Has anybody else tried this?

It's a real weirdo. Two of the main players come from The Herbaliser which is a downtempo Hip Hop kind of outfit whose last album, Something Wicked.. bored the tits off me and was resold in a heartbeat. Odyssey is so different that it's disorientating. Perhaps the only thing that gives a clue to their background is that occasionally a rather thin idea is stretched out beyond breaking point for the sake of the groove.

So it's guitars then dude, acoustic, electric even some lubricious slide that wouldn't sound amiss on a Stones'y honk. Cinematic strings, Floydian/Beatlesian melodies and a vibe that recalls the most blissed out moments of Primal Screams - Screamadelica.

There's not a new idea to be had on the entire disc but as I type this, watching a thin winter rain through the window, it's a cruisy summer evening inside and that's a GOOD thing!

I can't find many reviews at all but there's this on AMG..

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p...=Ajsrc284l05na

Strange but good then.

Chris.