i forgot about those guys. i'll have to check that out
― dynamicinterface, Friday, 29 April 2016 12:05 (seven years ago) link
Playlist updated for April.
ILM'S Rolling Stoner-Psych Thread 2016
― ulysses, Saturday, 30 April 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
Hey fastnbulbous, you listen ti the Heron Oblivion album yet? Ex-members of Comets on Fire getting together with Meg Baird, whose band Espers I'm not very familiar with, but whose voice has a little bit of a Sandy Denny lilt to it. Anyways, they join forces to make what sounds to me like a witchier Bardo Pond. Probably one of my favorite things I've heard this year so far...
http://youtu.be/bNgij4jBNJI
http://youtu.be/4ZHlZ5GHfyE
― Stoner Gabbneb & the Cocoon of Cluelessness (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 2 May 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Full album youtube here
http://youtu.be/a6JlKhxX4Tc
I did listen to the Heron Oblivion when it came out and it should push all the right buttons, but for some reason it sank down in my playlist. I will revisit! Bright Curse - Before The Shore is kind of meat n potatoes stoner psych, but a few tracks are grabbing me. I'm kind of fatigued by the massive output of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard but am listening to new one now. I'm going to work on writing something about the Purson and Electric Citizen albums soon.
Boogarins are a Brazilian psych band, a bit of a chill Tame Impala vibe with touches of prog. They're opening up for Dungen on current tour, I'm thinking of seeing them on the 15th.
https://soundcloud.com/stereomonomusic/sets/boogarins-manualhttps://youtu.be/h-KiU3UogWs
A fun older discovery, Chilean surf/blues psych band The Psychedelic Schafferson Jetplane from 2010: https://youtu.be/HvjreAhINX8https://volantediscos.bandcamp.com/album/the-psychedelic-schafferson-jetplanehttp://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/products/the-psychedelic-schafferson-jetplane
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 5 May 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
The Boogarins are enjoyable. Can hear a bit of Unknown Mortal Orchestra guitar tones and even chording.
― calstars, Monday, 9 May 2016 00:58 (seven years ago) link
I can hear that. Looking forward to seeing Boogarins and Dungen on Sunday. The Radiohead album could almost fit in this thread with some of its psych folk leanings!
Kikagaku Moyo - House In The Tall Grass - Out on Friday. At first I felt the mellow psych folk was a bit slight, but it's grown on me. The longer tracks ("Green Sugar," "Silver Owl," "Trad") offer some guitar freakouts eventually.https://gurugurubrain.bandcamp.com/album/house-in-the-tall-grass
Causa Sui - Return To Sky - There's always a danger of my getting bored with instrumental jams, but Causa Sui always offers gorgeous tones, lush textures and subtle jazz/prog complexity. This might be my favorite of their sizeable discography. Destined to be an underdog as usual.https://soundcloud.com/elparaiso/sets/causa-sui-return-to-sky-fullhttp://elparaisorecords.com/artists/causa_sui
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Nonagon Infinity - The neverending album loop concept is gimmicky, but I love the furious garage punk energy they bring to this in comparison with other recent albums. There's also a bit of a Mahavishnu Orchestra feel to it. https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/nonagon-infinity-2
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
Mythic Sunship - Ouroboros - New labelmates on Causa Sui's Danish El Paraiso label, also out Friday. I haven't heard all of it yet, but comparisons to Amon Düül II, Earthless, Guru Guru, Travellin’ Flower Band are promising. For some reason only LP is available on Forced Exposure site, no CD.https://soundcloud.com/elparaiso/mythic-sunship-ophidian-rising
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link
Lol this stuff is looking great
― nintenderizer (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 10 May 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
wow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRlmbCultgKawabata Makoto & Baisong Wu - "Base Chamber"
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
the pickup at the beginning sounds like Nick Drake – "Which Will"
― ejemplo (crüt), Tuesday, 17 May 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
That's nice!
― calstars, Saturday, 21 May 2016 10:06 (seven years ago) link
I like the new Cosmic Dead album, Rainbowhead . Alternates between their trademark hard-drving cosmic highway music and more weird synth-y passages that almost remind me of the last Kemialliset Ystavat album
http://thecosmicdead.bandcamp.com/album/rainbowhead
― nintenderizer (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 22 May 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
saw Kikagaku Moyo live saturday and they were stellar, highly recommend catching a show if possible, very joyous, lots of smiling in the audience
cd also v good
― niels, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 09:34 (seven years ago) link
Boogarins were a blast live, highly recommend seeing them.
