Mandrake Handshake

Earth Sized Worlds


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Dinked : Transparent Silver Glitter Colour 2LP / Alternate Artwork Gatefold Sleeve / 2 x A4 Double-Sided Art Prints by Hannah Woollam / Hand-Numbered Edition / Hand Drawn Band Image Stickers by Jake Kavanagh / Limited Pressing of 500

2LP : Standard Black Vinyl

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The concept tying together every last note and lyric of ‘Earth-Sized Worlds’ - the debut album from the London/Oxford self-dubbed ‘Flowerkraut’ collective Mandrake Handshake - is an awfully simple one: ‘Welcome to Space Beach’. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi-limbed organism - varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members - it’s an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against the warm nostalgias of home. Full of surprise, leftfield turns and closeted experimentations, tape-soaked Brazilian Sambas morphs into Kosmische Kraturock crusades, and shimmering avant-pop electronics melt into sweetened psychedelic bliss… “Welcome to the Spacebeach - the new era of the Mandrake. Here, where the sea joins the sky, and where the trees touch the stars and where we will have you stay a while”.

With news of their biggest UK headline show to date at London’s No90 (Hackney Wick) on February 28th next year, Mandrake Handshake are certainly firing on all cylinders as their debut album release draws ever closer. Having already showcased lead singles ‘Charlie’s Comet’, ‘King Cnut’ and ‘The Change And The Changing’ as they experiment further with their eccentric brand of ‘Flowerkraut’: a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia.

Tracklist

Side A
Time Goes Up
Hypsersonic Super-Asterid 

Side B
Charlie’s Comet
The Change and the Changing
Lorenzo’s Desk

Side C
King Cnut
Barranmode

Side D
Find the Tree and Dig (Deep)!
Earth Sized Worlds

Soundwave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOFEGhNRGg