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In the blink of an eye a life can change. In the time it takes to hear an album by a band foraging their way carefully through the Californian minefield of abundant music, you are already finding your thoughts focused on making sure you get on a plane sometime soon, taking a trundle down any of the side streets of San Francisco and hoping that you will bump into a band member or two and clasping them firmly by the hand and without a second thought for so called British reserve; telling them that you love them so much that you want to re-start the psychedelic revolution with them.

For The Love Dimension, Create and Consume may have started out as an experiment but pin back the ears and listen, nothing else is needed to get through the early hours of the morning, nothing else to stoke up the fire for the day ahead than taking on board a set of songs that have come from absolutely nowhere and relishing the thought of spreading their name everywhere you go.

Create and Consume is a monster, a hybrid of almost anything good you care to put a name too. The infectious music never misses a beat and at times acts as a conduit for your own breathless imagination.

Whatever drove Jimmy Dias, Celeste Obomsawin, Devin Farney, Sonny Pearce and Tommy Anderson to take the thoughts of a city forever toying with nature and stir it until the soup was a tasty exhausting treat, you have to ask yourself if it is marketable and just why has the genre been touched in such a way for what seems an interminable age. Memories of Woodstock, of the crazy Summer of Love, of personal freedoms and experimentation and above all of a time when mistrust in Government was just at its flourishing start all come hovering into view and that view is magical.

Tracks such as Sure Get A Lot, Inner Eye Insight, the burning and attention grabbing, code like instruction of Down the 1010101, O Beautiful Girl and Have You Had Enough all make you feel as though you are crouching on the very edge of a precipice, scared to look over in case the void rushes up to meet you but knowing deep down that what will greet you will be the start of a new understanding and adoration for something brilliantly unique.

Create and Consume is a gift, it will leave you exhausted and the mind full of possibilities. Psychedelic grandeur that you will just want to devour!

Ian D. Hall