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The Laughing Windows
12+ albums
experimentalPsychedelic Rockpsychedelickrautrockspace rock
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The Laughing Windows began as a london-based duo of luke insect and rob polak. organically grown through a love of kraut-rock and english-based psychedelia, dfa electronic pulses and italian horror films - their secret origins began after a heavy night of drinking and drugging that led to create the laughing windows; an almost accidental iconic english beast that dwells in the same shadows of super furry animals, ex-beta band members the aliens and melodic pop of the magic numbers all shot through with ken loach film samples of realistic 60s london that underscore a gritty realism through their spectral glare. Now a three piece, luke insect, joe hollick (wolf people) and mike blackwell have subtly drawn from a host of eclectic voices to shape his own highly distinctive sound. like the best psyche folk, it is music that exudes a sense of bizarre possibility; a world in which ken loach meets damo suzuki, where the beta band collide with dario argento. the results are irresistibly fascinating. as the 'piper at the gates of dawn' unearthliness of this single attests, there is certainly a strong vein of english psychedelia in the laughing windows. luke insect's parents were friends of syd barrett in the cambridge days and later london freak out days when musicians were searching the nation's musical past for surreal characters and images. the laughing windows create music that registers strongly on a psychological level. they are reaching for images of a lost england, be it in g
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