Da Captain Trips - Adventures in the Upside Down (2018) (Full Album)

Da Captain Trips - Adventures in the Upside Down (Full Album) Da Captain Trips have always been a band not constrained by one single approach to music making, they incorporate many different styles, genres etc in their output making them always interesting and always worth checking out. 'Adventures In The Upside Down' is no different - taking in psychedelia, Space Rock, Prog, krautrock and even surf and, all in all, a damn fine listen! 'The Calm And The Storm' opens the album with a long, drawn out drone and some electronic effects before a lonesome guitar is heard over the drone - it's all very melancholic and sounding distinctly nautical, with a 'twanging' downbeat surfy vibe. The track opens up to become a motoring psych/space rock number with flashes of kosmische electronica under the guitar. 'Manta' has an intro that reminded me of the 'Knightrider' theme - random I know!. However, it immediately transforms into another chuggin' track with more than a hint of krautrock about it...so far, so great. 'Revelation' is something different altogether....the twang heard in the first track returns with vengeance...a trippy, surf vibe is built, like Jan and Dean on acid, broken only by passages of more cosmic electronica and jazzy psych with saxophone courtesy of Lee Relfe from Sendelica. It's a great track that leaves the listener wondering where things are going next. 'Dear Zahdia' has a very retro feel about it, the vibe is very seventies with flashes of prog, mainly due to the organ sounding synth work. As the track travels it's course things become heavier and far more psych. 'Trespasses Bay - Peaceful Place' is the longest and most complex of the tracks. It has again that wonderful twang guitar giving it a surf feel and, like the previous track, it does have a proggy feel at times but in the main it is a slowburning, psychedelic meander, chocked full of atmosphere and plenty of reverb. The last section has some great electronica that once again takes us back to the seventies. The album is brought to a close by 'Mother Earth'...starting with some bucolic guitar that is bordering on folk, it is an initially pastoral track that shows another side to the band - a side that is not afraid to eschew their psychedelic musings for something more introspective and contemplative... for a while at least..it blossoms into a superlative jam as it nears the end of it's ten minute length. 'Adventures In The Upside Down' is a great album, full of invention and wonder - taking different aspects of the 'psych' world and mixing them to form an album that is actually remarkably restful and evocative. It is still as trippy as hell in places but, maybe more than their other recordings, more reliant on technique and craft rather than all out jamfests. It is, in short, a 'grown up' album. Review from Dayzofpurpleandorange http://dayzofpurpleandorange.blogspot... 1. The Calm And The Storm - 0:00 2. Manta - 6:04 3. Revelation - 11:01 4. Dear Zahdia - 18:00 5. Trepasses Bay - 23:48 6. Peaceful Place - 28:48 7. Mother Earth - 35:22 Support Da Captain Trips by purchasing the album here: https://dacaptaintrips.bandcamp.com/a...   / dacaptaintrips   https://dacaptaintrips.wordpress.com/ Support the continued funding of this channel, become a Patreon   / meadowofdoom   Join the SMOD Nation Facebook Group!   / 188446978378035