Alien Grays and Limpid Days: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Rock Thread 2017

More garage psych from Melbourne's The Murlocs is out today!

https://themurlocs.bandcamp.com/album/old-locomotive

Brant Bjork has a live album, Europe '16, coming out 9/22 on Napalm.

I reviewed a record that some people here might find a thing or two to like... Austin all-female trio whose drummer played with Roky Erickson...

Suspirians - Ti Bon Ange (Super Secret Records)
Bandcamp / Spotify

In Voodoo belief, the soul is made of two parts. The ti bon ange, literally “little good angel,” is the part of the soul that contains the individual qualities of a person. The Suspirians’ sophomore release lives up to that title by showcasing how distinct individual influences can merge into one coherent, and at times, stunningly good album. (The Agit Reader)

That drummer is Lisa Cameron! ie the longtime drummer for ST 37!

spotify playlist is updated for the half year mark

ILM's Rolling Psych Rock Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

I flippin love Nocturne and Moonwave off that Suspirians album, can't wait to fully absorb.

Postpunky squall of Fortune Spider, proto-metal (into more squall of Black Holes). This is def an accessible favorite of mine right now.

I highly recommend Comets ov Cupid

https://cometsovcupid.bandcamp.com/album/scythian-ep

this is my fave drift supergroup. clark and wednesday from Pigeons, Anthony Pasquarosa, and P.G. Six. set adrift....bring your own air mattress.

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

great day yesterday in new salem. opened at noon with weeping bong band and ended at midnight with sunburned hand of the man. so much great stuff. p.g. solo and willie lane and ryley walker and lots more in a big old church meetinghouse with light show/projections. great sound too.

some shows are just in the right space at the right time...

https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20953853_1881065871919868_6502277254903300785_n.jpg?oh=f2465c9ecd6aa10a1387449cb4ba4953&oe=5A1B96F1

8 is Ufomammut’s 8th album, comprised of 8 tracks that flow into each other without interruption. This flow can also be seen when you tip 8 horizontally, thus it morphs into the leniscate from algebraic geometry – ∞ – a plane curve that meets at central point – or more commonly known as the infinity symbol. A continuous stream of movement reflective of the uninterrupted nature of the album but also the continued togetherness of the essential elements of the band – Urlo, Poia and Vita – since the beginning of the band’s history in 1999. ∞ tipped vertically sees us return to the number 8.

It must be stressed there is no singular pronunciation of the title, 8 is to be spoken in every language e.g. “eight” in Engish, “otto” in Italian, “acht” in German, huit in french and so on. 8 is a continuous flux of music, a singular entity, which can be defined in micro measurements by its 8 satellite songs. Each track expands upon the preceding song, unfolding into an exceedingly dense and malevolent journey, resulting in this being Ufomammut’s most extreme venture yet, with no permittance for breathing space in the 48 minutes. ∞8∞

https://ufomammut.bandcamp.com/album/8-2

I think the excellent new Motorpsycho album should also be mentioned here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDYII20YbXQ

Indeed! I guess I forgot to post my review a couple weeks ago. I was posting in the Motorpsycho thread. I've been inspired to obsessively revisit their whole catalog.

http://fastnbulbous.com/motorpsycho-the-tower/

Also out today is With The Dead. I didn't warm up very quickly to the first album, as I wasn't quite into Lee Dorrian's tuneless vocals. However live at Roadburn last year they were the perfect amount of nasty.

With The Dead – Love From With The Dead (Rise Above)

Also coming:
Monolord – Rust (RidingEasy) 29-Sep | Bandcamp
Spirit Adrift – Curse Of Conception (20 Buck Spin) 6-Oct
Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper (Profound Lore) 20-Oct
Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard (Spinefarm) 10-Nov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHLbZ81oso

This is a nice one

No discussion of the recent Pontiak album, Dialectic of Ignorance in here yet? They've heavied up their sound with a kind of Om-ish, stonery rhythmic thing blending with their normal more psych-rock sound. It's really good.

will listen

Sounds neat. I think I ended up sleeping on the last Pontiak album...

i appreciate carpet_kaiser's Doug Tuttle mention, as Doug is on an incredible roll ... each of his last three albums are just endlessly lovely + top 10 of their given year-worthy, and he deserves every ear/break he can get

he also has this new album out w/ dude from Herbcraft:
https://lajoietuttle.bandcamp.com/album/american-primate

I gave the pontiak a chance but I'd rather just listen to elder. ymmv obv

I re-listened to the Pontiak. Not bad, but realistically will barely scrape into my top 200.

