The Higher Planes – ‘Run, Save Yourself’
Around this time last week, a feverish few members of the Far Out collective were coming down with a serious case of post-festival blues, and today’s featured unsigned Sunday band are prolonging the feeling, but no one’s sad around here, I promise.
In a bout of well-timed divine guidance, The Higher Planes, like prophets, dropped down to the Cosmosis festival of Psychedelia in Manchester with an important message to the project, and I perceived it as this: don’t forget your roots.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the majority in attendance can’t remember these cosmic-minded, blues-beaten troubadours playing despite being quite literally under their noses.
In no way could I blame them, for if it wasn’t the allure of mind-altering antics and terrific music acting as a beautiful smokescreen, then location also proved distracting.
The Higher Planes were nowhere near the main stages, donned by the likes of Warlocks, KVB, and Cosmic Dead on this occasion. In fact, quite the contrary, they were more like a smoking area disguised and rebranded by the skilled quirks of the musically quintessential.
I’ve been trying to kick the habit lately, but the prospect of sparking up and leading to such sublime artistic discovery only gives me yet another excuse to continue.
Check out the song below.
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