Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Thread 2015: Red With Purple Flashes

I hear some of these $3 games are good but are they CUP OF COFFEE GOOD?

Sorry wrong thread!

What else from this year sounds like the Wand album????????

they are like my ideal heavy rock band sound i.e. stoner Tubeway Army

this Mondo Drag album sounds cool on a cursory listen

Have you heard this band Tame Impala

There's a new White Manna
https://whitemanna.bandcamp.com/album/pan

Finding more than one stoner/psych Tubeway Army within the same year, let alone a decade is a tall order! I like that White Manna. The latest Thee Oh Sees is heavier than previous stuff, not quite as good as Wand. Heaters, who I saw open for Wand, have an album out in Aug. I really love the Male Gaze - Gale Maze EP, post-punk-psych!

I'm working on a Psych Noir piece that hopefully people will enjoy.

Latest on upcoming releases:

Glowsun - Beyond The Wall Of Time (Napalm) 23-Jun
Ecstatic Vision - Sonic Praise (Relapse) 30-Jun
Bevar Sea - Invoke The Bizarre Jun
Agusa - Agusa 2 (The Laser's Edge) 21-Jul
Black Space Riders - Refugeeum (Black Space/Cargo) 24-Jul
Sundays & Cybele - Heaven (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) 31-Jul
Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss (Sargent House) 7-Aug
Ghost - Meliora (Loma Vista) 21-Aug
Kadavar - Berlin (Nuclear Blast) 21-Aug
Motörhead - Bad Magic (UDR) 21-Aug
The Sword - High Country (Razor & Tie) 21-Aug
Hills - Frid (Rocket) 28-Aug
Pentagram - Curious Volume (Peaceville) 28-Aug
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - The Night Creeper (Rise Above) 4-Sep
Windhand - Grief's Infernal Flower (Relapse) 18-Sep
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence (Nuclear Blast) 25-Sep
Heaters - Holy Water Pool (Beyond Beyond is Beyond) 25-Sep
Christian Mistress - To Your Death (Relapse) Sep
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker) Sep

wow @ september releases

New Hills is great news, at least!

I'm working on a Psych Noir piece that hopefully people will enjoy.

My interest is piqued. Piqued!

Couple of Kikagaku Moyo live sets turned up on Dime over the last few days.
Now got Chui Wan from LA last month this morning.

Hoping more of both appear. Hadn't heard Chui Wan before.

Liked the new White Manna right off the bat. Production is a cut above.

Saw Chui Wan at both LA shows - new album is so great.

Don't miss out on the Birdstriking set from the same night.

Is Lola Colt going to be in your psych-noir piece, fnb? Because that band is the freaking best.

https://youtu.be/TL-4O5VjLEY

Don't miss out on the Birdstriking set from the same night.

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THanks for that, since i had somehow managed to miss it otherwise. Got it d/loading now.

Kaleidoscopes & Grimoires: Psych Noir
http://fastnbulbous.com/kaleidoscopes-grimoires-psych-noir/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/2PegSe2opuqlDPF2zWCB7P

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/psych-noir.jpg

Enjoyed the article, thx for sharing

I was pretty fried at the end of the work week, and once I got some sleep I was able to flesh out the last section starting at "Guns, Peyote ‘n’ Dark Highways," including Devil Worshipper, The Black Angels, 10 000 Russos, Sonic Jesus, The Janitors, The Lucid Dream & Taman Shud.

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/psych-noir-2.jpg

That article looks amazing, definitely going to read the whole thing when I get a chance!

Arthur Magazine
‏@arthurmagazine

We've got this feature length concert film of ArthurFest 2005 directed by Lance Bangs. Who wants to put it out?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CIuNQ8dUkAAi_Vl.jpg

The first few days it was published, July 2-6, it was missing the damn second paragraph, which was accidentally deleted when I added the Spotify widget and didn't notice! It was kind of important to the piece!

What’s surprising is that it took so long for a significant collection of artists to focus on consistently dark subject matter. It wasn’t until the past eight years that what I consider psych noir really took off. While occult rock is the most commonly used descriptor, I feel it is inadequate, because the majority of the bands are not serious practitioners of the occult, mysticism, black magick or Satanism. The occult is simply one of many themes in their lyrics that match up with the dark, psychedelic atmospherics of their music, just like doom is only a minor element of only some of the bands. While I don’t know if anyone else is ever going to use it, I think psych noir is the perfect descriptor, if not genre name. Just like how there is disagreement among scholars whether “film noir” is a legitimate genre, or a “style,” or just a “cycle,” “phenomenon,” “mood” or “series.” Either way, it’s a useful way to address a diverse body of work that shares a disposition and group of elements without having to share every element. Just as not every film noir movie has a femme fatale or a hard boiled detective, not every psych noir band references the occult, witchcraft or hails Satan.

