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An experiment: Park a car in the blazing heat of the Nevada desert. Leave vinyl copies of Mercury Rev albums and every record ever produced by Dave Fridmann on the dashboard. Top the pile with Elliot Smith's X/O and a couple of Lemon Jelly and Death In Vegas singles. Leave, and allow to bake for forty days and forty nights. Then, ignoring common scientific laws, hammer the messy heap into a brand new record and play the result while cruising through the surreal desert evening.
Voila. Morning Wonder. A catchy psychedelic chimera courtesy of part-Texan, part-Mancunian tinkerers The Earlies.
With its satisfying synth and drum loops and strange off-kilter vocals (reminiscent of Messrs Donahue and Coyne), Morning Wonder is a quirky mishmash of weirdness and funky beats. Lie back and listen through sofa-sized headphones and enjoy the electro-riffs and occasional Day of the Triffids background effects. Just don't think too hard about the recurring lyric: "Mother Mary and the Morning Wonder take me home, take me home". It's the glorious product of fried brains.
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