The new album from The Sufi's was the thing that attracted me most listening at my computer at work yesterday. Their third in all and released a couple of months ago it's a decidedly odd object, but a highly alluring one at the same time which drew me in the longer it played.
The Sufis are an Anglo-Indian / American duo who have been releasing records since 2012 but this comes after a few years away. Once on Cornershop's label Ample Play, comparisons between the bands are appropriate because they both favour the funky and make music originally rooted in the Sixties.The first Sufis album seemed largely guided by The Byrds and 1967 Psychedelia..
Perhaps in the intervening years they've fast forwarded to 1972 as I was minded here of Nilsson, George Harrison and seventies Radio 1 daytime radio in addition to The Zombies, Velvet Underground and Soundtrack music. That point in time when Rock Music stopped being Psychedelic or Bluesy and started to turn slinky and jazzy. It has picture of a nun smoking a cigarette on a beach on its album sleeve and in many respects the record is as impenetrable as that image.
But anyhow I really liked it. Reminiscent of recent albums from MGMT and Foxygen in the way it channels the past but to my tastes better than either.
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