Rolling Stoner/Psych/Doom/Sludge/Retro/Drone/Space Thread 2012

it does!

There's a ton of those I haven't heard, but The Cosmic Dead is a number-one absolute must see. Schedule your day around that, if needed. Their live stuff I've heard is phenomenal.

awesome, thanks man, will do!

I will second Sylverster Anfang II and James Blackshaw too though.

Sylvester even.

yeah they're both on the list too, I would think they'll be relatively high up the bill as well.

Dagger Brothers blurb: "If you are brave enough to attend you may be sexually assaulted". I'm so there!

kogumaza will hit the same spot the cosmic dead will. Their album and 7" i have is great and emil.y will back me up

ugh at that blurb

Sounds like I need to check out Kogumaza then!

Kogumaza are good, I think they reward concentration if you get me

I saw the Dagger Brothers years ago at a club night. they played after The Bug and came straight on stage as they have no equipment aside from backing tapes; their set consisted of following the MCs (Warrior Queen and possibly Flowdan?) around while they were trying to pack up, and being 'homoerotic' towards in in an unsuccessful effort to provoke them. then one of them jumped off the stage and broke a girl's ribs. also I was introduced to one of them a long time after this and in lieu of shaking my hand he bit it hard enough to break the skin

anyway I just wanted to mention I hate them

Bear in mind I'm not a metaller, but here's my round-up.

Essential:
The Telescopes
Sylvester Anfang II
Kogumaza
Bilge Pump

Highly Recommended:
Cold Pumas
Cosmic Dead
Embla Quickbeam
La La Vasquez
The Pheromoans
Sauna Youth
Shudder Pulps
The Sticks

Recommended:
Covergirl
Fairhorns (this is Matt Team Brick, if I had seen him I'm sure it'd be more than recommended, but is this low solely because I have not yet witnessed this particular act)
The Family Elan
Fat Bicth
Hamilton Yarns
Sweet Williams
Woolf

Ones that didn't make it into this list are still probably brilliant. Also, it's not clear when the 'Bang the Bore' stuff is on but if you get a chance to see Bolide, who are involved with that, then do. If you like poetry even a little bit then go and see Keston Sutherland. If you like poetry more than a little then also go and see Francesca Lisette and Alan Hay.

Cheers Emily, so basically I can't go too far wrong! I actually knew Matt Team Brick a little bit when I lived in Bristol over ten years ago- Bugbrand is from the same scene, so I'll definitely be catching both of them.

On the arts side, I'm going to play that by ear I should think. Lots of interesting looking things there too...

Can't disagree with everything said above, just to add that Shigeru Ihara is worth seeing in whatever guise he's playing under so I wouldn't miss Scotch Bonnet either.

Although obviously he's not in the tone of this thread.

thanks mate, he sounds dead good...

If you're into things like The Heads, White Hills, et al, can recommend You’re Smiling Now But We’ll All turn into DEMONS. Not seen them live, but recently picked up their _Contact High_ album & it's great.

I felt compelled to bang out some reviews this week. Not sure how long this bug will stay up my butt. For several years I felt it unnecessary to write reviews when approximately three dozen sources all had reviews, but lately the albums I'm liking aren't getting much coverage at all, so I figured I should chip in.

http://fastnbulbous.com/captain-crimson-dancing-madly-backwards-transubstans/
http://fastnbulbous.com/admiral-sir-cloudesley-shovell-dont-hear-it-fear-it/
http://fastnbulbous.com/at-devil-dirt-chapter-ii/

I am liking the Goat "World Music" album.

Yeah that Goat album is very good. Here's the song "The Sun The Moon" from their 7" released earlier this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFD_MAiBUM0

I need to check out that Goat album

Fastnbulbous make sure you vote in FORGET THE ROLLING STONE CANON HERE IS ILM'S HARD STICK OF 1980'S ROCK POLL ALBUMS/TRACKS VOTING THREAD. (Voting closes September 20) (all welcome to vote inc Lurkers)

New Album of the Week: Alunah – White Hoarhound
http://fastnbulbous.com/alunah-white-hoarhound/

I don't follow this stuff, but I am liking this new Yamantaka // Sonic Titan single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhxrH1pWRVw

that band Goat rules

Tagged several times today on FB about those guys. So what's their story?

Also, not quite a Stoner/Psych/Sludge/Retro/Space band, but I think when they pull out songs like this, they might be worth the attention of people who want Stoner/Psych/Sludge/Retro/Space. I don't know maybe the second is a stretch, but it's pretty heavy to my ears. (Annoying yell at the end is from the host for this show, not a band member.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCISuPPaBck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEsOT1lOZx4

And since it hasn't been mentioned much at all on ILM, here's the whole Yamantaka/Sonic Titan album from last year (which I think is going to be issued in the U.S. this year? but not totally clear on that):

http://music.cbc.ca/#/play/CBC-Music/playlist/Yamantaka-Sonic-Titan-YTST

I only just heard this album today, so I have even less than usual discourse to provide.

YT // ST is the debut album from prog-metal-avant-garde-opera art collective and hyphen necessitators YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN. The band was formed in 2007 in Montreal, but now spends much of its time in Toronto.

