Prarie Prayers

Drawn on star-crossed compasses and singed over sagebrush bonfires, this latest Shimmer Kids release is map of the psych-pop frontier, a long-horned story of remote-control cowboys, cherry-bomb chieftains, and how the West was wondered. The Shimmer Kids offer the finest selection of homemade audiopiates: dirigible harmonies, church organs, mariachi horns, vibrating theremins, and rattling percussion, all stolen from the cluttered attic of rock 'n' roll history and shuffled together with a gleeful glue. So grab your Geiger counters and ten-gallon hats, future-bandits cross all borders and don't look back. Claiming influences as diverse as Spiritualized, The Flaming Lips, Belle & Sebastian and even The Ronettes, The Shimmer Kids Underpop Association has created a wonderfully orchestrated, incandescent sound world for fans of The Zombies and Donovan, the Spacemen 3 family tree, The Orange Alabaster Mushroom and The Green Pajamas, blissed-out T Rex and The Beach Boys legac