Rather than a straight forward, guitar-fueled, psychedelic experience, Possum instead went in search of fractal forms and came out with an LSD-fueled trip through the cosmos so deep that it would make the 13th Floor Elevators jealous.
Torontonian psychonautic quintet Possum returns after their spellbinding debut with Lunar Gardens, a vibrant trip through space and time that only takes the smallest cues from its predecessor, Space Grade Assembly. The Astral Plane displays this idea and invites us, the listeners, to explore our past and meditate on the quiet pain we endure on a daily basis through the accumulation of all previous experience, as it’s the only way we can find solace in suffering. These thoughts of family trauma, individual trauma that will inevitably manifest, and the impact we have on the future of others, they aren’t a problem with the world, but a part of it. On the other hand are songs like “Hoodoo”, which divulge into the impact we’re making on our Earth and the world we’re leaving for our descendants. For example, the albums seventh track, “Greenbelt”, searches through the memory of Sipos’ childhood growing up on a family farm. The passing down of trauma is inevitable and The Astral Plane explores this through songs about different moments in time. However, this early trauma took a toll on their family later in life, creating emotional fallout that affects Sipos and her family to this day. Despite the adversity facing them, they managed to thrive and create a life and family for themselves. They arrived in Canada with no money and no way of communicating with the locals. The album’s lyrics explore the past of Sipos’ family, with her grandparents being survivors of the Holocaust who later fled Hungary during the Communist Revolution.
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Accompanied by the haunting finger picking of Nick Zubeck on guitar, the sparing but effective percussion from Blake Howard, the beautiful keyboard from Thomas Hammerton, and the full sound of Mark McIntyre’s bass, the album presents a haunting sound delivered with competence and complexity. The album opens with a piano and guitar working in unison to create an ambient curtain opening before fully presenting the first track, “Light In Moon On”, which establishes the albums contemporary folk sound and philosophical lyricism. Dana Sipos dwells into these themes with grace and compassion through her newest LP, the masterfully crafted The Astral Plane. It takes a certain tuning in one’s soul to look inward and discover the true scope of our impact on others through the weight we carry on our shoulders, and doubly so, finding a way to express these revelations. With all the pain that comes from, you know, being alive, a lot of us try our best to avoid suffering through either hedonist habits or pure ignorance.
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