Sons Of Zöku - Sleepless (2020)

Sons Of Zöku are an Adelaide-based hybrid tribe of Portuguese-born Ricardo Da Silva and Ica Quintela, and Australian-born Jordan Buck, Oscar Ellery, and Eddie Hannemann, who've been around since about 2018. By 2019 they'd slimmed down to a trio of Da Silva, Quintela and Buckm and released a couple of singles and an EP. Their music is a kaleidoscopic onslaught of psych-rock, thunderous drums, seductive grooves, colossal riffs, wailing guitars and vocals, but tempered by rich and alluring melodies, eastern touches and the beauty of pastoral folk too. They've have found a perfect balance between thunderous noise and subtle sweetness, delivering modern psych-rock that harks back to Revolver-era Beatles and the radiant euphoria of Screamadelica. The nine tracks on this album are their total recordings released to date, but the band are tempting us by letting slip that they actually recorded thirteen songs for their EP, of which only five were included, so we can be sure that there is more great music to come from this exciting new band. 

Track listing

01 Monk And The Serpent
02 Mauvaise Foi
03 Big Rich Man
04 In Furs
05 Wild Eyes
06 Sleepless
07 Dead Poets
08 Luz
09 Paralysed