“You’re wasting time again acting ageless,” sings Will Campion on the second track of World Champion’s debut EP Avocado Galaxy. It’s a poetic epithet that characterises the band’s approach to its debut; an introspective offering comprising experimental flourishes of psych and electronica. The EP is a raw, sometimes jumbled offering, but it feels like that’s exactly the way it was planned.
Avocado Galaxy continues the legacy of psychedelic releases that take the listener on a journey through dream states, although World Champion’s pop sensibilities keep things light with cherubic choruses and breezy synth loops. The lead single is an undeniably infectious groove, but the real pleasure comes from exploring the rest of the songs that complete the ethereal trip.
The tracks fluctuate from the esoteric vocals of Shakes to the densely layered Avocado Moon. Echoing the production of early 2000s electronica, the latter song’s steady pulse leaves its audience softly swaying into the ether, a fitting coda for an EP that is at least loosely themed around some alternate final frontier.
This has been a successful first step for World Champion. Their next seems fated to bring even more excellent adventures into the psych-pop stratosphere.
BY JAMES ROSS
