Posts Tagged ‘psychedelica’

Album of the day: U.S. Christmas – Run Thick In The Night

Posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Stonerrock.com: U.S. Christmas are one of those rare bands who can meld seemingly disparate elements together to form their own cohesive and distinct sound. Think Neil Young jamming with Hawkwind, Spacemen 3 and Pink Floyd, and you’re in the right direction, but comparisons like those don’t even give them their due credit. Bands like USX (as they’re commonly referred to…) are more than the sum of their parts. Although the influences are distinct, they’ve got their own thing going on, and its fully righteous.

Their last album, Eat The Low Dogs, was hailed as a masterpiece, and Run Thick In The Night doesn’t depart drastically on the sound they’ve already established. It begins with the moody, brooding 13 minute track ‘In The Night’, with its heavily textured, wall of sound “outlaw country gone shoegaze” guitars and spacey keyboard sweeps, and morphs quickly into the Hawkwind inspired rager ‘Wolf On Anareta.’

‘Fire Is Sleeping’ is a tender ballad, really upping the ante on the Southern and Skynyrd influences without resorting to the usual cliches, and adds some weepy violin and mournful slide guitar to the mix. The next few songs continue in this style, country-tinged, acid drenched, and melancholy, until the bass and drum driven track ‘The Quena’ breaks the spell and gives a much needed change of pace.

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Album of the day: Bitchin Bajas – Tones / Zones (LP)

Posted on Monday, August 30th, 2010

Praise for Bitchin Bajas‘ Tones / Zones (Important)  from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: With a name like Bitchin Bajas you would expect some bratty lo-fi garage pop or ironic washed out rock, but sometimes the name and the sound can exist in two entirely different worlds, and with Bitchin Bajas ...read more

Album of the day: Hypnos 69 – Legacy

Posted on Monday, August 23rd, 2010

Loving pinched from HellrideMusic.com: As of lately I’ve been returning to grooving and jamming all day to the awesome prog sounds of: Eloy, Sixty Nine, Van Der Graaf Generator, and some classic badass rock like Captain Beyond and when I got this sweet thing in the mail I was pleasantly ...read more

Rodriguez – Cold Fact

Posted on Monday, August 16th, 2010

Praise for Rodriguez’ Cold Fact from San Francisco’s aQuarius Records: Pop quiz! Quick: who’s the “street poet” singer with no first name*, son of Mexican immigrants, born and raised in Detroit Michigan, whose debut album from 1970 sounded like a fuzz-soul-psych version of Bob Dylan and / or Donovan, and ...read more

Serpentina Satelite: Mecanica Celeste – New Record Sampler

Posted on Friday, August 6th, 2010

Mecanica Celeste, the third official recording by South American space rockers Serpentina Satelite, is slated for a September 6th release via UK’s Rocket Recordings. After the success of their last raved about album Nothing to Say, the band returned to their studio in Peru to record this more ambitious and ...read more

Album of the day: My Sleeping Karma – Tri

Posted on Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: Although I’ll always have a soft spot for My Sleeping Karma because their second album, Satya, was the first full-length I reviewed specifically for The Obelisk, it’s the German four-piece’s instrumental heavy psychedelia that endears them most of all. As Elektrohasch Schallplatten releases their third ...read more

Sungod: New Track Available For Streaming

Posted on Friday, July 30th, 2010

“The Key Is No Key”, a brand new song from Austin TX ‘ Sungod is available for streaming below.  The track comes off the band’s full-length, First Matter , which is scheduled for an August release via Cyclopean Records . Cyclopean Records is proud to introduce Sungod, an onslaught of ...read more

Album of the day: Quest for Fire – Lights From Paradise

Posted on Friday, July 30th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from The Obelisk: When Tee Pee Records put out Quest for Fire’s self-titled full-length last year, I got a promo of it, and it went promptly on my shelf. I didn’t even listen. You know why? Because I knew that if I listened to it, I’d like it, ...read more

Album of the day: Cave – Pure Moods (EP)

Posted on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Lovingly pinched from Tiny Mix Tapes: I don’t like to go nuts on titles as nose-tapping theses for reviews, but I think we can all agree that Pure Moods is a fucking great name for a record — an invitation to a real face-melter, if it’s as sarcastic as it ...read more

La Otracina: New Album Available Via Itunes; New Song Available For Download

Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Incorporating elements of hard rock, punk, and metal, La Otracina (featuring members of Titan, Children, and the dearly-departed Nebula) still know how to lock into a heavy-psychedelic groove, and they do it well. The retro-leaning band will show off some of those XL riffs on a new LP Reality Has ...read more

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