Travis Duo – ‘Hypnogogia’ [Album Review]

Ah, the 1990s, those halcyon anything-goes days of experimental rock fleshing out the gaps between pop, rock, alternative, punk, hip-hop, metal and well, practically anything you can think of. This was the era that gave us Les Claypool’s madcap Primus, or Mike Patton’s unquantifiable Faith No More – but it also gave us one of the latter’s earlier outings – that of Mr. Bungle. Alongside Patton, founding member Trevor Dunn took a garage death metal cover band to new heights of unconventionality and now, in 2021, he is back. Teaming up with ethno-jazz fanatic Jarvis Earnshaw, the Travis Duo as they call themselves craft some suitably trippy vibes on Hypnagogia, releasing on December 10th. Lashings of sitar and jazz improvisations characterize this soundtrack to the lucid dreaming experience, ...

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