Psychedelic Psummer: Tame Impala’s Synths Vs. All the Guitars
http://fastnbulbous.com/psychedelic-psummer-tame-impalas-synths-vs-all-the-guitars/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/1212496385/playlist/372tkPi9hSI3FdCFZa6RlT

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/psychedelic-psummer-2015.jpg

Oh awesome. Can't wait to delve into this.

Out today and last week:

Sundays & Cybele - Heaven
https://open.spotify.com/album/5npxhgwoUwRBzVpswMaeL2

Year Of The Goat - The Unspeakable
https://open.spotify.com/album/0ECeTz3h31GCSMfoFQphyZ

Sacri Monti - Sacri Monti
http://fastnbulbous.com/sacri-monti-sacri-monti/
https://open.spotify.com/album/7wreY3ojQtvQSWEYCirk7y

Lee Dorrian is curating Roadburn! I'm so going.

http://www.roadburn.com/2015/08/lee-dorrian-to-curate-roadburn-2016-with-his-rituals-for-the-blind-dead-parts-1-2/

In the last few years, Dorrian has been assembling an amazing roster of new bands on his Rise Above label that span a fascinating range of psych, prog, folk, doom, proto-metal and more, with Galley Beggar, Lucifer, Death Penalty, Hidden Masters, The Oath, Troubled Horse, Saturn, Iron Man, SerpentCult, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Blood Ceremony, Purson, Age of Taurus, Horisont, Noctum and Ghost. Hopefully his new band made up of former members of Electric Wizard, With The Dead, will also make an appearance.

While there should be a healthy representation of bands from his label's roster, of course he'll also want to reach far beyond that. There should be plenty of surprises. I would expect a once-in-a-lifetime reunion a favorite psych prog band from that 1968-72 era, along the lines of High Tide, Gun, Night Sun, Blackwater Park, T2 or Flower Travellin' Band. Fingers crossed! My wishlist would include Spirits of the Dead, Motorpsycho, I Am The Mansion, Jess & Jess and the Ancient Ones, Colour Haze, Syd Arthur, Wolf People, Anekdoten, Dead Skeletons, Lola Colt, Messenger - Band, Avatarium, Blues Pills, Goatess, Spiders, 40 Watt Sun, Sonic Jesus, The Janitors, The Lucid Dream, The Black Waves, Taman Shud, mostly European-based bands that never make it to the U.S. that I've never seen. Plenty of other great worthy American bands that would fit in too, like Magic Circle, Fellwoods, Golden Void, Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band, Fuzz, Wo Fat, Green & Wood, Brimstone Coven, Demon Eye, Quilt, Argus, Devil Worshipper, etc.

More about Dorrian's psych prog tastes in the beginning of this thread: Psych Prog 1968-72

In the “150 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” issue of Classic Rock Magazine, his piece called <a href="http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/psych-prog.pdf";>"Prog Psych: The Great Lost Albums of British Rock, 1968-72"</a> covered 20 albums that inhabited what was special about the transition from 60s psychedelic rock to 70s progressive.

In the “150 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die” issue of Classic Rock Magazine, his piece called Prog Psych: The Great Lost Albums of British Rock, 1968-72 covered 20 albums that inhabited what was special about the transition from 60s psychedelic rock to 70s progressive.

http://doomcharts.com/2015/08/07/doom-charts-for-august-2015/

https://www.facebook.com/events/431532273700189/

Fuzz Club Festival, London
FRIDAY NOV. 13th
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THE KVB
CAMERA
THE TELESCOPES
10,000 RUSSOS
NEW CANDYS
THROW DOWN BONES

SATURDAY NOV. 14th
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THE MYRRORS
LOLA COLT
SONIC JESUS
MUGSTAR
THE CULT OF DOM KELLER
RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON
THE JANITORS
THE ORANGE REVIVAL
DEAD RABBITS

http://doomcharts.com/2015/09/04/doom-charts-for-september-2015/

So quiet here. So in one of those What Are You Listening Now groups, someone bragged about having the new Dungen, and I wanted to reach out thru the 'net and smack 'em. I have it pre-ordered, but no promo yet. So would it be just as annoying if I said I'm enjoying my first few listens to Horisont, Graveyard and Christian Mistress? I saw Christian Mistress last week, great show in a tiny room. Davis' voice started losing power partway through, but the band more than made up for it. Graveyard isn't what I expected so taking some adjustment but I'm on board with it. Horisont have stepped up their songwriting big time. Some psych, but bit of Judas Priest going on there too!