― JoeStork, Friday, 17 June 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
Cavern of Antimatter can hardly be considered 'rock' but their album has a p great kraut edge and wouldve fit in with a lot of the psych & prog stuff that I loved from last year
― gate crimes legislation (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 18 June 2016 02:29 (seven years ago) link
Comet Control are BACK!
― imago, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:24 (seven years ago) link
And they're sounding awesome :D
― imago, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
holy shit, the last track is a Freebird for the stars, or something
― imago, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
actually, it's the best Spiritualized song in 15 years
― imago, Friday, 8 July 2016 10:13 (seven years ago) link
This is v. nice at first impression
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Friday, 8 July 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Oh shit
― mark e smith and brexit (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 July 2016 09:40 (seven years ago) link
yeah this is good
― Brad C., Sunday, 10 July 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
Not my fave synth sounds in a few places.
Just listened to the first album for the first time, I like it too.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Monday, 11 July 2016 01:10 (seven years ago) link
omg this first one WOOOOO.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Monday, 11 July 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
From Drag City News:
SPOTLIGHT ON HIGGINS
Gary Higgins is back from the time-space continuum with not one, but TWO, upcoming live performances! Way back in 2005, Drag City introduced his 1974 psych-folk classic, the previously privately pressed Red Hash, to listeners around the world. The world has never been the same, as we were all acutely touched by Gary's carefully-arranged, darkly utopian songs - songs that proved an inspiration for many, including some of our very own sons of darkness, like Six Organs of Admittance. Red Hash has been widely recognized over the past decade as a classic of its time, and its resurgence kept Gary busy traveling through the cosmos and releasing more righteous tunes: new material in Seconds., and more from the vault in A Dream A While Back.
Despite all that activity, Higgins live performances have been rare. So with two shows on the horizon, it goes without saying but we're going to say it anyway: this is a BIG DEAL! Adding icing to the cake, these shows will feature a set byGary's old band, Random Concept, as well! Catch the mythical man NOW, East Coasters!
7/20/16 at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn, NY*7/26/16 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT^ *w/ Ed Askew Band and Calvin LeCompte^ w/ Random Concept
― dow, Saturday, 16 July 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link
Portland Psych Fest is coming up. Any of these bands I oughta pay special attention to? Lemme know! I pretty much only know The Asteroid #4, and I remember Plastic Crimewave on an old Arthur Magazine comp, but maybe that was a different Plastic Crimewave or something?
SpindriftLSD & The Search For God The Asteroid #4Cambrian ExplosionPlastic Crimewave SyndicateThe Spiral ElectricHawkeyeZozmaThe Young EldersThe VeldtLematHi HazelDown Dirty ShakeJackson BooneZodiac Death ValleySan DbabesMosquitoHowler
― alpine static, Monday, 18 July 2016 09:27 (seven years ago) link
In a gentler freak folk vein, I love the last record from Mori Wa Ikiteru, called Good Night on P_Vine records out of Japan.
https://soundcloud.com/mori_wa_ikiteiru/surigarasu
― MaresNest, Monday, 18 July 2016 09:37 (seven years ago) link
thread playlist is updated.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 21 July 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
I like this Banquet album okay. Very self-consciously San Franciscan, with the vocals esp. I detect traces of the influence of bands like Mad River and Jefferson Starship
banquetsf.bandcamp.com/album/jupiter-rose
― mark e smith and brexit (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 21 July 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
Am enjoying the 2014 & 2016 albums by The Murlocs.
love the sound. very stylish almost ethereal psych country soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMpowXZB9L0
― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 23 July 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
That's very nice!
― calstars, Saturday, 23 July 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
Wow, Young Blindness is choons plus, thanks for this!
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Sunday, 24 July 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Sonafa... such a bummer when I find out a band had come all the way from Chicago and played my hometown before I was aware of 'em. The Murlocs toured the U.S. in May.
