Arriving a scant four months after their last full-length,
Don't Get Lost
finds
Brian Jonestown Massacre
trekking ever further afield into the psych wilderness. Since launching his Cobra Studio in Berlin, bandleader
Anton Newcombe
has turned his operation into a bursting warehouse of sound, opening the floodgates to deliver a torrent of new music over the early 2010s. Bearing the name of a song from 2016's
Third World Pyramid
, the 14-track
offers a pretty wide cross-section of
BJM
's various modes, with a particular emphasis on electronic experimentations. As on many of their 2010s records, a handful of guests can be heard scattered throughout the proceedings like singers
Tess Parks
,
Tim Burgess
, and
Shaun Rivers
as well as Norwegian musician
Emil Nikolaison
(
Serena Maneesh
) and British saxophonist
Pete Fraser
. Immediately challenging listeners,
opens with "Open Minds Now Close," an eight-minute, droning Kraut-psych jam that hangs out in the same key for its duration. Of the more electronic-oriented material, the instrumental "Charmed I'm Sure" offers a pleasantly dreamy ambient respite while "Acid 2 Me Is No Worse Than War" thumps along brightly with its programmed beats and oddly engaging cacophony of swirling synths and unintelligible vocals. The lengthy, trance-like "One Slow Breath" is meandering and quite pretty at times, with distant spoken word vocals scattered throughout. ~ Timothy Monger