Eyes of the Amaryllis - Perceptible to Everyone

East coast four/five piece, Eyes of the Amaryllis, return to Horn of Plenty for a second outing of lysergic and mucilaginous half-world expulsions. Like with member Jesse Dewlow's People Skills project, there's the sense that these songs aren't so much written as summoned from the void, ghostly aberrations of muddled form, hard to get a grasp of even after multiple listens. Unlike People Skills, Perceptible to Everyone is a lot less conventional of form (which is saying something). Is this improv or is it composition? The A and the B side seem to split themselves between the two approaches, and the ambiguity, i would suggest, is entirely intentional. Still, if the form is a little vague, then the feeling is a good deal clearer - the alien unknown; the dream of the broken thing. It's a fair bit more melodic than you might imagine, too, fragments of sing-song incantation emerging from the druggy fog before swiftly disappearing again, reminding me for the most part of a number of Helen Johnstone releated projects: think Entlang's The Four Sisters, Garbage and the Flowers' Stoned Rehearsal or the incredible Dress lathe Fordamning Arkiv reissued last year (heads up: we still have copies, do not miss it). Eyes of the Amaryllis remain a spooky proposition, but it's the kind of haunting that encourages repeated encounters. .