I did catch The Mystery Lights and Night Beats a couple nights ago, a perfect, sweaty evening of garage noir! I've been digging the Mystery Lights debut, who have been around a while, migrating from Cali to NY. In a recent interview they namechecked the Voidoids as another influence, and I wish I heard more of that, but they're still promising. Night Beats were really smokin. They've got the live energy down. They inherit a bit of the spirit of Cramps and Gun Club, plus some groove.
http://media.digitalphotogallery.com/jbrfybykbmyj/images/c7c26d46-c5b5-11e5-9701-cea02bb2ca2c/night_beats105_website_index_qiao_standard.jpg%3F20160128115355
https://themurlocs.bandcamp.com/https://nightbeats.bandcamp.com/https://themysterylights.bandcamp.com/album/the-mystery-lights
I also highly recommend the French band Os Noctàmbulos, who just released their second album Stranger last month. They've got the garage noir thing plus some surf guitar.
https://osnoctambulos.bandcamp.com/
Don't forget the latest Lola Colt, which is amazing. My recap: http://fastnbulbous.com/second-quarter-rundown-2016/
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 25 July 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
same plastic crimewave iirc? dude is still out and about
the veldt is a blast from the past though -- didn't know they were still around
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 25 July 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
xp I meant all the way from Australia to Chicago. Wasn't fully awake yet.
I chatted with Steve Krakow of Plastic Crimewave earlier in the year when he gave a reading/Q&A about his book My Kind of Sound: The Secret History of Chicago Music. Great book, great guy who's done a lot of good for the music scene.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 25 July 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Oh yeah, Krakow's buddies with Numero, think he's done some podcasts or other commentary for them; I know there have been live events, panels and stuff. Also a couple of albums on bandcamp; here's Wire blurb for their self-titled:"Now's the time to drink deeply from the grail of psych, for its bearers Plastic Crimewave Syndicate are among us once more. From the splatter vinyl to the extra-heavy cardboard sleeve, Crimewave leader Steve Krakow knows how to recast the spell of psych's golden hour. Such obsessive detail is behind his Galactic Zoo Dossler magazine and in every fuzz-fierce and echo-soaked riff on this new self-titled LP. The music, however, is far from being revivalist or a mere pastiche of past glories. These six heavy and transcendental compositions channel inspiration in a way akin to Loop, Terminal Cheesecake or even Skullflower on a track like "Void 0f Eternity". lt's a double pleasure of the old and new. Now, are you ready to dream the dream - or ride the nightmare?" - Wirereleased December 1, 2015 The 2013 album, Cage of Gold, has guests from Comus.
― dow, Monday, 25 July 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
And speak of the devil---this just in [Drag City News prosody approaching, adjust shades]
AT THE 'ZOOSo then, for the month of July, the darkly psychedelic electro-acoustic love-light of Faun Fables. But what to accompany these complex yet elemental vibrations into the public eye? Actually, the Drag City deck is STACKED with appropriate companions - but since Plastic Crimewave finished the new ish of the Galactic Zoo Dossier, what REALLY might be more perfect? Since the GZD (as we sometimes call it when we want to save time that we then waste by explaining what we are doing by abbreviating it) is all about the preservation and promotion of the superiority of former cultures that remain present and influential in our otherwise thoroughly-changed landscape today, which if you think about it is right on a similar line as the folks in Faun Fables, with tantalizingly different results! And hey, speaking of the Galactic Zoo Dossier, it's high time (hyuk) there was a new issue - nearly five years since last heard from, almost the same scenario as Faun Fables! The difference is, Steve "Plastic Crimewave" Krakow is also a curating-crazy DJ, columnist, musician and label-head whose GZD Disk imprint has issued vintage material from Sandy Bull, Tony Caro and John, The George-Edwards Group, Michael Yonkers and Midnight in the time elapsed since the last 'Zoo Dossier. This has kept Galactic Zoo's consciousness alive (along with available copies of the past two issues! - step-right-up ed.) right up until the crucial moment of NOW. Worth the wait is GZD #10, organized by your addled editor as "The Interview Issue" as well as a "20th Anniversary Special"! With over 150 pages of hand-written and drawn ravings of pure, uncut fandom from not only Mr. Crimewave, but also esteemed contributors George Hansen, Gareth Goddard, Frankie Delmane, Robert Jaz, Tom Szidon, Dawn Aquarius and a handful of others, Galactic Zoo Dossier #10 is packed with psyched-out oddments from The Wonderful World of Comics as well as advertisements, articles and other ephemera from the silver age of rock and roll (60s and 70s, yo!). And didn't we mention interviews? Oh yeah - spoken with are living legends Arthur Brown, Edgar Broughton, Shirley Collins, Richard Pinhas, Max Ochs, Michael Chapman, and MANY others! PLUS pieces on Biker Movie Soundtrax! The Insect Trust! Circus Maximus! Space Rock! And of course, Unicorns! All of it penned, xeroxed, photographed, cut and pasted in grand zine fashion! Forgive us if you've heard this one before, but: Galactic Zoo Dossier - they're not the best at what they do, they're the ONLY ONES at what they do!
