It’s been a busy year for Emeralds, what with the release of their acclaimed Does It Look Like I’m Here? LP on Editions Mego, a number of reissues and a solo album from guitarist Mark McGuire.

The latest extra-curricular offering from the Ohio band is by John Elliott in collaboration with Charles Szerzen and Sandra Serio: a self-titled album from their Colored Mushroom and The Medicine Rocks project.

More stimulating than McGuire’s fine but self-absorbed Living With Yourself (released last month on Mego), it comes courtesy of Emeralds’ own Wagon imprint and is available on coloured vinyl, clad in suitably psilocybic artwork and limited to 420 copies. What you get in terms of music are seven dense, unashamedly psychedelic synthesizer workouts, punctuated with Serio’s minimal wave-style drum machine pattering. It’s essential listening for fans of vintage German kosmische and the more recent analogue excursions of Oneohtrix Point Never, Delia & Gavin and of course Emeralds themselves.

Emeralds are heading to Europe for a live tour this month, stopping off at London’s CAMP on October 17 and culminating in a slot at the Unsound festival in Poland on October 23. For a full list of dates, visit Wagon’s site here.

Tracklist:
A1. Follow The Path
A2. Out Of Luck
A3. Blood Puddles/Sore Subject
A4. Blotter Accident
B1. Sea Channels
B2. Child-like Happiness
B3. The Last Chapter (Make Up An Ending)