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ARTIST
TITLE
Hermit's Grove
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BTR 062YLW-LP BTR 062YLW-LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
9/25/2026

Surfing on a sun-drenched wave of psychedelia comes Brighton's very own Wax Machine. Primarily recorded and mixed in a closet room directly above a mortuary, their self-produced album Hermit's Groove is a heady trip through progressive psychedelia, kitsch Italian library music and Brazilian tropicalia. Wax Machine is the project of Brazilian-born, Italian/English-raised Lau Ro, who takes a deep dive into their Brazilian heritage on this LP, taking inspiration from '60s tropicalia music and movement and the likes of Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, and Gal Costa. The album features a version of "Canto De Iemanja" from Vinicius De Moraes and Baden Powell's seminal 1966 Brazilian album Os Afro sambas. "Canto De Iemanja" is about the goddess of the sea Iemanja, a chant Lau has often found themselves singing to the sea in their hometown of Brighton. Album opener "Guardians of Eden" is carried in on a cloud of flutes and birdsong. The first half celebrates the light and beauty of this world, while the second half is a reflection on the shadow of our existence here. The three minute, psychedelic explosion of "Springtime" is a "meditation on the cycles of nature, the dance of duality, the swinging of the cosmic pendulum." Two EPs in 2018 preceded their debut album Earthsong of Silence in 2020, with Clash Magazine declaring that Wax Machine "occupy a space somewhere in the gaps where English psych-folk, sun drenched West Coast sounds, Brazilian Tropicália and spiritual jazz overlap."