First Listen is the part of Musos' Guide where we tempt you in with lesser played tracks from the recent past or this very minute. Enjoy.

Live Dates:-

27th May London Calling Festival, Amsterdam NL

29th May Trix Club, Antwerp  BL

30th May La Gaite Lyrique, Paris FR

31st May Les Docks, Lausanne CH

1st June L’Epicerie Moderne, Lyon FR

3rd June Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona SP

5th June Mascotte, Zurich CH

6th June Magnolia, Milan IT

7th June Covo Club, Bologna IT

9th June Primavera Sound Festival, Porto PT

11th June This Is Not A Love Song Festival, Nimes FR

13th June Barby, Tel Aviv IL

15th June Concorde 2, Brighton UK

16th June The O2 Forum, London UK

17th June Stylus, Leeds UK

19th June The Art School, Glasgow UK

20th June Gorilla, Manchester UK

21st June Thekla, Bristol UK

31st Aug - 3rd Sept End Of The Road Festival, Dorset UK

Followers of Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin will be familiar with the contributions Charles Mootheart has made to a number of their records, not least on the two Fuzz albums with Segall, as well as on tour.

As CFM Mootheart has stepped out on his own with debut solo album Dichotomy Desaturated, a definite grower if ever there was one. Fans of the aforementioned big guns will have a preconceived notion of what to expect from the ten songs herein and in the main you'll get what you expect.

Which isn't to say that this is Segall-/Cronin-lite. Mooseheart's vocals, for one thing, sound very much like his own, rather than anyone he may be influenced by in any way. For another thing his guitar playing is rather more challenging than on those records in which he's participated to back up others.  

Opening track 'Dichotomy' begins things slowly but from 'Pinch The Dream' onwards we're in a world of whammy bar use, pastoral passages, solid riffing and serious rocking out which deserves the full use of the volume on whatever device you're playing the thing on.

Repeated listens deliver new favourite elements. I'll admit to initially being underwhelmed by my first listen but, you go away, let a couple of days pass and then come back to it and things change for the better. Even groovy sixth track 'Voyeurs' can be seen in a new light (think of a less doomy, slow Black Sabbath number).

Mootheart has a great legacy already as a sidekick and band member & he can now deservedly add to that with Dichotomy Desaturated as a performer in his own right. As CFM he's successfully distilled his influences and collaborations into a body of work wholly his own and as exciting as the best debut albums should be.

Dichotomy Desaturated is available from amazon & iTunes.