Mark Crozer: International Jetsetters

Fresh from travelling the globe as part of the reformed Jesus & Mary Chain, local guitarist Mark Crozer and former-Ride drummer Loz Colbert have formed their own band together, appropriately named International Jetsetters, and that’s not the only thing they’ve taken from their time spent with the brothers Reid. The two tracks here, `Inside Yourself’ and `Inside Out’ hark, wonderfully, back to that late-80s halcyon period of shimmering shoe-gazing noise and searing narcotic drone-pop, pretty, honey-dipped 60s melodies drenched in oceanic swells of guitar noise, Mark’s vocals stealing some of Jim Reid’s heads-down drawl even as they head cloud-wards.

`Inside Yourself’ hits a hypnotic groove from the off, Spacemen 3’s smack-addled psychedelic dream raining down punches while floating light as feathers over coruscating dreamscapes. `Inside Out’, meanwhile, glides along sunrays and over the rainbow where it finds a treasure pot of pure pop gold. It’s a glorious trip.