If you’re going to be a one trick pony, you’d better make it a pretty good one. It is just as well, therefore, that Moon Duo managed just that.

Let’s not get carried away though – this was still fairly rudimentary stuff. Each song essentially consisted of a two or three note fuzz heavy riff by guitarist Ripley Johnson who also provided fairly incoherent vocals, backed by the repetitive keyboard stabs of Sanae Yamada. Johnson would then step back and play a guitar solo over the same pounding rhythm.

And on one level, it could be argued that was pretty much it.

However, in person the primal and almost hypnotic drones offered as much a physical experience as one of musical enlightenment. It was hard to stop your head from nodding to their ceaseless psychedelia.

If ZZ Top ever disappear into the desert, freak out and make a psych record, it will probably sound like this. And that has nothing to do with Johnson’s equally impressive chest-length grey beard.

While Moon Duo didn’t quite outstay their welcome, nearly an hour’s worth of their pulsating fuzz felt like enough. Any more really would have required a second trick from the box.

Andy Robbins