5 Green Moons is the latest alias of acid house renaissance man, Justin Robertson. Author, DJ, producer, one of Robertson’s paintings adorns the cover of the album, Moon 1. The release, I suspect ties into a larger conceptual work that will also, ultimately, include his novels.

It’s a record heavily influenced by dub, but it ain’t reggae. Bass creating a space for Robertson’s occult electronic experiments instead. Digi-dub subs and melodic live B-lines providing a stoned, hypnotic sound-bed that’s subsequently coloured by percussive rattles and scratchy guitars. In places, squeaky reeds, and “free” piano give the pieces a junkie jazz noir feel. While the riddims recall Mysticisms’ run of mutant dubplates, the cuts’ details have a tape-collaged tone. Robertson’s not aiming to ape Kings Tubby or Jammy here, but rather pick up the baton from late `70s / early `80s British post-punk pioneers such as Charles Bullen and Steve Beresford.

Spider Dub is a PiL-like pounder. Garbage Van Exhaust also disco-not-discos in a fierce Jah Wobble-esque fashion. Tiny Spiral Loom could be some super obscure On-U Sound one-off. Everything’s A Song In A Sound World uses the same acoustic textures to seemingly pay tribute to Jeff Mills’ frantic flickering funk.

There are honking Moondog-like marches and weird wonky narratives. The results sometimes reminding me of former Banshee and Psychic TV / Derek Jarman associate Kenny Morris’ La Main Morte. The record’s roots not in Kingston, Jamaica, but kosmische and Pagan folk.

Several of the tracks, particularly on side 2, have kinda gothic titles that could hint at Robertson’s interest in magick and artists such as David Tibet: In The Emptiness, Materials Made From Blood, Cracked Cloud Before War. The nursery rhyme-like vocals, disorientating, disembodied voices, spoken passages and snatches of subterranean samples cement this sense of the spooky, supernatural, otherworldly. I See All And I See Nothing is the immediate standout.

5 Green Moons’ Moon 1 is out now on Pamela Records. You can order copies from all good stores, such as Phonica and Juno. If you order from Rough Trade you’ll get a green vinyl exclusive.