Independent but stronger together.
Independent but stronger together.
The concept tying together every last note and lyric of ‘Earth-Sized Worlds’ - the debut album from the London/Oxford self-dubbed ‘Flowerkraut’ collective Mandrake Handshake - is an awfully simple one: ‘Welcome to Space Beach’…
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+ Dinked Edition 324
+ 21st February 2025
+ Tip Top Recordings
+ Transparent silver glitter colour 2LP *
+ Alternate artwork gatefold sleeve *
+ 2 x A4 double-sided art prints by Hannah Woollam *
+ Hand-numbered edition *
+ Hand drawn band image stickers by Jake Kavanagh
+ Limited pressing of 500 *
* EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi-limbed organism - varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members - it’s an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against the warm nostalgias of home. Full of surprise, leftfield turns and closeted experimentations, tape-soaked Brazilian Sambas morphs into Kosmische Kraturock crusades, and shimmering avant-pop electronics melt into sweetened psychedelic bliss… “Welcome to the Spacebeach - the new era of the Mandrake. Here, where the sea joins the sky, and where the trees touch the stars and where we will have you stay a while”.