Ozric Tentacles - Become The Other

The 1995 album remastered by Ed Wynne in 2020 and released on vinyl for the very first time one of the most influential bands to emerge from the uk’s festival scene, the ozrics layer ambient and ethereal landscapes with freeform dub trips, incredible rave grooves and psychedelic progressive rock.

It’s an open exploration of music and the soul. the band’s first release after merv pepler and joie hinton left to form eat static, ‘become the other’ still possesses the cool, psychedelic spare rock of its predecessors. with hints of techno, psybient and world music, the album kicks off with some fine guitar and bass on ‘cat dna’, followed by the atmospherics of ‘ahu belahu’ and ‘ghedengi’. ‘wob glass’ is all synthy techno whilst ‘neurochasm’ is a cool trippy rock track and so very ozrics. the title track visits reggae with lengthy finishers ‘vibuthi’ and ‘plurnstyle’ both smorgasbords of classic ozrics sounds.