THE MYSTERY LIGHTS - PURGATORY

4.0 out of 5.0 stars4.0 The Mystery Lights return with an eclectic pick ‘n’ mix of lysergic and chaotic garage that rises to dizzying heights on perhaps their best album to date. Throughout the album’s twelve tracks, there are threads that pull at your subconscious, pick at the brain stem of memory. Is that a Bo Diddley Who Do You Love?-inspired melody that I hear on the opening track and recent single Mighty Fine All Mine? A haunting organ playing the protagonist on Together Lost, recalling Release Of An Oath-era Electric Prunes, a jovial occultism running beneath? Crashes and whips around a wonderful classic fuzz sound on Cerebral Crack, flute flourishes and cascading guitars that recall the very best of Love? The effect is hypnotic as you are swayed between past and present. LOUDER THA N WAR REVIEW