The Alchemysts are Matt Love (drums, percussion), Jon Guard (bass guitar, vocals) and Paul Simmons (guitar, vocals, harmonica). The band was formed in 1989 from the ashes of "The Fur Coats" and hail from the south-west of England. They have played their own particular brand of psychedelic garage punk up and down the UK, writing and recording their own material throughout. Their music consists of whatever they feel like playing at the time - melodic power pop, acid fried folk, psychedelic feedback symphonies, and even stuff with guitar solos. The Alchemysts appeared on an EP distributed with the highly-regarded Ptolemaic fanzine in 1992, and received good reviews for an early album length debut tape. They recorded an album called "One-eyed Again" for the Behemoth label around the same time, which was endlessly delayed and finally came out in 1996. The band also appeared on Magic Eye's recent Pearls Before Swine tribute LP "For the Dead in Space", contributing a spirited version of Tom Rapp's "Drop Out!".

"Over and Out" is all newly recorded material, commissioned after we saw the band's blistering set at the Terrastock festival in Providence, RI in April. It takes up where "One-eyed Again" left off, mining all their fine influences from 13th Floor Elevators, Blue Cheer and The Pink Fairies to more recent trippers like Thin White Rope, the Rain Parade and The Scientists. From the opening sitar-and-backwards-guitar prowler "Forget About It" to the climactic 20 minute journey of the closing triumvirate of "Yesterday it was a Secret/25th of July/A Surreal Meal", "Over and Out" is a feast of bone-crunching power-trio psych dynamics. Form a stoned circle…