CARLTON MELTON - Reason Beings CARLTON MELTON

Time to turn on and turn it up, there's a brand new Carlton Melton in the offing. It's been a good couple of years since the West Coast space-psych travellers have dropped new music.

“Phantomize beyond the window, into the portal, the panes of eternal returns, wooden spirals, roots into the realms of everything and nothing, the reason beings.”

With Anthony Taibi fully ensconced in the metaphorical Melton Dome, this four-piece is ready to soar, going deeper and wider into the psych psyche than on previous recordings, now fully recording live with drums, bass, guitars and keys. Recorded at 3D Light in Freshwater, California by Anthony Taibi in 2025, and mastered by the inimitable John McBain in 2026.

We have a single LP of 40-plus minutes spanning four tracks that have textures, waves and patterns to lull you into some fever dream of motorik psych. Touchstones like Träd, Gräs Och Stenar, Kandodo, Guru Guru, Eno & Fripp, Birds of Maya and Parson Sound come into view.

There are moments of gentle ambience bordered by speaker-shredding guitar soloing, whole passages of Krautrock-inspired jams that have form and focus. You blink and your life flashes before you, the record ends, and you want more.

Carlton Melton masterfully blend hypnotic, long-form psychedelic jams with drone and Krautrock influences.

Band: Rich Millman, Andy Duvall, Clint Golden, Anthony Taibi

Announced to celebrate the summer solstice, released on the autumn equinox, with a full UK tour to boot.

Come fly / fry with us…