| Release Date: | 19/12/2025 |
| Format: | 2LP Limited Green |
| Label: | TIP TOP RECORDINGS |
| Catalogue Number: | TIPT062EG |
The concept tying together every last note and lyric of 'Earth-Sized Worlds' - the debut album from the London/Oxford self-dubbed 'Flowerkraut' collective Mandrake Handshake - is an awfully simple one: 'Welcome to Space Beach'. A mantra to unite under one aesthetic roof the various creative compulsions of this complex, multi-limbed organism - varying at any one time between 7 to 10 members - it's an album that conspires the alienating vastness of the cosmos against the warm nostalgias of home. Full of surprise, leftfield turns and closeted experimentations, tape-soaked Brazilian Sambas morphs into Kosmische Kraturock crusades, and shimmering avant-pop electronics melt into sweetened psychedelic bliss... "Welcome to the Spacebeach - the new era of the Mandrake. Here, where the sea joins the sky, and where the trees touch the stars and where we will have you stay a while".
With news of their biggest UK headline show to date at London's No90 (Hackney Wick) on February 28th next year, Mandrake Handshake are certainly firing on all cylinders as their debut album release draws ever closer. Having already showcased lead singles 'Charlie's Comet', 'King Cnut' and 'The Change And The Changing'as they experiment further with their eccentric brand of 'Flowerkraut': a hedonistic, brain-frying feast of krautrock, art-pop and psychedelia.
Varying anywhere between 7-10 members - including a dedicated, flamboyant tambourine shaker - their pristine, multi-limbed spectacle of a live show has journeyed up and down the UK and EU in recent times. With multiple headline tours to their name, including a sold-out show at London's iconic 100 Club and headline slot on the BBC Introducing stage at Truck Festival earlier this year, the group have already ticked off slots at the likes of Wide Awake, Green Man and Manchester Psych Fest,as well as shows with psych-figureheads W.H Lung, Pale Blue Eyes, Triptides and Sugar Candy Mountain, and will embark on a UK tour supporting Del Amitri in December as their profile continues to soar.
Tracklist
Time Goes Up
Hypersonic Super-Astroid
Charlie's Comet
The Change and the Changing
Lorenzo's Desk
King Cnut
Barranmode
Find the Tree and Dig (Deep)!
Earth-Sized Worlds