Cold sweat, ceiling fan and radio static coalescing into motorik pulse that’s the sound of Brokenchord’s second LP for South of North, and it operates in the headspace where paranoia and groove become indistinguishable. Ernestas Kausylas pushes further from his electronic roots into scuzzy guitar-driven territory here across eight tracks that move in ever-widening circles from ‘Prowler”s propulsive opener through eleven minutes of full lysergic space rock on ‘Liquid Mind Experiment’. The opiated groove of ‘MKUltra Scarecrow,’ the slack Neu! energy of ‘CRACK!’ and ‘Get Lost’ befor ‘Tomorrow Knows’ grinds it out to a dubbed finale. Can, stoner jams, garage sleaze and widescreen space rock.

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