Showing posts with label Heavy Psych. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heavy Psych. Show all posts

March 6, 2009

The Pancakes



I think MySpace is the most amazing plaze ever when it comes to discover new music. Today I again found a strange and interesting band called The Pancakes. These freeks are from Germany and mixes a Spanish psychedelic trip with some kind of really acidious pop with all kind off strange stuff mixed in. Cool, damn cool.

And theres also a link to their "record label" called Kerntonshall - or what. Really fucked up site, but with lots of music to download. Anyway, pay them a visit.

The Pancakes at MySpace | Kerntonshall

November 27, 2008

Teeth of the Sea @ Rocket Recordings



Rocket Recordings are proud to announce the release on January 19th of Orphaned by the Ocean, the debut album by Teeth of the Sea. The band locked themselves away in the studio after their dates with Wooden Shjips and The Heads, and have come up with a monolithic monster of cosmic psychedelia, analog-tronica, melodramatic giallo soundscapes and kraut-tinged occultism... "London experimentalists Teeth Of The Sea wander through a thick haze redolent of both pea soupers and opium dens, their head melting onstage sound manipulation is enlivened by looping trumpet hooks." Kerrang! live review

Teeth of the Sea will also play New Years Ewe at Night of the Long Swords - and I would fucking very much like to spend my night at that place ...


October 28, 2008

Distortions - Psychic Reverb

Back in June I reviewed Distortions first album and gave it 5 out of 5 and stated that it maybe was gonna be my top album of the year ‘08. Well, now they are back with yet another album!?


The music is the same kind of extremely distorted garage-punk with lots of reverb on the vocal and a heavy bass. So, is there any news from this band, or is it just another spin of the same thing? It for sure is the same spin off, and you for sure will say that you’ve heard it before. But then again, this time the songs are even more twisted and psychedelic grooves are added making the songs freak your mind in another way. It’s not just a raw take on punkish garagerock.

A song with the ambitious name “Radio Hit” shows the band moving into the real acidic territories with an awkwardly catchy ska-punkish riff and a simplistic almost dada guitar solo. This strange kind of soloing is also found in “Night Bar to the Next Girl” where the “solo” is actually a short phrase of a child song. And hey, the song “Urinals” is actually an almost complete rip-off of the ”Transmission” bass-riff with just two chords and the same kind of stroke, but developing into a nightmare of distorted fuzz – astonishingly great crafted and so familiar without actually being a coversong – actually I don’t even think it’s intentional. Strangest song of all must be “Propane 200” which sounds like The Cramps rehearsing high on bad acid after listening to early XTC. I wouldn’t recommend going to sleep listening to this record since it might give you a creeping nightmare. Anyway, this is a brilliant take on really acidic horror-psyche – maybe even genius!?! And of course out on blurry green vinyl – what else?!
http://www.myspace.com/lithiumforyou Celebrity is in the Whiskey Bar

September 28, 2008

Stupidest band name in Brooklyn



"Probably the stupidest band name in a borough that has a band called Cheeseburger. Oh well, if you give yourself to Weird Owl, they might take you to the stoned moonpeaks of Acid Mother's Temple and Hawkwind or the acid-touched blur of 13th Floor Elevators or even, say, "Pictures of Matchstick Men" if you can spare the time and good vibes. A rewarding, spacey comedown for people who think Comets On Fire is too caustic or the Gris Gris ain't caustic enough."

Weird Owl @ MySpace | Review | Heavy Discussion @ Stonerrock.com

September 2, 2008

La Otracina – The Risk of Gravitation

Jesucks! I mean, gee… man – La Otracina is a mind bending hard to cope with complex familiarity. Adam Kriney of the band contacted me through my blog and asked if I wanted to review this new mini-album. And hell yes I wanted to after listening to the songs on their MySpace site. Adam presents them as a stoner-prog/psych band. I would go further and call them a heavy prog-space-freejazz band - or whatever. This record is for sure going to keep your mind occupied for the whole half hour! The music interchanges from amphetamine driven space-jazz to downtempo almost prog-doom into almost polished psych-prog. The record seems to be one long suite with all songs floating in and out of each other. Every new song is a new surprise since they change their style from song to song – well, actually even within many of the songs. What a cool band and what cool music. This is for fans of Zappa as well as Hawkwind as well as Orthodox. http://www.myspace.com/laotracina Colour Sound Recordings