Wet Tuna - Vast CD

“Vast,” the fourth studio album from Vermont’s Wet Tuna to make its way to vinyl and first since 2022, presents a wide-screen slab of irreverent, playful psychedelia that could have only come from the hands / brain / interstellar groove telescope of Matt “MV” Valentine. Over the course of ten tracks you are hit with slice after slice of pleasantly disorienting, secretly whip-tight rural funk that is truly out of time. One tune in you start to feel gravity lighten your grip to the earth. By track three that lightness gives way to a distinct “when was this recorded?” vibe. 1960? 2170? 2280? By jam ten you’ve been so soaked in the aura that you no longer care as you know that you are HERE NOW. Where else have you ever been? Or wanted to be? - Jeremy Erwin / Cory Rayborn