Feels like a long time since Toronto’s Comet Control made their self-titled debut (review here) on Tee Pee Records, but it was only two years ago. Perhaps it’s my own impatience for a follow-up to that album’s alternatingly laid back and driving heavy psychedelia that makes it seem longer. That same impatience has me very much anticipating the June 24 arrival of the band’s second outing, Center of the Maze, also on Tee Pee. Fingers crossed the play between shoegazing sprawl and rhythmic propulsion is still in check, but something tells me wherever this one goes, it’s going to be a pleasure to stow away for the trip. And by that I mean I can’t wait to hear it.

The PR wire brings the particulars of the peculiars:

COMET CONTROL to Release New Album ‘Center of the Maze’ June 24

Psych Rock Vets Take to the Skies on Shining Sophomore LP

Toronto space rock cosmonauts COMET CONTROL will re-enter the atmosphere on June 24 with their stargazed sophomore album, Center Of The Maze (Tee Pee Records). The band features vocalist / guitarist Chad Ross and guitarist Andrew Moszynski, each formerly of heavy psych champions QUEST FOR FIRE and garage rockers THE DEADLY SNAKES. The powerhouse musicians are joined in COMET CONTROL by Nicole Howell (bass), Jay Anderson (drums) and Christopher Sandes (keys). Engineered by Josh Korody (Fucked Up, Moon King) at Candle Recording, and mastered by Carl Saff (Sweet Apple, Earthless), Center of the Maze is the follow-up to COMET CONTROL’s 2014 self-titled debut.

Flooded with swirling synths, ghostly vocals and fuzz-bomb guitars that burst into flames in electrifyingly airborne ways, Center Of The Maze effortlessly merges the ethereal and the terrestrial. The album is a 43-minute collection of blinding explosions and brilliant fade-outs. Overdriven riffs reign supreme and songs build with a mantra-like power before collapsing into majestic dreaminess. Like watching a rocket take off at close range, the sound of COMET CONTROL is both exhilarating and mesmerizing, propelled into orbit by unwavering melody and unhinged creativity.

Ross comments, “‘Center of the Maze’ is about feeling comfortable getting lost.”

Track listing:
1.) Dig Out Your Head
2.) Darkness Moves
3.) Silver Spade
4.) The Hive
5.) Criminal Mystic
6.) Golden Rule
7.) Sick in Space
8.) Artificial Light

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Comet Control, “Blast Magic”

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