It takes all of the first 80 seconds of Bristol trio Thought Forms second album, Ghost Mountain, to realise that this is a group who have moved on substantially from their debut of three years ago. Indeed, if their self-titled debut in 2009 was about finding the dynamic limits of their atmospheric sound, gently prodding and probing varying elements, then the huge great slab of guitar that greets you instantly on their follow-up roars with the confidence of a band who've found their level from which to fully explore their creative expression.
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Presumably, Thought Forms were as surprised as the rest of us to learn that a new My Bloody Valentine album was to be released in the same month as Ghost Mountain.

The trio from the south-west of England have racked up nearly four years between their self-titled debut and this follow-up – a rather mundane gestation compared to the 21-and-a-bit My Bloody Valentine left between Loveless and m b v.

Thought Forms have also titled one of these eight songs Only Hollow, a self-admitted nod to Only Shallow from Loveless. The new My Bloody Valentine album has a track called only tomorrow. Shoegaze indie icons can be so cruel…

Only Hollow, as it happens, takes as many cues from garage rock and Gish-era Smashing Pumpkins as Kevin Shields’ mob. This, too, scarcely gives a clue as to what this eclectic and often disarmingly heavy opus offers.

Landing could be one of the meatier servings by Japan’s Boris, explosively opening the album by marrying depth-charge sludge guitar to near-soothing psychedelic effects.

Thought Forms’ use of low end is frequently (no pun intended) very satisfying: if not riffs, then the hypnotic droning backdrop to Burn Me Clean, at 13 minutes long easily Ghost Mountain’s epic.

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