Sometimes you can have too much time to think. Following the release of Gengahr’s third album Sanctuary in early 2020 the unspooling issues the pandemic brought to musicians ended up haunting their singer, Felix Bushe. In that time bands came and went, and the nagging doubt that the quartet, having met at school, had since failed to live up to their potential gnawed away at Bushe and his colleagues, in train causing doubt and no little feelings of insecurity.
According to Bushe the group rallied around themselves, setting the context for Red Sun Titans as them more or less against the world, underdogs with something very much both still to prove and offer. Musically they delved back to Indie’s halcyon nineties days for inspiration, squaring this with deft touches of psychedelia. The end product they claim is something best described as ‘Gengahr 2.0.’
In form however this represents more of an upgrade than a brand new version of themselves. There are at least some familiarly pop workouts such as The Moment and A Ladder, whilst at the opposite end of the spectrum the title track addresses the climate crisis. It’s left to the Foals-sounding White Lightning to typify what this new direction is all about, but if Red Sun Titans has it’s roots in questions of purpose, the confident answers are easy enough to hear.
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The Voice Of Unreason 
Their music does remind me of Glass Animals in spots, in no small part because Bushe’s vocals sound quite similar to Dave Bayley’s.
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