― dow, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
Here's my second annual Psychedelic Psummer piece:
Psychedelic Psummer: Return to the Dark Sidehttp://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/psychedelic-psummer-return.png
Includes: Lola Colt, Os Noctàmbulos, Thee Oh Sees, Levitation Room, Kikagaku Moyo, Night Beats, The Murlocs, The Mystery Lights, Doug Tuttle, Salem's Pot, Comet Control, Mythic Sunship, Electric Eye, Elkhorn, Heron Oblivion, Mondo Drag, Dead Coast, Heaters, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Holy Wave, Psychic Ills, Sunflower Bean
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 15 August 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
Awesome. I always look forward to hearing some new stuff fnb.
― calstars, Monday, 15 August 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
i am enjoying this new horseback album but the vocals on "the lion killer" are a little distracting before they turn wordless. totally dig the music.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
Lol @ Salem's Pot
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:38 (seven years ago) link
love this teaser for the new Daniel Bachman: https://youtu.be/KOhpR4apQIM
― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link
Cosmic Dead are playing here tomorrow and I can't go. ;_; I've listened to black rabbit at like 12 several times today.
― wishy washy hippy variety hour (Hunt3r), Friday, 19 August 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, August 16, 2016 3:28 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Was coming here to post about this album too. I really dig it. Have not listened to any prior Horseback, but I gather that earlier stuff was more metal. This is more spacey, explicitly indebted to This Heat and the like. Good interview here by one Ned Raggett:
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/horseback-dead-ringers-interview-premiere
― Mike Pence shakes his head and mouths the word ‘no’ (tipsy mothra), Monday, 22 August 2016 15:33 (seven years ago) link
And I agree that the vocals are the weakest point, but they don't really bother me.
― Mike Pence shakes his head and mouths the word ‘no’ (tipsy mothra), Monday, 22 August 2016 15:34 (seven years ago) link
Playlist updated for August.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
I didn't cover everything I wanted to on my recent roundup, didn't come across any streams or anything of the two Elektrohasch bands so I didn't get to hear them until the actual CDs arrived from All That Is Heavy.
Bonus PsychMorgan Delt, The Winstons, Sir Robin & The Longbowmen, Hidden Trails, Saturnia, The Spacelords, The Myrrors, Atomikylähttp://fastnbulbous.com/bonus-psych-morgan-delt-the-winstons-sir-robin-the-longbowmen-more/
http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bonus-psych-2016.jpg
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 29 August 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
News from Northern Spy's Adam D.:
As tempting as it was to make this press release look like a Hausu Mountain newsletter, I'm not going to go all 'Comic Sans' on you. With that said, we at Northern Spy Records love cassettes and we love cassette labels like the aforementioned Hausu Mountain and NNA Tapes to name only a couple. We've released a few tapes ourselves featuring artists like Weyes Blood, Angels in America, Jason Lescalleet, Arthur Doyle, Bonnie Jones, etc. But we've never released a batch all at once. This is something I've wanted to do since founding the label.
Each of these albums have made a big impact on us at Northern Spy. It's an honor to have them on the label, to present them to the world. Hopefully you dig!