A recent review: Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – The Night Creeper (Rise Above)

why were you upset at the dungeon dude? the album leaked a couple days ago

Not upset, just annoyed -- I had been unable to track anything down at the time and he didn't say anything about what it was like. I finally did, and I like it, though it's not a big departure from the last couple, jazzy, Swedish lyrics, etc. There's a lot coming out. Similarly, I also pre-ordered the Golden Void but will not receive it 'til next week, though it's out tomorrow. The two tracks I heard are great.

Also, new Wand album is streaming:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2015/09/wand_streaming.html

http://fastnbulbous.com/christian-mistress-to-your-death/
http://fastnbulbous.com/golden-void-berkana/
http://fastnbulbous.com/graveyard-innocence-decadence/

It's raining rock and I can't keep up:

Snail - Feral
Wand - 1000 Days
Horisont - Odyssey
Dungen - Allas Sek
Marvel - The Hills Have Eyes

this is gonna be hot. tell your friends.

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12042680_10204783702531442_4907634168779688876_n.jpg?oh=ea500d00ad76f0f55fa0ed0759ecd52b&oe=568C7DD1

New Dungen is a little too earnest and cute for me, mostly---will listen more, but I remember them as being more robust---do really like the coda of last track; never heard anything quite like it--and a couple of others.

Oh yeah---may have already pasted this from the The Future Is Now thread, but worth mentioning again

Another xpost electric lunch break< with 37'58" more sustaining than a lot of double-LPs:
Sonic Praise, the 6/30 debut album offering of Ecstatic Vision. Philly souls are among those who already Know, but new to me.
"Journey" arrives with the droning sting of a dinosaur's tail, bass & drums bouncing and swaying over thee ancient dust of another Monday, replenished by well-timed injections: pedals and petals of guitar, keys, maybe a sax sometimes---obv. they like Hawkwind, with Lemmy-like throats.
"Astral Plane": better keep your butts in gear up here: "Look in the mirror and tell youself, space is the place to be....believe what you want to believe..." *What* a balancing act.
Somewhere in here (scribbled notes) is either "Everyday we work now behbeh," or is it "Everyday don't work"? Both? They both fit, over and under onslaughts/
"Don't Lose The Vibe," with an exclamation mark after each word in the chanted title.
Title song sounds like they also like bands with "Temple" in the name*, while getting further from the sludge appeal, kneeling on and rattling International Dateline---
"Crossing The Divide" puts it all back together, as Sasquatch drums reappear, bidding bobbing heads to rise and dance through aurora borealis (might be some buzzsaws working overtime in there).
*Bio sheet adds influences of Aprodites Child, Olatunji, Can, and early Amon Duul.

https://f1.bcbits.com/img/a3352706445_16.jpg

Ecstatic Vision went down a storm at last week's Uncle Acid/Ruby The Hatchet show. Everyone thought they should headline.

September’s Lucky 13
http://fastnbulbous.com/septembers-lucky-13/

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/september-2015-lucky-13.jpg

A countdown to catch up on short reviews of:
Snail – Feral (Small Stone)
Dungen – Allas Sak (Mexican Summer)
Horisont – Odyssey (Rise Above)
Wand – 1000 Days (Thrill Jockey)
Julia Holter – Have You In My Wilderness (Domino)
Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower (Relapse)

Out today:

Spelljammer - Ancient Of Days (RidingEasy)
Old Man's Will - Hard Times - Troubled Man (RidingEasy)
Kylesa - Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist)
Clutch - Psychic Warfare (Weathermaker)

these guys are playing at my store tomorrow. looking forward to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8viuQ3rx6wQ

Julia Holter? OK...

Yes, my interests sometimes go beyond this thread, sorry for letting it leak through!

The new Doom Charts:
http://doomcharts.com/2015/10/06/doom-charts-for-october-2015/

I saw Kadavar the other night. Definitely one of the best touring hard rock bands in the world right now, highly recommend 'em. There were probably only about 60 people there -- while it was a Sunday night, it's a good example of why more European bands like Spiders, Witchcraft, Colour Haze, 40 Watt Sun, Blues Pills don't tour North America much. In contrast, here was their recent show in Mexico City:

http://tono.tv/fotos/2015/kadavar/kadavar-21.jpg

that Ecstatic Vision is just an unbelievably tight 37 minutes of rock.

this was so great last night in the basement. sunburned + dredd foole + j. mascis on electric sitar. i was pretty drunk so sorry about the shakeycam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w_j0XkFQls

I am new to them, but I'm really feeling Snail's "Feral" right now.

incoming...
https://spacin.bandcamp.com/album/total-freedom-2016

Yessssssssssssssssssss

Deep Thuds still gets put on regularly. Great band.