Labyrinth

Sydney’s The Moffs suffered a little for releasing such a memorable debut single, the liquid psych-pop of 1985’s “Another Day In The Sun”. By 1988, their debut (and only) album Labyrinth offered up a group of expansive visionaries – “Tapestry” drones mysteriously, like The Doors’ “Indian Summer”; “Surprised” is a waltz-time shimmy; ‘The Grazing Eyes” is luscious Byrdsian pop in slow motion. The Moffs’s music was getting more diffuse, more limpid in its psychedelic focus; it’s a shame an album so quietly ambitious would be their final statement, the group dissolving in 1989.