Mandrake Handshake - Earth Sized WorldsThe concept tying together every last note and lyric of Earth Sized Worlds the debut album from the London Oxford self dubbed Flowerkraut collective Mandrake Handshake is an awfully simple one: Welcome to Space Beach. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi limbed organism varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members its an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against

Free Love and their music are a conscious study in duality: thumping live tracks and meditational mantras

mighty drums (at times in pairs)

On ‘Giving the World Away

Korwar boiled this down to the circular KALAK symbol which he then presented to his band before recording began

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it is deeply subversive

'be hit' and the extraordinary 'prince alone in the studio' are amongst his finest to date

Snoop Dogg & Dr Dre

endless dopeåÊsmokery and a pretty strong vibe of dudes who would play together intoåÊoblivion

Drums and bass were tracked at Electrical Audio in Chicago to maximize the natural room sounds of the rhythm section

New Fries from Toronto

Montgomery‰۪s uncanny baritone pierces the torrential clangor