During the chorus to ‘Follow Me Down’, there is a moment that sums up everything Golden Animals are getting at.

The two of them, Tommy Eisner and Linda Beecroft, both breathily sing together an ecstatic ‘wow’, evoking the most tripped-out hippie sound the 60s could muster.
This is a record that has no business in the twenty-first century, so much does it have the stamp of Jefferson Airplane, The Doors and The Grateful Dead. The thing is though, Golden Animals are not aping those bands.

The reason they have arrived at this sound is that they seeped themselves in delta blues from the early twentieth century, just like those bands did, and came to the same conclusions from its influence. Therefore they are not irritating 60s copyists, more rock scholars. There is a plenty of reverb, a lot of slide guitar and the marching-band drumming that defined The Airplane, while Eisner (whose deep voice echoes fat Jim Morrison) and Beecroft prove themselves songwriters worthy of the tradition they uphold.

Barnaby Smith