“Timothy Hurford has lived an extraordin­ary life”, begins The Transpersonal’s press pack. His addic­tion to hal­lu­cino­gens and the occult gave way to music, and The Transper­son­als were born. The Transper­son­als have been slowly but surely work­ing their way towards suc­cess, play­ing at SXSW and Gla­ston­bury, mak­ing single of the week on Radio Two, and a year and a half down the line, the band are pre­par­ing to release another EP and an album “fol­low­ing closely behind” on Guer­illa Music.

Although the press pack laid out in black and white Timothy’s struggle with hal­lu­cino­genic drugs, it doesn’t take a detect­ive to hear it in the music. Kal­eido­scopes and white rab­bits come spin­ning out of the clean gui­tar and chant-like vocals, which give way to poetic inter­ludes laid over psy­che­delic bass­lines. Noth­ing is strained, and you can almost feel the green clouds ooz­ing out of the speak­ers. In places, it feels as though I could just go and lie on my bed, and the music would go on forever. Unfor­tu­nately, this short EP doesn’t even last twenty minutes. The songs are just a little too short to be com­pletely sat­is­fy­ing, and when the band try out some­thing a bit dif­fer­ent (the intro to The Spirit Molecule, for example), it just seems to feel like they’re inter­rupt­ing the nat­ural flow of the music.

Still, the rest of the EP is very, very good. If Jim Morrison’s in heaven, and he’s chilling out with Jerry Gar­cia, this is what they’re listen­ing to.