White Heaven – Strange Bedfellow LP

Originally released in 1993 and now back on vinyl, White Heaven’s second album, ‘Strange Bedfellow’, is one of the great unsung albums of the ’90s Japanese underground. Released two years after the striking debut, ‘Out’, the album reveals the group shifting to a more dynamic and finely honed sound. You Ishihara’s songwriting and arrangements take center stage, leading the group to transmute classic west-coast psychedelia and garage into a thrillingly direct collection of songs that span from fuzz drenched, driving rockers to smoldering numbers that fade into the night…