Kinnie The Explorer -‘Kinnie The Explorer.’ (Alcohol Records)

Bournemouth’s Kinnie The Explorer exist in an interesting point. The influences here are primarily psychedelic (rather than psychedelica, trust me, there IS a difference), meeting a point where shoegazing and prog-rock all meet and collide.

Still with me? The above might sound rather hard to digest, but the sound that KTE produce is not. Over the course of their ten track debut album, the overall effect is actually rather gentle. I don’t know what they’re like live-but on record the feeling is of a band who are avant-rock, but not in the way that that normally suggests raw-as garage punk.

And the effect is a rather pleasant, dreamy one. A few listens to this record later, this has actually rather grown on me. It’s cleancut in sound -but that shouldn’t be taken as meaning that they are without any edge… an interesting listen and a challenge of your expectations.

***1/2

Kinnie The Explorer is out now on Alcohol Records.