I really love the Spirit Adrift - http://fastnbulbous.com/spirit-adrift-curse-of-conception/

Oh well I tried.

I like it a lot, seems like a hybrid of styles I haven't heard a lot and I really like the vocals. Any recommendations for similar stuff?

I empathize. You imagine a particular sound, texture or guitar tone and a band comes along and nails it, and you wonder why everyone else isn't as excited about it. I'll have to listen more to think of some compatible comparisons. Perhaps a few track by Oneida?

The Dials - That Was The Future
UK garage psych band, were pretty ordinary before, but this is a big step forward. On Spotify today.

I'd posted these on the prog thread:

The Quartet Of Woah! - Second album from Portuguese band, graduated from stoner rock to psych prog.
https://thequartetofwoah.bandcamp.com/album/the-quartet-of-woah

Himmellegeme - Myth Of Earth - On Karisma label with Wobbler and Tusmørke. Smooth, Norwegian Floydian psych prog.
https://himmellegeme.bandcamp.com/releases

Appreciate your recommendations fast

While I enjoy pretty much everything by Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, I think Vol 1 (2010) is still their second best album. It's been remastered and officially released by Rise Above last week, highly recommended!

My Dials review - http://fastnbulbous.com/the-dials-that-was-the-future/

Causa Sui - Vibraciones Doradas
Part three of their Freedom Fuzz trilogy, lovin it. Also checking out other interesting entries on the El Paraiso label, Black Cube Marriage, Astral TV and Videodrones.
http://elparaisorecords.com/releases/causa-sui-vibraciones-doradas

Fast you are #daman
Will check out pronto
What do you make of this gizzard thing? Worth a download?

Sure, I mean it's free! It's fun and worth a listen for sure. They've stretched themselves a bit thin in this attempt at five albums in a calendar year, but it sure hasn't hurt their following, which is bigger and more devout than ever, with people getting lizard tattoos. I gotta respect that they are this prolific while also touring North America several times in recent years. But they're hardly the only band that can churn out psych jams and work hard. For example, look at Earthling Society. Including The Sonic Shaman tribute to Lemmy, they've also put four albums out this year that are arguably much more impressive. The most recent is Crooked Under Moonlight, which for some reason isn't available on Bandcamp yet, but it's out there. I also think of Ice Dragon, though they've slowed down, hopefully with an exciting project in the works.

https://earthlingsociety.bandcamp.com/

More space rock jams:

Papir - V (Stickman)
https://papir.bandcamp.com/album/v

Spaceslug - Time Travel Dilemma (BSFD)
https://spaceslug.bandcamp.com/album/time-travel-dilemma

10 000 Russos - Distress Distress (Fuzz Club)
https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/distress-distress

Moths & Locusts - Intro/Outro (Cardinal Fuzz)
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/moths-locusts-intro-outro

Kairon; IRSE! - Ruination (Svart)
https://kaironirse.bandcamp.com/album/ruination

The Space Lords - Water Planet (Tonzonen)
https://thespacelords1.bandcamp.com/album/water-planet

Mythic Sunship - Land Between Rivers (El Paraiso)
http://www.elparaisorecords.com/releases/mythic-sunship-land-between-rivers-preorder

Samsara Blues Experiment - One With The Universe (Electric Magic/World In Sound)
https://samsarabluesexperiment.bandcamp.com/album/one-with-the-universe

Atavismo - Inerte (Temple Of Torturous)
https://templeoftorturous.bandcamp.com/album/inerte

Kal-El - Astrodoomeda (Argonauta)
http://www.argonautarecords.com/shop/music-/214-kal-el-astrodoomeda-cd.html

The Infinite Trip - Brain Blossom
https://theinfinitetrip.bandcamp.com/album/brain-blossom

The Sonic Shamen - Tribute To Lemmy (Members of Litmus, Earthling Society, ØSC and Red Elektra)
https://thesonicshamen.bandcamp.com/album/tribute-to-lemmy

Zong - Zong (Praying Mantis/Cardinal Fuzz)
https://prayingmantis.bandcamp.com/album/zong-st-lp-2017

