Lo! Peninsula

“Troubled minds are running wild/To disappear by sleight of hand,” Manipuri psych rock band Lo! Peninsula’s frontman Nitin Shamurailatpam warns on the sinister “Sleight of Hand,” which is just the second track on their starry, soul-searching self-titled debut EP. In their self-professed journey towards “catharsis of the existential crisis” they’ve faced since Lo! Peninsula came together in April last year, Shamurailatpam, bassist Avinash Thokchom and drummer Jyotin Elangbam lock in to ethereal rock that perfectly captures daydreaming amidst angst (“Quicksand (Nuffin),” “Flashback Kid”) and a resigned sense of wisdom (“Another Divine Joke”). –Anurag Tagat - Rolling Stone India