9.3
/Trance rock, Post-psychedelic electronica, Space rock, Improvised music, Drone rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Krautrock/
Comment: undoubtedly Väljasõit Rohelisse (i.e, drive out to natural environment in a clumsy translation) is one of those fewest spaced-out combos from Estonia whose concept is expressive and contemplative simultaneously. However, the first time I met the group at Schilling, an independent outdoor festival in Kilingi Nõmme, Viljandimaa, Estonia. Their live session was embedded in thick smoke created by particular devices on the stage and covered up with fluorescent green light. By listening to VR`s 7-track album you can detect which way perky and light-hearted moods are merged with exhausting progressions and brooding outlines in the middle of droning keyboard sounds, ragged drums and thudding bass lines, vagrant guitars, resonating sonic walls, and Lauri Tikerpe`s buried vocal murmur. More profoundly, it sounds somewhere in between Spacemen 3, Bardo Pond, and Joy Division, though, having its distinctive bucolic (Estonian) touch rather than pronouncing urban-related theme. (Hotwired) minimalistic psychedelia.