Daevid Allen's University Of Errors: Money Doesn't Make It
(innerSPACE 7707)

"Psychedelic" is one of the most overused and misused adjectives in all
of music criticism. However, that word is pretty much the only accurate
description of the musky, communal haze created by Daevid Allen's
University Of Errors, the band formed by the ageless founder of Gong and
the Soft Machine and members of the San Francisco-based spacerock
collective Mushroom. The new group's debut, Money Doesn't Make It,
thoughtfully updates '60s/'70s-inspired pharmaceutical jams with
jet-propelled guitars and a modern sense of anti-capitalistic dread.
Allen's shaman-like vocals, sci-fi poetry and blurry solos leave vapor
trails all over the players' excellent Asiatic drones and insistent,
pulsing punk-meets-Kraut rhythms. This album is not antiseptic,
indie-leaning, Terrastock-style psychedelia; it's a contemporary take on
the genuine article, one that thankfully leaves the genre's messy,
organic and confusing splendor fully intact.

Jordan N. Mamone