Friends of the label, please see below for THREE full-length albums which will be available in stores on Cassette Store Day on October 8th and digital service providers everywhere on October 14th.http://cassettestoreday.com/
Between them, British folk phantasms Padang Food Tigers (Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady) and Norwegian harmonium player Sigbjørn Apeland have recorded for illustrious imprints such as ECM, Hubro, Bathetic, Scissor Tail and Blackest Rainbow. These past offerings are engrained with a rich devotion to various branches of traditional composition – church music, country and folk – yet seek to dissemble those well-worn forms under the aegis of extemporisation. Both parties are collating a formidable canon of après organic ambient, venturing beyond the all-prevailing placebos tailored by so many sleep-starved somnambulists. These guys offer up genuine alternate atmospheres with an emotional pastoralism that speaks with a deep heartfelt feeling, undeniably immediate and open. Theirs is a music inviting, or rather insisting, upon a listener’s self-projections – aimed inward towards the soul, outward in boundless leaps of imagination.
Bumblin’ Creed, this collaborative venture for Northern Spy, finds these kindred spirits revelling in their new-found alliances. A shared vision now bears its artistic fruit, borne of an unshakeable belief in the beauty of the passing moment and the intrinsic need to harness precious seconds in the slow-motion passing of a reductionist blues, a child’s plaintive plea or the creak of an old wooden chair (listen, you’ll hear it). In theory it can get pretty Cageian, in reality the academy never gets a look in. The nine pieces on this highly-emotive suite – each built up from an embryonic kernel ceded by Apeland or the Tigers and developed in cherished association – seduces the space between every well-judged note, while hanging on their ebbing word. Tones react to the muttering of memory and recollection (before vanishing, lost forever), or to the artist’s respective environments (a picturesque Norwegian village, a lost river found buried at the end of a suburban garden, a stone sphinx blanketed in snow watching over the relics of a crystal citadel).
As influenced by Messiaen’s ecclesiastical organ works as Uncle Tupelo’s last round of alt.country cuts, as energised by the non-idiomatic innovations of Derek Bailey as the Delta deviations of Loren Connors, Bumblin’ Creed is an extraordinary piece of enchantment that ranks right up there alongside the best material these guys ever produced, a slow-motion country crawl, the soundtrack to your spiritual baptism: listen close, and be born all over again. http://padangfoodtigers.bandcamp.com/album/bumblin-creed
Liberty Ashes is an exercise in not only deliberation but also impulse. Side A ("Liberty Ashes") and Side B ("Aria for the Surveillance State") act as inverse of each other, sharing similar three-movement structure. A is the more deliberate, ecstatic piece, its hulking movement arranged for the appearance of the State Street Singers men's choir, led by Matt Morello. Ferocious wormhole guitars and irascible walls of drums weave in and out of the Latin incantations of the choir, producing a bliss both pineal and cerebral. Side B focuses more on chance--the composition builds around blooming synth pads and wanderlust guitars before dropping into synthetic percussion, processed into oblivion. By the end of the piece, vocals lace the ambient washes of the keys and guitars, again achieving a bliss--this one subliminal. The contrast between the two sides of Liberty Ashes is stark, but the spirit is similar. The music comes fast and easy, both seamless and sawtooth, sacred and profane. It's a record built toward the end of post-modernity, exploring dichotomies of loud/quiet, space/occupation, light/dark, and free/unfree. Liberty Ashes refers to the remnants of an ideology, that deliberation and impulse together lead to something more sustainable than either on their own. http://horseloverfats.bandcamp.com/album/liberty-ashes
Mojave Interlude was realized, recorded and edited from August 2006 - November 2015, in various locations between North Carolina and California. The majority of the music was created with a wide array of percussion instruments, utilizing a variety of techniques, and processed with analog and digital electronics. Additional instruments and found sounds were added under my own direction and/or editing. In 2013, a live-mix version of this music was assembled to accompany the dance piece I am Come For You, choreographed by Carson Efird, at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA and at White Wave in Brooklyn, NY.http://jwesterlund.bandcamp.com/album/mojave-interlude
― dow, Friday, 2 September 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
All I care about is when Elder's next release is
― calstars, Saturday, 3 September 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
Cough - Still They Pray
Egypt and Wasted Theory, two great bands with seriously amazing albums occupying the Number 6 position. But at Number 5 we find only one and one alone. For after Number 6 come the serious jumps. Before this spot, every position we moved up was with one point, five points, a few more or even twenty five. But now, we make a gigantic leap of a hundred and fifteen points. That’s right, everyone in the top five was voted miles ahead of the rest of the field by 76 sent in lists. 76 of you lovely freaks out there thought the 21 albums we already visited were the finest of the fine. But all of you, who voted, reckoned the following were even better! So... Six years had passed since their former album. This one being a meticulous deconstruction of their feedback driven melodies. No hope on the horizon, just an endless barrage of pessimistic riffs and tortured grooves. Yes, mostly low tempo, high distortion terrorism. Drugged out thrash and warbled blues odes. Bone chilling, hair raising and blood curdling. And even if there is no hope left and no green light on the horizon… Still, they pray…
