Vibravoid has been channeling its Kraftwerk-meets-13th Floor Elevators sound for thirty-five years now, and this album shows the band has little interest in slowing down soon. If my earlier description doesn't help you, think of something halfway between Psychocandy and Automatic (but a bit more sprightly than Darklands). At this point, I think I've lost just about everyone.

Vibravoid Remove the Ties (echodelickrecords)

These guys are both more Krautrock and psych than JAMC, but for some reason I keep flashing on the Reid brothers as I listen to this. Vibravoid is more experimental, even if this album does not contain their usual lengthy fuzz-laden tangent. Rather, the pieces here are more crafted, even if a couple do clock in at close to eight minutes.

Again, these guys have been plying these waters since the previous century. They play styles that are well-traveled and even possibly played out. And yet, this album is a blast of fresh air, finding new arcs of light flashing through the window.

I've run into Vibravoid now and then over the years. This is as sharp and creative as I've heard the band in some time. Time to break out the lava lamp and blacklight disco ball and prepare for a fuzzy apocalypse.

Jon Worley