Carlton Melton – Pass It On

Recorded inside a Geodesic Dome off the coast of Northern California, Pass It On is an album of live, improvised, experimental, psychedelic jams. If that last sentence isn’t enough to put you off then you should know that the album opens with a seven and a half minute wig-out cover of Pink Floyd’s When You’re In. Still interested? You must have way too much time on your hands.

Carlton Melton have made a moody, trippy record that would make for a decent soundtrack to one’s stoned adolescent years. However the eight songs on offer never quite reach the highs that they roll for. Found Children is the most likeable, delicately rumbling along in a krautrock fever, going nowhere fast – akin to The Dandy Warhols' drawn-out epics on their first two records. However, rigor mortis ultimately sets in as the album meanders beyond the coma-inducing. [Alan Souter]