Having this year unexpectedly reformed At The Drive-In for reasons of an exclusively financial nature and ahead of the arrival of The Mars Volta's latest LP next week, he of murky cotton candied hair or Cedric Bixler-Zavala is to pop out another release this side of summer. Under the guise of
Anywhere, Cedric can more precisely be charted everywhere contemporarily and he here joins up with Christian Eric Beaulieu of modest
Liquid Indian and tripped-out Triclops! fame, Mike Watt of rather more substantial celebrity given his involvement with both Iggy and D. Boon's Minutemen, and guest vocalist Rachel Fannan, once of dazed Californian psych outfit Sleepy Sun. The band's eponymous track, following on from infuriatingly limited 7" releases of fellow album cuts Pyramid Mirrors and Infrared Moses (released via
Valley King Records) offers a preliminary gawp into the eponymous full-length that's to be released on 12" 'aqua coloured vinyl' as a limited run of 500 for
Record Store Day (April 21st) via
ATP Recordings. This is to be followed up by a full release come May 14th although to dwell in the here and now, Anywhere lifted off of Anywhere's Anywhere is a musty, thick fug of hash hallucination, Beaulieu's transporting acoustic amblings as Liquid Indian here fringed with Arabian arrangements, Bixler's sporadic rhythms, and hazy vocal intrusions evocative of those squelched up from Thom Yorke's diaphragm were they broadcast down from some galactic realm as the Radiohead man squinted out over kaleidoscopic nebulae splayed across the sky like dayglo sherbet. Although for the meantime concealed in some locked and keyed cranny of the interwebs, the debut full-length is already sounding exquisitely solar.
