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

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/

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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

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2016-lucky-13.jpg

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.

They must all be paying tribute to Chicago ;)

Looking forward to that Arthur Brown show at Reggie's! With Khemmis and Truckfighters in January, it's going to be a good winter for shows just a mile down the street from me.

Here's the Stoner Hive slow roll so far. Yes, with the ties, 13 should be next, but Stoner Hive universe runs on it's own logic ;)

http://stonerhive.blogspot.com/

20 The Re-Stoned – Reptiles Return
19 Komatsu – Recipe For Murder One
18 Baroness – Purple
17 Mos Generator – Abyssinia
16 Mars Red Sky – Apex III (Praise For The Burning Soul)
16 Baby Woodrose – Freedom

http://https%3A//2.bp.blogspot.com/-w8pwqcZLo7U/WFbOvPSKKCI/AAAAAAAAKo8/ifE8u1--9DoJ0Ti2xtV3zthe1g3uRmekwCLcB/s320/2016-15.jpg

15 Gojira - Magma
15 Black Rainbows – Stellar Prophecy

After the amazing Baby Woodrose and stunning Mars Red Sky albums featured on Number 16 we once again find two bands on Number 15. One of which was definitely not expected! So, let’s start with that one first. For we definitely recognized its glory and merit, it’s just that this kind of metal isn’t featured a lot on the HiVe. Sure, one could always claim this French band to be a weird kind of lovechild of bands such as Meshuggah, Neurosis and Mastodon. And that the band has been drifting ever forward towards its own sound. A strange amalgam of prog, death and math metal. And all of that, in a very open and hopeful way. And listening to this record again, while writing this, it immediately proves why all you freaks out there voted for it. It is universally good and an album that transcends boundaries. The Italians however, who received the same amount of points for the 2016 Top 20 Countdown are ofcourse definitely meant to be on it. Expected even, probably. Right? For every one of us heavy rock lovers dug their former album. The one released last year and which ended on Number 5 of the Top 20. This time around the trio aim their fuzzy electric blues for the stars and riff out a new prophecy for themselves. Much more esoteric and grandiose and less meant to this earth or this time. This is meant for the ages and to live on forever!

14 Truckfighters – V
14 Elephant Tree – Elephant Tree

We jumped a few points here and there the past positions to reach Number 15 featuring Gojira and Black Rainbows. But now we jump another ten points to reach place Number 14 which is, once again, occupied by two bands. Swedes and Brits. One of them delivering their debut (full-sized) album this year while the other one came out swinging with their fifth. Everyone loves those Swedes and seeing them live will only make you love them more. Their stage antics and wild shows are always highly entertaining. You can count on them to show you a good time. With their fifth album they even managed to outdo their former album that reached Number 8 back in 2014. And they managed to outdo themselves, turning their wild no nonsense stoner rock into something much more adventurous. Which took quite a few fans to take slowly to their new album. But once the coin dropped, they were ofcourse once again victorious! The Brits rode high on the Doom Charts for four months straight. And rightfully so, their debut album is so chuck full of swing and groove, so densely packed with melodies and songwriting skill, you almost forget about the high intensity desert rock and blues roots that fuels it all. Riff upon riff and hymn upon hymn…

http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2016/12/bandcamp-bonanza-best-of-bonanza-16.html?m=1

13 Brant Bjork – Tao Of The Devil

Will Number 14 which featured Truckfighters and Elephant Tree be the last position with two bands? Or can we count on more albums getting the exact amount of votes? Well, on Number 13 we find just one. And one alone. Well, ofcourse the man did receive some help from some weird punky friends. But, the man has been reaching the Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown with each album he has released in the years the Countdown has been running. So, since 2009 that is. Reaching Number 7 in 2010 and Number 3 in 2014. O’ and let’s not forget about the band he was a part of back in 2013, which reached all the way to Number 1 thanks to 61 of you voters out there. He was ofcourse also part of the band that started everything and is without a doubt the one master and guru of the laidback desert scene. The new record just proves it all over again. It contains universal truths and sundried tones, raw and edgy on some moments, funky and soulful on others and always warm, windswept and dusty. And above all much more bluesy and with an intense groove. The Tao cannot be articulated with mere words. But the man has found the right amount of music to do it with…

A couple newer discoveries.

The Early Years - II (Sonic Cathedral) - Ten years after their debut, shoegaze evolves into gleaming Kosmische and post-punk/post-rock minimalism.
https://soniccathedral.bandcamp.com/album/ii

The Urges – Time Will Pass (Mersol) - Dublin garage psych band, also takes nearly a decade to follow up their debut, this one evolving from raw Sonics style garage to something influenced by Love/Zombies/Pretty Things. On "Echoes Softly" they even measure up to one of my favorites, Hidden Masters. Not on Spotify or Bandcamp, I ordered the CD.
http://mersolmusic.bigcartel.com/product/the-urges-time-will-pass-cd-album-limited-edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPHVSOY0gwc

12 Holy Serpent – Temples
12 Curse The Son – Isolator

Of course Mr. Bjork always makes this list. Responsible for so much, and we’ve just been loving so much of the music he has been putting out over the years. And Tao Of The Devil on Number 13 was no exception! But we do jump a lot of points again to head over to Number 12. Where we, yes, find once again, two bands! Two albums that have been riding high on the Doom Charts. Lysergic rock soundscapes are pouring out of the majestic fuzz viscera’s of this album with sluggish fury and so they stun the senses, numb the body and intoxicate the brain with their abysmal doom aura and thanks to the rich talents of this trio, who sprinkle their grandiose heavy sound with hazy sludge touches and almost imperceptibly grunge hues and funk timbres that accentuate their muggy stoner aesthetics, we are offered an extremely heavy and almost irresistible album of high stoner/doom quality. Yes, that’s what Lyk from Phantasmagoria wrote back in April for our Doom Chart. And Clint from Hand Of Doom wrote this: In scenes, reminiscent of the progression between the first and second albums from Elder you will bear witness to a band raising the stakes in crafting their own sound – heavy and oozing with melody, unexpected twists and surging riffs, searing wah soaked solos and that mile-thick guitar tone has so much bite, incredible… The album seems to slow down and get heavier with each track… And both were right on the money! So, let’s curse the serpent and isolate our temples!

not to derail at all but i think this might be the thread for this, late contender for a top 10 of 2016- described as bardo pond playing live/dead... i love it

https://desmadradossoldadosdeventura.bandcamp.com/album/the-grand-celestial-purge

Oooh Ive been meaning to check out the new Desmadradoes

what else would you recommend? this is my first listen