It’s oftentimes bands that swear by the power of the riff that can make the best impressions, even if there isn’t much else happening in the music outside some damn good riffage. Classic psych-rock is something that is so ingrained into music as a whole that it’s hard to deny the impact that it’s had on many forms, yet there are few bands that are around today that can encapsulate that style with the justice that it rightfully deserves. But, it’s with bands like Dune Sea that we see it done spectacularly.

With such a simple but incredibly fitting cover for the music, there were plenty of signs going into this record about how much justice Dune Sea could be doing for the modern legacy of classic psych-rock, but I had my doubts. It’s been about four hours after my initial listen of “Moons of Uranus”, and with every minute since then being filled with the excellence that Dune Sea brings forth for the absolute entirety of the ten-track album I can safely say that this band has more than exceeded my expectations and delivered on such a scale that cannot be denied whatsoever. Each and every single one of these songs are worthy of being called some of the best callbacks to that original sound that can rarely be captured so exquisitely anymore, and it’s here that Dune Sea does it with such excellence that it’s almost shocking to witness. We’re constantly floating through the band’s cosmic realm of fuzzed-out guitars, ethereal vocals, rhythms that change the very color of the realms, and drums that clash to produce gorgeous beams of light to grace the void of space, but it’s when they’re all brought together that their talent soars to make “Moons of Uranus” something that must be heard by every fan of psych-rock that is worthy of their own oxygen usage. It’s a work that’s nigh on gripping once you let it take hold of you, and it’s once you get properly lost between the massive riffs between planets and supernovas that you find yourself falling ever deeper into the magnificence that Dune Sea has woven out of the colorless void.

This is an adventure through the ethereal realms like few others can provide in the vast expanse that psychedelic rock owns in today’s musical climate, but very few are able to bring that original sound back to life like what we’re given here from Dune Sea. It’s right from the very beginning that “Moons of Uranus” promises glory the likes of which is beyond intoxicating, and it’s with each proceeding song that Dune Sea delivers quality the likes of which should not be ignored.

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