Ingest All Deliriants at the Door: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Rock Thread 2016

Cosmic Dead are playing here tomorrow and I can't go. ;_; I've listened to black rabbit at like 12 several times today.

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, 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

And I agree that the vocals are the weakest point, but they don't really bother me.

Playlist updated for August.

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 Psych
Morgan Delt, The Winstons, Sir Robin & The Longbowmen, Hidden Trails, Saturnia, The Spacelords, The Myrrors, Atomikylä
http://fastnbulbous.com/bonus-psych-morgan-delt-the-winstons-sir-robin-the-longbowmen-more/

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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

All I care about is when Elder's next release is

Haven't listened yet, just came across prev. uncollected film and theater commissions, composed and performed by Comus bassist (these are all billed as solo ARP instrumentals):
ndyhellaby.bandcamp.com/album/sound-portraits

oops sorry http://andyhellaby.bandcamp.com/album/sound-portraits

xxxpost Elder was absolutely fucking mind-blowing at Psycho Las Vegas. so good I bought the only shirt they had left even though it was XXXL, haha.

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

this showed up on my Spotify recommended and I'm digging it pretty hard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPqhB2H-DeU

another good one. the UK's been putting out some quality psych lately.

another xpost Galactic Zoo Dossier happening:

COME PARTY WITH GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER AT SOCCER CLUB CLUB

GALACTIC ZOO DOSSIER: A RETROSPECTIVE
October 1st - October 7th
Soccer Club Club
2923 N. Cicero Ave
Chicago, IL 60641
312-455-1015
soccerclubclub.com
For the first time, a showing of original art from the famed hand-drawn psychedelic magazine will be exhibited to the public! The Galactic Zoo Dossier is a hand drawn psychedelic magazine occasional going since 1995, created by Plastic Crimewave, and has been published by Drag City since 2001. Issues come with a CD or cassette compilation of rare sounds and trading card sets of damaged guitar gods and astral folk maidens. Interview subjects have included Vashti Bunyan, Arthur Brown and Edgar Broughton!
OPENING RECEPTION ON OCTOBER 1ST
7PM-11 PM
Featuring art by Plastic Crimewave aka Steve Krakow, Leslie Stein (Fantagraphics/Vice) and Tom Szidon
DJs Psychedalex and Moe Madness will be spinning records
Musical performance by 70s electronic pioneers VCSR!

Come celebrate Plastic and Moe's birthdays and check out the new heady barbarian comic book "Visions of the Weird Unknown" by Plastic Crimewave and Lane Milburn (Fantagraphics)
Soccer Club Club is an exhibition and performance space owned and operated by Drag City and located in an intact private bar built by a former Polish soccer star.

Playlist updated for September.

thank u

John Dyer Baizley is curating Roadburn, Coven are reuniting for it, as are Warning. Not a bad start.

Some cool psych/garage noir/post-punk hybrids:

Suns Of Thyme - Cascades (Napalm)
Bonfire Nights - Entopica Phenomica
https://bonfirenights.bandcamp.com/album/entopica-phenomica

Really looking forward to the upcoming Syd Arthur and Wolf People albums. Syd Arthur was my favorite performance at Riot Fest, and there were only like 30 people at their stage (they were overlapping with Sleater-Kinney & Misfits, doh!).

sat behind a guy from Acid Witch at a screening/live score of The Beyond last night and he was describing Zombi's set at Psycho Las Vegas and it sounded amazing -- he said they put speakers in/near the pool so the water was ripping with the music. A+ eavesdropping

A little catchup with stuff I've covered:

Truckfighters – V (Century Media)
The Lucid Dream – Compulsion Songs (Holy How Are You)
Goat – Requiem (Sub Pop)
Anciients – Voice Of The Void (Season Of Mist)
40 Watt Sun – Wider Than The Sky (Radiance)
The Well – Pagan Science (RidingEasy)
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Mirage (Rocket)

I have reviews in the pipeline for these:

Syd Arthur - Apricity
Asteroid - III
Wolf People - Ruins

Possibly Pelander, if I can actually hear it before Friday. Other interesting upcoming albusm, Khemmis, Wardruna, Madder Mortem and Crippled Black Phoenix.

Khemmis album is a BEAST

Yas! I saw Decibel gave Khemmis - Hunted a feature review. It's out Friday but looks like they released it on Bandcamp last night: http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/hunted-2. They're touring in January. Still waiting for their 20 Buck Spin labelmates Magic Circle to do a proper tour.

