Lucky Bishops

The Lucky Bishops of Dorset, Britain play ambitious rock similar to 70s experts like Todd Rundgren. The band’s backwards-glancing audio mixes British psychedelia, driving rock and roll, power pop and prog to get a mellow, mind-bending encounter. The group was shaped in the past due 90s by bassist, pianist and guitarist Alan Strawbridge, drummer Luke Adams, multi-instrumentalist Tom Hughes and guitarist Affluent Murphy. Their self-titled debut, released in 1999 on Rubric in america and Woronzow in britain, grasped at Beatles melodies and Seaside Young boys harmonies, garnering the music group comparisons to some other band of psychedelic revivalists, XTC. The Lucky Bishops after that holed up within their small Dorset thatched cottage – apparently in constant natural reverie – to record Grimstone, called for the united states village that influenced the bucolic psych-pop. Sadly, the cottage dropped down through the springtime storms as well as the members from the Lucky Bishops had been forced to go to Dorchester. The record, though, premiered in 2002 and additional expands the band’s expansive 70s prog sound.