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Call moonship journey to baja; Egypt placed
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 23:34 (seven years ago) link
4 Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management
As mentioned when we showed Cough on Number 5, every one of the bands we now encounter got way more votes than the rest below. So we jump another fifty points to reach the next cats. A band I saw live this year in a setting you would not quite believe. Okay, so it was right after Roadburn. That might explain part of it. Okay, it was in my birth town, a dusty hell hole in the south of the Netherlands. But still… Well, besides their own friends, relatives and crew, there were about five to ten people in the audience. Incredible. We pulled up barstools and set tables in front of the stage and settled down for a night filled with a truckload of beer and a band that was allowed to do whatever they wanted. And they did. With a vocalist suffering from some throat issues, they still managed to enchant and make those few freaks sitting on their stools go crazy. With their heavy nodding to Sabbath, their version of doom metal, doom rock and occult sounding heavy rock and stoner curveballs they made the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown before. Number 16 back in 2013. But this one is so much better than that debut effort, we can surely say the Devil visited Sweden again to gather up a few new souls. And we can pretty much state with conviction that he is now the new manager of this heavy quartet!
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 29 December 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
3 Asteroid – III
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2016/12/number-3.html
We enter the Top 3 by jumping twenty six points from Goatess on Number 4. The bronze medal so to speak. And ofcourse, the album title also hints at the third position, so it is, once again, a fine example of poetic justice. It is also a fine example of a highly natural take on a space rock adventure that has only a tiny amount of cosmic radiation glowing over all that psychedelic goodness, stoner trucking and seventies fuzz extraordinaire. In fact, that voidian sounds could also be attributed to the progressive nature of all the compositions. Or as Tony Van Dorston of Fast N Bulbous stated on the Doom Charts, where they were a definite fixture for a couple of months straight: “They revel in the natural sounds of their instruments, letting the bass and drum interplay flow with a virtuosic groove that has more in common with the most accomplished classic rock than scruffy underground fuzz heads. They sparingly unleash the fuzz effects, most notably on ‘Wolf & Snake,’ giving me a fond flashback to Sungrazer. The album ends with a bang with “Mr. Strange,” chock full of changes from guitar harmonies to space jams and “whoa whoa” vocals. The record should seal the trio’s spot in the top tier of heavy rock bands, not just in Sweden, but the world.” And we simply could not agree more. A definite spot among the top tier in the world and a definite spot among the best records in my house. So, on the Third Spot on The Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2016 we find…
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 30 December 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
free In Gowan Ring release ( I think it's a sampler?)
https://ingowanring.bandcamp.com/album/compendium-2016-free-download
― sleeve, Friday, 30 December 2016 22:14 (seven years ago) link
I know its way late in the game, and this album came out in Jan. but holy ctap this Haikai No Ku album is the business! On some kind of Loop-meets-Goslings tip!
https://haikainoku.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-infinity
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 02:10 (seven years ago) link
Ok lol it's not streaming there
https://youtu.be/Z_nP1VHQIi8
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 02:35 (seven years ago) link
Doom Charts Best of 2016
https://doomcharts.com/2016/12/31/best-of-2016/
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
A snide dig at the current state of the world. But that is all you will get from us here. For you have come to the right place, acolytes of the Apocalypse. This is Doom Charts, a global collective of bloggers, journalists, album reviewers, podcasters and radio show hosts with their fingers on the pulse of the heavy underground. Each month, our fellow heavy rock fiends submit their picks for the best new doom, sludge, metal, stoner and psychedelic rock albums. The results are compiled and tabulated into a chart. This month however they’ve sent their top picks of the entire doomed year of 2016. Yes, the Doom Charts have a final say about all those great albums released in the twelve past months…
First off we thank all the bands for releasing all that great music we find on the list and we say thanks for the ones that delivered equally impressive music that unfortunately just fell short of making this final Doom Chart list. Secondly, a thanks goes out to everyone working on the chart and everyone out there keeping the underground scene so vibrant. That means you, you silly bugger reading this. For everyone buying the records, cd’s, downloads, shirts, visiting the festivals and concerts, and wanting more of that good stuff over and over makes sure this thing we’ve got here can grow and continue to blossom into the most beautiful monster it can be…
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
https://boxrecordsshop.bandcamp.com/album/temporary-infinity
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:51 (seven years ago) link
2 1000Mods – Repeated Exposure To...
