ACID ROOSTER Vinyl & CDs

Review: Leipzig band Acid Rooster have been laying out their template for hard-boiled psych rock for some six years now, and they're getting stronger with each release. This latest album is made up of six long-form jams doused in FX and holding down sustained grooves in a manner which doffs its cap to the pioneers of krautrock from Ash Ra Tempel to Amon Duul. There is a dustier finish to the band though, as they show themselves to be equally in thrall to the lurid squall of the American psyche explosion, but somewhere in the middle they come out truly sounding like themselves.