Beautify Junkyards – Cosmorama

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Charming Broadcast-adjacent psych-pop from Portuguese band Beautify Junkyards. Acid folk has rarely sounded so jangly and pristine – perfect lockdown escapism, trust us on this one.

There’s something magical about Brazilian psych-pop – it inhabits that ethereal space between the faeries-n-goblins prog of the Canterbury set and the melancholy brilliance of Brazilian vocal music. Somehow, Portuguese band Beautify Junkyards manage to touch that same mythical space on their fourth album “Cosmorama”, an alchemical concoction that takes the heart of Broadcast and simmers it with the bones of Os Mutantes. The resulting psychedelic soup is just a joy to swim in as the band trade vocals and dip between acoustic and electronic instrumentation.

“Cosmorama” sounds at times like the soundtrack to a long-lost TV documentary series, but Beautify Junkyards aren’t entirely wedged in the past – their particular brand of whimsical melancholy sounds strangely current. The kind of psychedelic pop that Broadcast made their calling card has been a touchstone for plenty of contemporary bands, and Beautify Junkyards have found a way to make that more gauzy somehow – a dream pop album for a psychedelic love-in.