The Blinders - The Electric Kool-Aid (Part 1)

Now this is more like it.

After a hugely promising start to their career with the astute, righteous and literary Columbia, The Blinders lost some momentum through a combination of the pandemic and an inferior (but by no means bad) second album in Fantasies Of A Stay At Home Psychopath.

With a fresh new line-up (moving from a three-piece to a five), the Doncaster band have renewed vigour.

The Blinders have thus far operated in their own world, and this EP starts in the same vein; a fading hiss opens the title-track, as if the listener has already missed something.

The band don’t care though, and launch into a succinct piece of clattering garage-psychedelia, and a mantra-esque delivery of the title (as verse) reassures that Tom Hayward is still observing human behaviour from afar, with cynicism. The Kool-Aid is seemingly addictive as the political and societal chaos continues unabated, even after more than half a decade.

https://www.live4ever.uk.com/2022/01/review-the-blinders-electric-kool-ep/