Nyns Eus Denvydth Bys Trest is the latest album by Cornish psyche monsters Hantehir the title translates from Cornish into English as There Is No-one To Trust a title that's a reflection of the last two years we have lived through, as well as the mess of the last 20 years as the UK and world has been run by less than inspiring regimes.
The album opens with Always On a straight ahead psyche rocker with some howling sax and cool rattling drums that leave us in no doubt that singer Ben Harris is indeed Always On and is always trying to make sure he doesn't slip into mediocrity and the feedbacking noise outro makes sure you know this album will be anything but mediocre.
Don't Go opens rather gently as if they are sitting looking at a corn field or something similarly bucolic as they start to ask who if anyone there is left to believe in, and how on earth do you know what to believe, it builds into a questioning song that's hoping to find a better way of doing things. This song wouldn't sound out of place on Radio 6's daytime playlist.
Hollow builds from an acoustic guitar and strings and as all sorts of other elements come in the story of how Ben is a haunted man unfolds with plenty of musical and lyrical twists and turns.
Diseghoryon is the first Cornish language song and it translates as Wiper or Windscreen Wiper, but it doesn't sound too rain spattered, being more of a gentle ruminative song with all sorts of effects building around the vocals. The song has a good distorted middle part that's like you're at the centre of a storm and then emerge into something else entirely through the ambient glow.
Lovelight is a gloriously pretty psyche pop song with Mike Hewitt's sax and Lou Macchi's violins driving it along, it takes a few odd turns as you'd hope, but the way all the noises and sound effects work to make an entire universe for the story to unfold no matter what your enmeshed in a musical cocoon.
Honey Bees is a song about my personal political views for the last 25 years or so, that you have to stop voting for the same two political parties if you want change. The only way to break the system is to vote them all out and vote in people who want electoral reform and political reform. They are angry and so should everyone else who knows, we deserve to have politicians up to the task, if we want to live in the nice peaceful cooperative place that works to make the planet and country working for everyone. Yes the song inspires me to rant, listen and rant too.
Slug Song is slow and reflective and asking for once to be told the truth by the people who should always tell the truth yet never do, a lovely laid back folk song of meaning and intent for our current malaise.
Find My Common Ground is proggy folk asking for the voice of the majority, for a peaceful better future, where we work together to heal the planet, make sure we can all eat, have somewhere decent to live, changing to a post oil planet is possible. They have a good take on the disaster we have to prevent, this needs a good listen.
Yeah is a wild ride delivering the core message I Am The Same As You, this is a Psych folk storm of noise and ideas a maelstrom as the folk dancing for a connected and collaborative future and the ability to be, this needs to be heard at stupendous volume, far louder than I can play it here.
Waiting For Bertie is semi comedown, or the afterglow of the changing nature of relationships and friendships over psyche fried pop climax.
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