The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol - Cosmic Curios (Weird Beard)
https://thebandwhosenameisasymbol.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-curios-remixed-mastered-weird-beard-2017-version

PERHAPS - V (Riot Season)
https://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/v

Plastic Crimewave Syndicate - Thunderbolt Of Flaming Wisdom (Cardinal Fuzz)
https://cful.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-crimewave-syndicate-thunderbolt-of-flaming-wisdom

Oh man, what a list. How do you find the time

Nothing new going on here but that's just fine with me:

http://purplehillwitch.bandcamp.com/album/celestial-cemetery

Love that band. Norway is killing it with stoner/doom/prog/psych this year. The bassplayer Andreas Schafferer (aka Dôômdögg) also has a space rock band called Spectral Haze which just released a new album Friday:

Spectral Haze - Turning Electric (Totem Cat)
https://www.stickman-records.com/shop/spectral-haze-turning-electric/
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/spectral-haze-turning-electric/

Checking out a track from that now, it's great! Thanks. That guitar sound is so filthy.

Yep, they seem to take the Hawkwind/Amon Düül II template and rough it up with the nastier tones via the Stooges and charred space garbage. Plus colorful personas!

Spectral Haze is:
Spacewülff – Interstellar Howls/Geetarrrgh
Sönik Slöth – Supercosmic overdrive pedalinfused guitarvoid
Döômdögg – Dronemachinated AUM
Cëlestïal Cöbra – Conjurer of souls through ritual drums

Occasional appearances:
Elêctrïc Stårlïng – Space wizard beckoning astral animal guardians, manipulating aether
Pòwêr Pänthêr – Percussive boddhisattva, aspect of the conjuring ritual drums

New releases today.

Jess And The Ancient Ones - The Horse And Other Weird Tales (Svart) - Finnish psych/prog noir. Probably will make my top 13.
https://jessandtheancientones.bandcamp.com/album/the-horse-and-other-weird-tales

Hard Action - Hot Wired Beat (Svart) - I overlooked them previously because of their boring name, but I love how they sound Australian along the vein of Radio Birdmen, The New Christs and Hell City Glamours. Garage pre-punk that rocks hard with good hooks.

Lento - Fourth (ConSouling) - Italian instrumental space sludge who once shared a split LP with Ufomammut.
https://lento.bandcamp.com/album/fourth

Radar Men From The Moon - Subversive III: De Spelende Mens (Fuzz Club) - Instrumental space rock/jam/noise from Netherlands, name yr price.
https://radarmenfromthemoon.bandcamp.com/album/subversive-iii-de-spelende-mens

Been following the year-end list rollouts of course, and listening to a lot of stuff. It's pretty dispiriting out there. As far as music from this thread, unless you're associated with the indie psych axis of power (Segall/Dwyer's Castle Face) like King Gizzard and the LW, you don't exist. Nobody is listening to anything here with just a couple exceptions like Elder and Ufomammut. I listen to all their precious IDM/EBM/avant pop/folktronica/elegiac jazz/slowcore/sound art b.s. (and like a few things), but it seems fewer and fewer people go outside of their pet subgenres and comfort zones anymore. It's incredibly lame.

I dunno, maybe the problem is that there really is no longer any sort of glossy publication or mainstream site that focuses on this stuff anymore. But I feel like some of my other favorite genres like post-punk and afrobeat are pretty well represented, considering how much fewer releases there are compared to this VAST bucket.

https://hardaction.bandcamp.com/album/hot-wired-beat

Oh yeah, speaking of Elder, who deserve all the attention they get and more, today they reissued remastered versions of their first two albums. A good time to do that when interest in them is at an all-time high.

Elder (2008)
https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/elder-remastered-demos

Dead Roots Stirring (2011)
https://beholdtheelder.bandcamp.com/album/dead-roots-stirring-remastered

Electric Eye - From The Poisonous Tree (Jansen)
https://electriceye.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-poisonous-tree-2

Blown Out - Superior Venus (Riot Season)
https://blownout.bandcamp.com/album/superior-venus

New Candys - Bleeding Magenta (Fuzz Club)
https://newcandys.bandcamp.com/album/bleeding-magenta

Helicon - Helicon (Fuzz Club) - Dec 8
https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/helicon

