WHITE MANNA - Bleeding Eyes LP

Includes d/l code.

White Manna seem to live by that old maxim of not fixing anything that ain’t broke. The same imperatives that drove their self-titled debut of 2012 – rampaging space rock, locked riffs, overdriven guitars – have now sustained the quintet over many albums. Yet this doesn’t mean they’re stuck for ideas. Rather, their adherence to the intangible mysteries of fuzz-heavy psychedelia feels like a statement of faith, the band exploring a rich niche of music with an ambitious fervour that borders on the devotional.

Bleeding Eyes, their sixth outing, is the kind of howling mindf#@k that aligns them to Carlton Melton and The Black Angels.