Goldstein, Ross - Chutes & Ladders |-

The Mellotron has graced songs by some of rock’s most important and popular artists: David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” King Crimson’s “The Court Of The Crimson King,” and the Rolling Stones’ “2000 Light Years From Home,” to name but a few. Yet it’s always seemed more like a side dish than a main course in these contexts. Ross Goldstein—a rock musician with psychedelic inclinations (see his recordings with Devin Gary & Ross, Fog Window, etc.)—decided to thrust the Mellotron to the forefront with a trilogy of albums that culminates in the riveting new collection Chutes And Ladders, which follows 2018’s The Eighth House and 2020’s Timoka.