http://stonerhive.blogspot.nl/2016/12/number-2.html
nd now we jump another forty-seven points for the Silver Medal on Number 2. Indeed, forty-seven points to reach they sun bleached tones and dried out fuzz. A band that made the 13th position of the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown of 2011 with their soundtrack to a super vacation. This one exposes your over and over to a truckload of fantastic riffs, fine arcs, vistas and unquestionable good hooks. Every one of the eight tracks on this record are filled to the brim with those amazing riffs and hooks, interspersed here and there with some psychedelic freak outs, bluesy solos or droning guitars. Add to this the wild bass work and intense drumming and we have a legendary album in the making. And if that isn’t enough to fulfill that prophecy we have vocal lines that are exactly, smack dab, in the middle of the mix and precisely right. Some might claim that continuous, repetitive contact with music and message could be viewed as brainwashing and mind control. Well, I don’t believe that. I do believe in this quartet. Completely and utterly! “We are the Gods, the kings of nowhere…” They are Gods alright. Greek gods, and we will worship them as they rightfully should be. By everyone!
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 December 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
(Hey thx fnb for finding that link)
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 31 December 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
1 Greenleaf – Rise Above The Meadow
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There can be only one. A 1000Mods stood firm on Second Place. But to reach our Gold Medalist, the Numero Uno, the one true legendary album of 2016, we almost have to double the amount of points of the 1000Mods album Repeated Exposure To… Incredible! And something I had not expected. Not because of some form of doubt about this album or this band. Cause they were ofcourse also present on the Countdown before, on Number 9 back in 2014 and Number 14 in 2012. But because there were so many great albums released this year. I reckoned the field would have been much closer together. I, have to say, to some shame perhaps, that I had not recognized the status and amazing beauty of this album. In former years I knew, as everyone probably did, that Elder would win. Or Wo Fat or even Electric Wizard. But while I kept listening to this album over and over and enjoying every freaking riff and moment of it. I had not recognized it’s true quality. I do now. And it will continue to be pure energy for me from this moment on. Righteous fuel. And I need fuel. I am a serious consumer. And I am a firm believer, that on some nights, when the moon is full, and the animals are on the prowl, a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles with the right kind of music very loud on the radio… And yes, this album will make it run even faster and even further…
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 January 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link
Stoner Hive
1. Greenleaf - Rise Above The Meadow2. 1000mods – Repeated Exposure To…3. Asteroid – III4. Goatess – Purgatory Under New Management5. COUGH – Still They Pray6. Egypt - Doom – Endless Flight & Wasted Theory – Defenders Of The Riff7. Witchcraft – Nucleus8. Wo Fat – Midnight Cometh9. DUNSMUIR – Dunsmuir10. Sinister Haze – Laid Low in the Dust of Death & Geezer – Geezer11. Wretch – Wretch12. Holy Serpent – Temples & Curse the Son – Isolator13. Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil14. Truckfighters– V & Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree15. Gojira – Magma & BLACK RAINBOWS – Stellar Prophecy16. Baby Woodrose – Freedom & Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)17. Mos Generator – Abyssinia18. Baroness – Purple19. Komatsu – Recipe For Murder One20. The Re-Stoned – Reptiles Return