When I saw that my Doom Chart brethren already voted for Asteroid in for October I wrote the blurb for it on https://doomcharts.com/2016/10/11/the-doom-charts-for-october-2016/

been searching for more of the kind of psych that I'm into and I found great success w/Sky Lantern Records, the label that released Kikagaku Moyo's Mammatus Clouds in 2014 https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/

dope visual aesthetic

I like Dead Sea Apes and Eternal Tapestry, will need to check out some of the others. Cardinal Fuzz has some things too.

like that khemmis

wow, yeah, that Sky Lantern Bandcamp is beautiful!

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

Is there anything new out there like this? I love this style of psych. I hoped it would become kind-of a thing

There's hardly a shortage of jammy space rock. No one tries to copy another, but there's similarities with The Spacelords, Mugstar, Mythic Sunship, The Oscillation, Sendelica, Seven That Spells, Blown Out, Sungod, Earthless, Causa Sui, Sula Bassana, Electric Moon, Electric Octopus, My Brother The Wind, Øresund Space Collective, My Sleeping Karma, Lüger, Hills, Gnod, The Cosmic Dead, Electric Eye, Pyramidal, 3rd Ear Experience, Radar Men From the Moon, Monomyth, Farflung, Psicomagia, Yuri Gagarin and many more.

Just started on the Spacelords, this is good stuff. Thanks for the recommendations

okay, so with that in mind, the playlist is updated for October. 94 songs, 11 hours, lots of freaky shit mannnnnnnnnn

ILM's Rolling Stoner-Psych Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist

Norway's Madder Mortem has been messing with variations of avant prog and doom metal (plus extra witchy goth) for 23 years, and on the new one I noticed similarities with the recent psych noir of Jess & the Ancient Ones, Purson and Blood Ceremony.

Madder Mortem – Red In Tooth And Claw (Dark Essence/Karisma)

People seem enamored by Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard. I go back and forth. I like the mix of cosmic space sludge tones and wispy 4AD proto-goth stylings, but feel they have a ways to go to construct more engaging choons.

https://newheavysounds.bandcamp.com/album/y-proffwyd-dwyll

I like the latest from fellow UK stoner doomsters Spider Kitten:
https://spiderkitten.bandcamp.com/album/ark-of-octofelis

mammoth weed wizard bastard is pretty cool, too bad they went to the sleepytime gorilla museum school for naming your band something stupid that makes me never want to listen

been searching for more of the kind of psych that I'm into and I found great success w/Sky Lantern Records, the label that released Kikagaku Moyo's Mammatus Clouds in 2014 https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/

― esempiu (crüt), Wednesday, October 19, 2016 11:44 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the track featured on here is some good stuff: https://skylanternrecords.bandcamp.com/album/strange-pleasures

Yes! I dig Dreamtime's past couple albums from 2011 & 13, looking forward to it, out on Dec. 2.

Asteroid – III (Fuzzorama) - out next week

Tomorrow I see Electric Citizen and Horisont, looking forward to it.

Wolf People - Ruins (Jagjaguwar) out tomorrow. Another contender for my album of the year.

After saying they won't release their album until their 10 year anniversary in 2017, Spirits Of The Dead put up an enigmatic image and video that just says, "11.11" I can only guess it means a release date, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up.

Most of the blogs come out with their lists later in December. I prefer to get mine done by the 2nd week of December -- any recommendations for albums not yet mentioned on this thread?

One album I sort of forgot about is this:

Hexvessel - When We Are Death. Finnish folk psych band goes in a more 60s garage psych direction.

So I've been listening to this on Spotify:

https://purplepyramid.bandcamp.com/album/space-rock-an-interstellar-traveler-s-guide

And its pretty fun! But is it the best comp to start with space rock? There's lots of acts that don't seem to fit the mold or tracks that aren't the best choice.

Lol William Shatner. Yeah, that's a bit all over the place. However it's the first space rock comp I've seen, so I couldn't say.

So no albums to throw in the listening pool for best of 2016?

I've been meaning to make time to sit down with this year's releases from Camera and The Oscillation but haven't been able to yet.

The new Warlocks is pretty dull, but the first track is the kind of thing I could listen to all day:
https://thewarlocks.bandcamp.com/track/only-you-2

Whoa, just read that Sun Dial have a new record out! Didn't realize they were still around. Only saw this minutes ago but if I were the list-making type I'd want to hear it before making one.

Only clip I've found so far:
www.soundcloud.com/sulatron/sun-dial-regenerator

playlist is updated.