Sekel - Sekel (Fuzz Club) - Dec 15
https://fuzzclub.bandcamp.com/album/sekel

Some of the extremely negative reactions to the Electric Wizard are interesting. While they dig back to a proto-metal sound, it's not all THAT much different from recent albums. Still sounds nasty and hateful as ever. My colleagues in Doom Charts dig it.

https://doomcharts.com/2017/12/03/doom-charts-for-november-2017/

#2 is Clouds Taste Satanic - The Glitter Of Infinite Hell - Fourth album of epic length instrumental doom from Brooklyn.
https://cloudstastesatanic.bandcamp.com/album/the-glitter-of-infinite-hell

I'm just getting acquainted with new entries Snowy Dunes, Astral Mass, Fireball Ministry, Galactic Gulag, Heavydeath and Dead Quiet.

Fester’s Lucky 13: 2017 Year-End Summary

http://fastnbulbous.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017-lucky-13.jpg

Top 100 Albums of 2017 |  Spotify Mix | 2017 Breakdown: Genre Lists | Shows, Videos | Movies, Television, Books & Comics

In addition to, not instead of, Fastnbulbous' considerable playlist: for those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Psych Rock Thread Spotify Playlist

Epic. Thanks Ulysses! I actually pared my down to a less daunting size for folks who want to sample, not deep dive, so yours is a great option to have.

Like I did last year, here's an overall list.

