After more than a decade drumming for Liverpool psychedelists the Coral, in 2009 Ian Skelly was struck down by a fever that led to him experiencing dreams and hallucinations. It inspired this solo debut, in which he filters guitars, flutes, mellotrons and sharp pop/folk songwriting through a psychedelic haze. Recorded on a vintage tape machine in the Coral's rehearsal space, much of Cut from a Star sounds as if it could have been blasted straight from the late 60s. The title track features the sort of lysergic-soaked melody beloved of the Move or Arthur Lee's Love. Nickel and Dime suggests Skelly bought a rail ticket at Liverpool Lime Street station and got off at Woodstock, while Caterpillar, ostensibly a song about a small crawling insect, enjoys a butterfly-like metamorphosis into a gentle but kaleidoscopic beauty. Skelly's lyrics about dreams within dreams and paper skies might sound as if they were inspired by wacky baccy rather than illness, but these tunes have a wistful, fantastical power. The Guardian.
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