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

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?

Spindrift
LSD & The Search For God
The Asteroid #4
Cambrian Explosion
Plastic Crimewave Syndicate
The Spiral Electric
Hawkeye
Zozma
The Young Elders
The Veldt
Lemat
Hi Hazel
Down Dirty Shake
Jackson Boone
Zodiac Death Valley
San Dbabes
Mosquito
Howler

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

thread playlist is updated.

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

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

That's very nice!

Wow, Young Blindness is choons plus, thanks for this!

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/

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

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.

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?" - Wire
released December 1, 2015 The 2013 album, Cage of Gold, has guests from Comus.

And speak of the devil---this just in [Drag City News prosody approaching, adjust shades]

AT THE 'ZOO
So 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!

Here's my second annual Psychedelic Psummer piece:

Psychedelic Psummer: Return to the Dark Side
http://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

Awesome. I always look forward to hearing some new stuff fnb.

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.

Lol @ Salem's Pot

love this teaser for the new Daniel Bachman: https://youtu.be/KOhpR4apQIM

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/

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/bonus-psych-2016.jpg

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