Songs of Lies and Deceit

Carlisle's The Lucid Dream deliver one of the fieriest pshychedlic trips of the year with their debut LP.

The debut from this Carlisle psych-rock quartet makes no attempt to hide its influences, but in its drawing of links across some impressively disparate territory – taking in Spector-esque pop, shoegaze and space rock – and the way it marshalls those influences into a cohesive whole, Songs of Lies and Deceit is a surprisingly mature record. Opener Hows Your Low When You’re Low Alone?, for example, is an amped-up, no-nonsense take on Spacemen 3’s driving narcotic noise.