LP Review: No Man's Valley - Outside the Dream (2019) (English)

Do you know the feeling when you just woke up from an intense and realistic dream? Your eyes hurt from the light that tries to pull you into the day, your body is weary and heavy, your mind is still tired, and basically every party of your body and psyche would rather go back to sleep. And then there's your inner eye which is still half caught inside of the dream you just had, and tries to drag you back into the beautiful wonderland of unknown mysteries.
THAT is what No Man's Valley depict acoustically on their second long-time record "Outside the Dream".

After having released two EPs, three Singles, and one LP No Man's Valley are back on the track with their new eight-track long player "Outside the Dream": around 40 minutes of heavy, intense, psychedelic organ-driven Blues Rock. The new LP by the band from Horst in the Netherlands has been published via Tonzonen Records.

In a halting but thrilling, heavy but psychedelic, soft but intense manner No Man's Valley have created a beautiful hommage to the world that is located between dreams and reality. Turn on the record and close your eyes because it is time for day dreaming and enjoying the show that your mind is enacting when these tunes are on. The golden line leads you over a buzzy still-life on a planet crowded with pure nothingness.

The term Psychedelic Rock might be the most fitting for "Outside the Dream". If not, I'd call it Revery Space Rock. Listening to No Man's Valleys new album feels like watching the planet from above while being high on happy sedatives. The track "Into the Blue" especially gives the impression of leaving Earth on a huge spaceship of happiness. Then and when it reminds me of Pink Floyd's "Echoes".

No Man's Valley kidnap their audience on a trip straight from the bed to the stars. The journey passes reality and then heads off to a better place. "Outside the Dream" is the perfect soundtrack for any journey - even if it only takes place inside the mind. A wonderful piece of psychedelic art: timeless and worriless.