Limited edition of 450 copies on magenta colour vinyl. Black wax and CD also available.

The Warsaw quartet weaves densely packed compositions of swirling psychedelic-prog melody with enough metal and rock stylings to keep any bloodshot-eyed headbanger’s interest.

Not strictly an instrumental act, as subtle vocals do enter the fray on occasion, Weedpecker’s work has been consistently strong since their inception back in 2012. Five years after 2021’s IV: The Stream Of Forgotten Thoughts, we have now arrived at… well, V.

Guitarist, vocalist and mastermind Piotr Dobry intended this record to be a deeply personal affair, a reflection on the fleeting and fragile nature of reality itself. Additionally, it perhaps represents their most drastic sonic evolution to date.

Synthesizers have been brought to the forefront this time around, courtesy not only of Dobry but additionally from musicians Piotr Sadza and Tomasz Walczak. Indeed, there seems to have been something of a subtle synth renaissance/revival over the past ten years or so, with their contemporaries such as Elder and King Buffalo, as well as spacey death metal act Blood Incantation taking up the reigns of Goblin and Tangerine Dream’s ’80s territory.