DEWEY MAHOOD, the atmospheric psychedelic guitarist who released his twelfth album as Plankton Wat for Thrill Jockey, Future Times, in late February, has dropped the shroom-surreal video for one of that excellent album’s standout tracks, “Modern Ruins”, a track all garlanded about with echo and twang-shimmer and flutes – you can watch that below.
The former Eternal Tapestry guitarist got together with Portland film-maker and musician of many stripes in his own right Dustin Dybvig to put together a little film by turns starkly one man and his guitar and increasingly acid prismatic, couched in the crumbling post-industrialism of the Oregon city.
Since leaving the deep psych jam shores of Eternal Tapestry, Dewey’s solo guitar excursions have burrowed ever deeper into a psychedelic response to an ever-fracturing world and weaves a path of hope through the darkness.
Plankton Wat’s Future Times is out now from Thrill Jockey digitally, on CD, and on trad black and limited translucent red vinyl; you can order yours direct from the label or, if you’re in the UK, then Rough Trade is a safe bet.
