
There have never been more voodoo healers, jungle priests and gurus that you can employ at any one time. In fact, there are places around the world that get by on the tourism promoted by these people. Think it’s hard to reach them? Unless they’re overbooked, think again.
I don’t mean to put you off drinking ayahuasca the next time you visit the Peruvian jungles situated at an altitude that would make most people sick. We all need to entertain our imagination somehow. After years of seeking out these kinds of modern-day magicians, I’d rather put my faith in a record.

For the most part, Soft Cuff’s music and the guided meditation of the new age gurus do the same thing. It’s just their promises that differ. Both rely on utilising your imagination, which is likely to have been starved of nourishment. When hardships and anxieties overpower us, we forget to take care of our internal theatre.
Yes, Soft Cuff is here to help on the band’s self-titled EP. And the musicians will make it easy for you. All you need to do is take the music lying down, preferably, and raise your right arm whenever your mind takes you into places where it hasn’t before.
The music, warm psychedelic rock, for the most part, is designed no different from the aforementioned quasi-religious ceremony. There’s a mysterious introduction, the song “Pruss Retend,” where you get no information other than the fact that you’ll be sealed off from the world for a while.
Next, “Chef’s Kiss,” with its retro groove and excellent cascading hook, will pull you back into the dreams you had a long, long time ago. This may all feel as if you’re floating, and you may be afraid about where to land, but you mustn’t worry.

The “Soft Cuff EP” does many things and brings in many different sounds, but it holds onto the mood it sets in the early stages. The ridiculously titled and just pleasantly psychedelic “Pasta Priest” and “TuPay” further reveal just how smoothly the four musicians have learned to interact with each other.
“Wouldn’t’ve” is a stroll up and down the last tall mountain. The tune begins as an exercise in restraint and minimalism before things take a turn into over-the-top 60s acid rock.
Where does it all leave us? Ready to end the experiment a bit lighter and more stimulated than we were the moment that we walked in. “Elephant Walk” is a tropical psychedelic trip that you’re free to enter and leave at your liking.
What did you see, hear and feel while all of this was going on around you? If you were fully on board, hopefully, plenty of things of which your mind was malnourished. So, delete the healers’ and priests’ numbers for a while. If you put the same faith in music, it may deliver results that are just as fantastic.
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