Nightcap At Wits' End - 2020 US Beyond Beyond Is Beyond label 12-track LP - Black Vinyl

4rth of 5th album by New Jersey-based jammy, cosmic psych rocker... the duality here runs deep: almost 50 minutes of intricately arranged composition and kinetic guitar chorales christened in tribute to both a familiar place of refuge and that ragged state of mind beyond all common sense, when you keep on going even after you've run out of rope and road.

"The music itself is a double image: one album-length side of songs that advance the crisp momentum and tangled jangle of early-2019's Natural Facts; and a second half that extends the medley action on Cosmic Cash with the long reach of One Step Behind in a suite of dynamic writing and bonded, instrumental charge, connected by live-to-tape jams ' the band's first time exercising that second-nature-on-stage in a studio. This album has arrived as if absolutely destined for right now. Raise a glass at your wit's end, and let the music blow away the night".... thats what the label writes... here's a more direct describtion by Allmusics Fred Thomas: After a lively start, the album shifts into mellower territory with the drifty "Fire of the Now." "Painting a Vision That Carries" is made up of delicate vocal harmonies and a dynamic structure that goes from controlled acoustic segments to blasting verses and back. As this song burns on into a vamping jam, the band's Dead-like tendencies come to the surface with noodling guitar leads and dazzling group interplay. The second half of Nightcap at Wits' End becomes a string of woozy and meandering pieces that blur into one another in clouds of hazy jamming. Themes resurface as the band shuffles through meditative riffing on "Crown of Thought," Krautrock-y interludes, and the blissfully droning Popol Vuh-esque "A Reckoning." 

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1    Gliding Through    
2    Wasted Time    
3    Altered Place    
4    Fire Of The Now    
5    Painting A Vision That Carries    

Side 2:
1    One At A Time    
2    (Our Life Could Be Your Van)    
3    Crown Of Thought    
4    (Sound Controls Time)    
5    A Reckoning    
6    (Litmus)    
7    Shadow