of the even weirder ones, there’s the funky folk Beck-lash of Ways Around It, the spooky Sonic Youth-ful-guitar-driven mood of Emily Barratt’s Dead, and the closing cello-laden baroquirk Drawing Moons, sounding kind of like an imaginary Lennon/Drake collaboration.
Though really a bit more “complicated” than your average pop album, this one happens to be a pretty spectacular “view”.
[Released by Rainbow Quartz 2007]
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