You might want to update that playlist one more time, lots of stuff to discover here from my man Simon Delic (though half aren't on Spotify): http://www.backseatmafia.com/2016/11/25/psych-insight-25-essential-psych-albums-2016/

25 Essential Psych Albums 2016 (presented here in no order or preference)

Stockholm Maraton by Kungens Män (Adansonia Records)
Helios Rising by Moths and Locusts (NoiseAgonyMayhem Records/ Sunmask Records)
The Hermit by Surya Kris Peters (Electric Magic Records)
Soy Dios by Dead Sea Apes (Cardinal Fuzz/ Sky Lantern Records)
Lost Chants/ Last Chance by Kandodo/ McBain (Rooster Rock Records)
Black Hill Transmitter by Black Hill Transmitter (FSOL)
House In The Tall Grass by Kikagaku Moyo (GuruGuru Brain Records)
Heron Oblivion by Heron Oblivion (Sub Pop Records)
In God’s Creation by Nudity (Cardinal Fuzz)
Karma Suture by Fungal Abyss (Adansonia Records)
KURO by KURO (Rocket Recordings)
Phantom of Liberty by Camera (Bureau B)
Ouroboros by Mythic Sunship (El Paraiso Records)
Zement: Werk by Zement (Sunhair Records)
Phantamonium by Hotel Wrecking City Traders (Evil Hoodoo)
Magnetic North by Vert:x/ Dead Sea Apes/ Blown Out/ Earthling Society (Drone Rock Records)
Monographic by The Oscillation (All Time Low Records/ Hands in the Dark Records)
Moral Machine by Colonel Petrov’s Good Judgement (Moral Machine Records)
Magnetic Seasons by Mugstar (Rock Action Records)
JuJu by JuJu (Sunrise Ocean Bender)
Mantra Music by Megaritual (White Dwarf Rock)
The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol Box Set (Birdman Sound Records/ Cardinal Fuzz)
Body Cults by Narcosatanicos (Bad Afro Records)
Entranced Earth by Myrrors (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)
Strange Pleasures by Dreamtime (Cardinal Fuzz/ Sky Lantern Records/ TYM Guitars)

will come back to all this in the end o' year round up!

New Gulp single (Guto Pryce from SFA and Lindsey Leven) produced by Luke Abbott.

https://soundcloud.com/e-l-k-1/gulp-search-for-your-love

Drone: http://antigravitybunny.com/?p=10849

Fester's Lucky 13: 2016 Year-End Summary
http://fastnbulbous.com/lucky-16/

Top 100 Albums of 2016 | Spotify Mix | 2016 Breakdown: Genre Lists | Shows, Videos | Movies, Television, Books & Comics

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The last I heard of Arthur Brown, around the turn of the century, he was a music therapist in Austin. Reportedly, he wrote songs with clients.

THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN Announces First US Tour In Nearly Five Decades

After a highlight performance at Psycho Las Vegas 2016, hugely influential UK heavy psychedelic progressive eccentrics THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN announces their 2017 Zim Zam Zim tour marking their first run of live performances since 1969.

The God Of Hellfire himself, Arthur Brown, will be celebrating fifty years since releasing the debut single "Devil's Grip," which helped shape the British and worldwide psychedelic movement. Pushing theatrics to their dystopian hellscape limits would earn Brown acolytes in everyone from David Bowie and Alice Cooper to Kiss, Marilyn Manson, and Lady Gaga to the entire genre of black metal, and his influence continues to spread today.

"The last time I toured the US with THE CRAZY WORLD was early 1969," Brown confirms. "It was our third tour there. At the time, the band had been headlining massive festivals, alongside Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Jefferson Airplane, and other top attractions of the time. Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper were still only mildly famous, somewhere down the bill."

Zim Zam Zim takes its name from THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN's latest album, released in 2014. They'll be joined on this landmark trip by Ohio rockers Electric Citizen, and shows will feature generational sonic offspring like White Hills, Acid King, Pallbearer, Danava, and Jex Thoth.

Psycho Entertainment Presents:
THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN w/ Electric Citizen:
2/15/2017 Regent Theater - Los Angeles, CA [tickets] w/ White Hills
2/16/2017 Hard Rock Hotel And Casino Las Vegas, NV [tickets] w/ White Hills
2/17/2017 Slims - San Francisco, CA [tickets] w/ Acid King
2/18/2017 Star Theater - Portland, OR [tickets] w/ Danava
2/21/2017 Reggie's - Chicago, IL [tickets]
2/23/2017 Le Poisson Rouge - New York, NY [tickets]
2/24/2017 Barracuda - Austin, TX [tickets] w/ Pallbearer
2/25/2017 Barracuda - Austin, TX [tickets] w/ Acid King, Jex Thoth

For further info contact liz at earsplitcompound.com.

http://www.arthur-brown.com
http://www.facebook.com/arthurbrownmusic
http://www.youtube.com/arthurbrownmusic
http://www.vivapsycho.com
http://www.facebook.com/psychoentertainmentpresents

fnb: five of your top six records in the "Desert/Fuzz/Stoner Rock" contain roman numerals. is this just an inherent quality of the genre?

seriously though i did really like that psychic lemon record. so much so that i don't even mind there's goddamn flute all over it.