1. Motorpsycho – The Tower (Rune Grammafon)
2. Elder – Reflections Of A Floating World (Armagedden)
3. Jess And The Ancient Ones – The Horse And Other Weird Tales (Svart)
4. The Dials – That Was The Future (Gear Discs)
5. Amplifier – Trippin' With Dr. Faustus (Rockosmos)
6. Colour Haze – In Her Garden (Elektrohasch)
7. Causa Sui – Vibraciones Doradas (El Paraiso)
8. Avatarium – Hurricanes And Halos (Nuclear Blast)
9. Telekinetic Yeti – Abominable (Sump Pump)
10. Taiga Woods – Taiga Woods (Taiga Woods)
11. Spectral Haze – Turning Electric (Totem Cat)
12. Mythic Sunship – Land Between Rivers (El Paraiso)
13. Wand – Plum (Drag City)
14. Red Mountains – Slow Wander (All Good Clean)
15. The Devil And The Almighty Blues – II (Blues For The Red Sun)
16. Sekel – Sekel (Fuzz Club) 15-Dec
17. Circle – Terminal (Southern Lord)
18. Ty Segall – Ty Segall (Drag City)
19. All Them Witches – Sleeping Through The War (New West)
20. Papir – V (Stickman)
21. Ruby The Hatchet – Planetary Space Child (Tee Pee)
22. Plastic Crimewave Syndicate – Thunderbolt Of Flaming Wisdom (Cardinal Fuzz)
23. Agusa – Agusa (Laser's Edge)
24. Dope Smoker – Legalize It (Dope Smoker)
25. Blues Funeral – Awakening (Blues Funeral)
26. Zong – Zong (Praying Mantis/Cardinal Fuzz)
27. Moths & Locusts – Intro/Outro (Cardinal Fuzz)
28. Moon Duo – Occult Architecture Vol. 1 & 2 (Sacred Bones)
29. The Murlocs – Old Locomotive (Flightless)
30. The Janitors – Horn Ur Marken (Sky Lantern/Cardinal Fuzz)
31. Oh Sees – Orc (Castle Face)
32. Electric Eye – From The Poisonous Tree (Jansen)
33. Mind Meld – Mind Meld (Permanent)
34. Sundays & Cybele – Chaos & Systems (Beyond Beyond Beyond)
35. Helicon – Helicon (Fuzz Club)
36. The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol – Cosmic Curios (Weird Beard)
37. Spaceslug – Time Travel Dilemma (BSFD)
38. Kairon; IRSE! – Ruination (Svart)
39. Wucan – Reap The Storm (Hansel & Gretel)
40. The Necromancers – Servants Of The Salem Girl (Ripple)
41. Youngblood Supercult – The Great American Death Rattle (Youngblood Supercult)
42. Lento – Fourth (ConSouling)
43. Earthling Society – Zen Bastard (Drone Rock)
44. The Fallen Leaves – What We've All Been Waiting For (Parliament)
45. 10 000 Russos – Distress Distress (Fuzz Club)
46. Earthling Society – Ascent To Godhead (Riot Season)
47. The Spacelords – Water Planet (Tonzonen)
48. The Sonic Shamen – Tribute To Lemmy (Space Rock Productions)
49. Dead Quiet – Grand Rites (Artoffact)
50. Siena Root – A Dream Of Lasting Peace (Made In Germany)
51. Kill West – Gush (Stolen Body)
52. New Candys – Bleeding Magenta (Fuzz Club)
53. Doublestone – Devil's Own/Djaevlens Egn (Doublestone)
54. Medusa1975 – Rising From The Ashes (Medusa1975)
55. Devil Electric – Devil Electric (Kozmik Artifactz)
56. Himmellegeme – Myth Of Earth (Karisma)
57. Kungens Män – Dag & Natt (Kungens Ljud & Bild )
58. Electric Moon – Stardust Rituals (Sulatron)
59. Blown Out – Superior Venus (Riot Season)
60. Papernut Cambridge – Mellotron Phase: Volume 1 (Gare Du Nord)
61. The Wicked Ones – The Wicked Ones (Wicked Ones)
62. Pretty Lightning – The Rhythm Of Ooze (Fuzz Club)
63. L'Ira Del Baccano – Paradox Hourglass (Subsound)
64. Ecstatic Vision – Raw Rock Fury (Relapse)
65. Devil's Witches – Velvet Magic (Devil's Witches)
66. Motherslug – The Electric Dunes Of Titan (Motherslug)
67. Sonic Jesus – Grace (Fuzz Club)
68. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana (ATO)
69. Ulrika Spacek – Modern English Decoration (Tough Love)
70. Samsara Blues Experiment – One With The Universe (Electric Magic/World In Sound)
71. Snowy Dunes – Atlantis (HeaviSike)
72. Saturn – Beyond Spectra (Rise Above)
73. The Quartet Of Woah! – The Quartet Of Woah! (Raging Planet)
74. Dead Sea Apes – Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (Sky Lantern/Cardinal Fuzz)
75. Pontiak – Dialectic Of Ignorance (Thrill Jockey)
76. High Priestess – Demo (High Priestess)
77. Wolvespirit – Blue Eyes (Spirit Stone)
78. The Black Wizards – What The Fuzz! (Raging Planet)
79. Sun Blood Stories – It Runs Around The Room With Us (Sun Blood Stories)
80. Atavismo – Inerte (Temple Of Torturous)
81. Nuvem Leopardo – Quintesséncia (Nuvem Leopardo)
82. Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Feed The Rats (Rocket)
83. Mt. Mountain – Dust (Sky Lantern/Cardinal Fuzz)
84. Mangoo – The Heat (Small Stone)
85. Spacelord – Spacelord (Spacelord)
86. Endless Boogie – Vibe Killer (No Quarter)
87. Howling Giant – Black Hole Space Wizard: Part 2 (Howling Giant)
88. Spaceslug – Mountains & Reminiscence EP (BSFD)
89. Demon Head – Thunder On The Fields (The Sign)
90. Dool – Here Now, Here Then (Prophecy)
91. Fogbound – Fogbound (John Colby Sect)
92. John Hoyles – Night Flight (Crusher)
93. Acid Baby Jesus – Lilac Days (Fuzz Club)
94. Hair Of The Dog – This World Turns (Kozmik Artifactz)
95. Biblical – The City That Always Sleeps (New Damage)
96. Kabbalah – Spectral Ascent (Twin Earth)
97. Dead Heavens – Whatever Witch You Are (Dine Alone)
98. Alastor – Black Magic (Twin Earth)
99. Greenbeard – Lödarödböl (Sailor)
100. Dream Machine – The Illusion (Castle Face)

Brilliant stuff as always, thanks a lot mane!

I feel pretty guilty for neglecting this thread all year...I finally found some p cool space-rock and psych, but am almost loath to offer it up halfway thru December

That Fogbound album is easily in my Top 3, jousting for the top spot with Black Angel Death Song. In fact, yeah, it's my favorite, whether or not it's objectively "best".

no, not a title suggestion. just lots of great bands in Melbourne.

Another thread title suggestion, this one a Linda Perhacs lyric, "I'm spacing out, I'm seeing silence between leaves." Maybe just the second part?

I pulled the trigger:

Give Me a Lamp, It's Going to Be Weird: Rolling Stoner/Psych/Retro/Space Rock Thread 2018