Posts Tagged ‘psychedelica’

Album of the day: Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space [Collector's Editon]

Posted on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen...

Lovingly pinched from Pitchfork: “There’s a hole in my arm where all the money goes,” moans Jason Pierce at the start of “Cop Shoot Cop…”, the 17-minute closer of Spiritualized’s third album and lone masterpiece, Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space. His bedraggled voice drips through the words. He’s an addict, but it’s as if he realizes none of it mattered, anyway — there’s no salvation, no redemption, only cold life and sudden death. One cop lives to kill another cop. Or a junkie survives only long enough to shoot up again. The world keeps turning. Just like in his opening line, he quotes John Prine: “Jesus Christ died for nothing, I suppose.”

Since the 1997 release of Ladies and Gentlemen, Spiritualized have recorded three LPs, a handful of singles and EPs, and two double-disc sets called Complete Works. And the noise-gospel rock sprees that followed Ladies and Gentlemen cemented Spiritualized’s reputation as one of rock ‘n’ roll’s best live spectacles.

Continue reading: Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Spiritualized: Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space [Collector's Editon].

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Album of the day: Highway Child – Sanctuary Come

Posted on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: With the early fuzz tone of the guitar and the insistent rhythm, it’s uncanny how much “In the End” from Highway Child’s second album through Elektrohasch Schallplatten, Sanctuary Come, sounds like “Hey Bulldog” from The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine. With the McCartneyist piano bounce (transposed onto ...read more

Album of the day: Bardo Pond – Bufo Alvarius

Posted on Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Praise for Bardo Pond’s Bufo Alvarius from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records: One of our favorite records from this Philly drone / drug / psych ensemble, available again on lp, this time with a bonus track, and a cd version bundled with the lp…
Bufo Alvarius, originally released in 1995, was Bardo ...read more

Dead Meadow: Free Exclusive Fan Download #2 – I’m Gone

Posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Dead Meadow’s second track of 4 fan exclusives is ready to download:

Dead Meadow have just announced the details surrounding their upcoming record release party / film premiere for their upcoming new album and original film, The Three Kings, out on March 23rd. Taking place at the historic location of Hollywood ...read more

Dead Meadow: Free Exclusive Fan Download

Posted on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Psychedelic cosmonauts Dead Meadow released an exclusive fan only download of a non-album live performance of ‘Babbling Flower’. You can download this track directly below:

‘Babbling Flower’ was recorded live during the Three Kings performances. Dead Meadow will be giving away a total of 4 exclusive tracks, one each week for ...read more

Album of the day: White Hills – S/T

Posted on Monday, February 15th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Quietus: Twenty-first Century space rock juggernauts White Hills‘ first blip on the radar, outside of their native New York, probably came in 2005 when Julian Cope, in his guise of tastemaker to the tuned in and turned on, started bigging them up on his rather marvellous ...read more

Album of the day: Loop – Fade Out (reissue)

Posted on Friday, February 12th, 2010

Praise for Loop’s Fade Out from San Francisco’s Aquarius Records:  When people think of spaced out, drone-y drug rock, Spacemen 3 seem to get all the love, which is of course fair, Spacemen 3 totally rule, their music is magical, especially for some of us who will probably only ever ...read more

Album of the day: Samsara Blues Experiment – Long Distance Trip

Posted on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: I can’t figure out why none of the myriad stoner indies out there has jumped on Berlin’s heavy psych rockers Samsara Blues Experiment. The German four-piece have recorded their first full-length, Long-Distance Trip, and sent it over for some preview-type listening, and especially coming off ...read more

Album of the day: Earthless – Live at Roadburn

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from StonerRock.com: The trick of free-flowing instrumental jams is keeping it interesting for long stretches of time. If there’s a group currently out there that knows this better than Earthless, I’d like to know who it is. From my vantage point, Earthless is the cream of the psychedelic ...read more

Earthless confirmed to play Roadburn Festival on Thursday, April 15th

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010

We are thrilled to announce the return of Earthless to the Roadburn stage on Thursday, 15 April 2010.

Earthless were among the undisputed highlights of the 2008 edition of the festival. The story behind the recording of Earthless  — Live at Roadburn has been documented widely by various ...read more