The band is centred on drummer Alaska B and singer Ruby Kato Attwood, who are both of Anglo-Asian origin. This juxtaposition is reflected all over the work, from the band’s name to the new genre of music they’ve coined “noh-wave” (a reference to a form of Japanese dance theatre and the no-wave post-punk musical movement).

They like Boris.

Apologies if you're trying to keep the prog-metal-avant-garde-opera music off the Stoner/Psych/Doom/Sludge/Retro/Drone/Space thread.

Saw Lumerians tonight. They were pretty good! I love this first paragraph of their wikipedia page

Lumerians is a San Francisco Bay Area based five-member[1] band which has a psychedelic[3][8] "mindbender"[9] space rock[1] sound. The group is notable for performances characterized by "transcendent live video projections" and having "incredible visuals," according to one music critic.[1] One critic described the band as "Oakland's prize pony in the Bay Area gloom-folk horse race".[8] The sound has been compared to the German experimental music known as Krautrock with overtones of 1960s music.[1]

"prize pony in the bay area gloom-folk horse race"

man, that Goat band is a sweet, sweet mind-blitz. never even heard of them before, so thanks for pointing that direction.

lol I thought Polyphonic was talking about the Lumineers

the Goat youtube earlier sounds awesome, rym tags them with Afrobeat

White Manna album was talked about in other Psych/Drone/Freak thread, and that's pretty great too

another good acidrawk album up on Spotify is Aqua Nebula Oscillator's Third

^hah all 3 albums I've been repping for (I was the one who first tagged ned about Goat)

here's an imaginary medal for your excellence.

^ butthurt I didn't tag him

totally crushed.

oh yeah, duh, I was going to say AG def got me into ANO, and helped me get into the White Manna too

also: Sungod has two albums coming out this year. First one, Cuts from the Ether is already up at their Bandcamp page. It's v good, the first song "Gas is Better Than Gas" is twenty minutes long and by far my favorite. The second one Crash Galactic comes out at the end of the month.

Goat's awesome, I have Adrien's MSN review to thank for that one. Aqua Nebula Oscillator is pretty solid too.

Who tipped you off on Sungod!

oh geez AG lol...

also since I'm unburdening myself itt, check out Vespero's album Subkraut: U-Boats Wilkommen Hier which EZ tipped me off about.

congrats you all win the race to the top of space rock mountain

Also, this thread reminded me of how great that Heavy Blanket record is. Maybe a stretch to consider it in this thread, but it is pretty psych. Basically J Mascis soloing over barebones drums and bass for 38 minutes.

Compared to normal, I've been a reviewin' machine the past couple weeks. Stuff relevant to this thread:

Colour Haze – She Said (Elektrohasch)
http://fastnbulbous.com/colour-haze-she-said/

Ufomammut – Oro: Opus Primum / Opus Alter (Neurot)
http://fastnbulbous.com/ufomammut-oro-opus-primum-alter/

Castle – Blacklands (Ván/Prosthetic)
http://fastnbulbous.com/castle-signs-to-prosthetic-records-blacklands-due-sep-11/

Heat – Heat (Electric Magic)
Seremonia - Seremonia (Svart)
Rival Sons - Head Down (Earache)
http://fastnbulbous.com/this-weeks-album-rundown-120919/

Hexvessel - No Holier Temple (Svart)
The Graviators - Evil Deeds (Napalm)
Serpentine Path - Serpentine Path (Relapse)
Svölk - Nights Under the Round Table (Napalm)
http://fastnbulbous.com/this-weeks-album-rundown/

I dont get Hexvessel; maybe I need to listen to last year's album some more...

(I def am not hearing any AD2 in there, so back to that album I go...!)

Sunlight Service Group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLo_L0MFtqE
Freak Out London

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9jd1lFm2q8&feature=relmfu
THe Victoria, London, in June

2 sets from the band who featured on the last Cardinal Fuzz release , Bowling With the Bloodied Head of Barbara Streisand.

Googling them, I found a midlands cleaning service of the same name so I hope there isn't going to be any hassle over the rights to using the name. Also taking Barbawa's name in vain is a tad sacriligious and potentially litigious innit? Tough it did occur to me that maybe the title came from a game of what is this from the image on the cover.

The format that Cardinal Fuzz is releasing things in is one that I've not encountered much before. Vinyl cds, only other place I ca,me across it to my memory was a reggae cd that came on the front of Mojo about 10 years ago. Is it more widespread? Cheaper to do limited runs in than silver cds? I think I prefer it to cdr anyway, & it does hark back to an earlier age much as a lot of the music does to some extent while updating it too.

Roll on the next releases by both band and label.

Just got that in the post along with the 2nd pressing of You're Smiling Now...'s 2CDr which I'd missed out on 1st time round. Not had chance to listen yet though.

Remember seeing those vinyl-look CDrs for retail, guess you can still get them (not really checked as I've stuck to the same brand for years, & don't intend to change without a really good reason).

there's a new pulse emitter album out this year, 'aeons'.

http://www.synthnoise.com/recordings.html

haven't heard it