Doom Charts
1. ASTEROID – III2. WO FAT – MIDNIGHT COMETH3. COUGH – STILL THEY PRAY4. ELEPHANT TREE – ELEPHANT TREE5. GEEZER – GEEZER6. BRANT BJORK – TAO OF THE DEVIL7. WITCHCRAFT – NUCLEUS8. GREENLEAF – RISE ABOVE THE MEADOW9. YEAR OF THE COBRA – IN THE SHADOWS BELOW10. VOKONIS – OLDE ONE ASCENDING11. WRETCH – WRETCH12. BORRACHO – ATACAMA13. BRIMSTONE COVEN – BLACK MAGIC14. SLOMATICS – FUTURE ECHO RETURNS15. CONAN – REVENGEANCE16. YOUNGBLOOD SUPERCULT – HIGH PLAINS17. BABY WOODROSE – FREEDOM18. GOATESS – PURGATORY UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT19. GOZU – REVIVAL20. SVVAMP – SVVAMP21. SLABDRAGGER – RISE OF THE DAWNCRUSHER22. LA CHINGA – FREEWHEELIN23. DOMKRAFT – THE END OF ELECTRICITY24. MAMMOTH WEED WIZARD BASTARD – Y PROFFWYD DWYLL25. KING BUFFALO – ORION26. FOGHOUND – THE WORLD UNSEEN27. TRUCKFIGHTERS – V28. WITCHTHROAT SERPENT – SANG-DRAGON29. MOS GENERATOR – ABYSSINIA30. HOWLING GIANT – BLACK HOLE SPACE WIZARD PART 131. MARS RED SKY – APEX III (Praise for the Burning Soul) 32. WASTED THEORY – DEFENDERS OF THE RIFF33. MEPHISTOFELES – WHORE34. DEMONAUTA – TIERRA DEL FUEGO35. 1000MODS – REPEATED EXPOSURE TO…36. BEASTMAKER – LUSUS NATURAE37. LORD VAPOUR – MILL STREET BLUES38. SALEM’S POT – PRONOUNCE THIS!39. CHURCH OF MISERY – AND THEN THERE WERE NONE…40. KHEMMIS – HUNTED41. DUNSMUIR – DUNSMUIR42. OLD BLOOD – OLD BLOOD43. FIRE DOWN BELOW – VIPER VIXEN GODDESS SAINT44. BUS – THE UNKNOWN SECRETARY45. LIMESTONE WHALE – LIMESTONE WHALE46. CHILD – BLUESIDE47. SINISTER HAZE – LAID LOW IN THE DUST OF DEATH48. AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED – ARC49. TROLL – TROLL50. THE HAZYTONES – THE HAZYTONES
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Obelisk Readershttp://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2017/01/01/the-top-20-of-2016-year-end-poll-results/
1. Wo Fat, Midnight Cometh (375 points)2. Greenleaf, Rise Above the Meadow (368)3. Elephant Tree, Elephant Tree (324)4. Asteroid, III (302)5. Brant Bjork, Tao of the Devil (295)6. Gozu, Revival (274)7. Neurosis, Fires Within Fires (253)8. King Buffalo, Orion (244)9. Mars Red Sky, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul) (238)10. Conan, Revengeance (232)11. Cough, Still They Pray (228)12. Holy Grove, Holy Grove (218)13. SubRosa, For this We Fought the Battle of Ages (213)14. Truckfighters, V (206)15. Blood Ceremony, Lord of Misrule (200)16. Khemmis, Hunted (192)16. Red Fang, Only Ghosts (192)17. Inter Arma, Paradise Gallows (181)18. Witchcraft, Nucleus (174)19. Opeth, Sorceress (173)20. Church of Misery, And then there Were None (159)
Honorable mention to:Causa Sui, Return to Sky (157)Goatess, II: Purgatory Under New Management (157)Black Mountain, IV (148)Mos Generator, Abyssinia (144)Wretch, Wretch (140)
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 1 January 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Man I need to listen to this Greenleaf album. I still really love this song of theirs from 2012.
https://youtu.be/mK99nLljBEE
― U2 (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 1 January 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
11 Wretch - Wretch
A band that names itself after the first album of the band that started everything has some gigantic balls. Yes, we just assume they did that.
I assumed it was because the last GoS album was called The Wretch.
― 𝐌𝐀𝐁-BAM-O BAM A – 𝐔𝐒-H US SEIN-U.S.-UNITED STATES (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 4 January 2017 02:51 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is finalized; added several of those playlists though not all. Lots to listen to tho!
ILM'S Rolling Stoner-Psych Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Tuesday, 14 February 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link