31 Mar 2018

Rocket Probes – March playlist





GNOD – Chapel Perilous
(Gnew album from the mighty GNOD, check out the 15 minute mammoth track 'Donovan's Daughter's' above)

Bonnacons of Doom – Bonnacons of Doom
(Killer debut album of heavy guitars and psyched out repetitions from this Liverpool collective...preorder now on Rocket)
Bonnacons of Doom

Lay Llamas – Silver Sun
(First track to be revealed from the forthcoming Lay Llamas album...a sax driven glam-kraut stomper)
Lay Llamas

KIKOK – KIKOK EP

(Wonky 90's electronica grooves from the very talented Gnoomes drummer)
KIKOK

Oneida – Romance
(The big O are back!!)
Oneida

Hey Colossus – RRR
(Vinyl reissue of this great HC album)
Hey Colossus

Erkin Koray - Hor Görme Garibi 
(Turkish Fuzz)
Erkin Koray

Fancy Rosy - Punk Police
(Great bit of Euro Punk from '77...sounds a bit like a female fronted 'Chaudelande' Gnod)
Fancy Rosy 

Dead Moon – Fire in the western world
(Garage legends)
Dead Moon

Vox Populi! ‎– Magiques Creations
(Great album of 80's ambient, industrial, avant pop...the singer has guested on the new MIEN album)
Vox Populi!

The Final Age
(Tremendous solo album by Anthroprophh/Gnod drummer Jesse Web)
The Final Age

Rymdstyrelsen – Space is Cold
(Classic psych sounds from this Swedish band...on the great Danish label Kommune)
Rymdstyrelsen

Jonny Greenwood – You Were Never Really Here
(Eclectic and immersive soundtrack)
Jonny Greenwood

Condor – Unstoppable Power
(one of the guitarists from Goat turned us onto this great album of Norwegian Black Thrash)
Condor 

Chen Yi – Rug
(Real nice minimal groove with abrasive post punk vox)
Chen Yi 

David Terry – Sorrow
(Great droning 'We Will Fall'esque' goodness by David from Bong)
David Terry

Monumentals – Irregular Heads
(Interesting instrumental album of drones, rhythms and experiments, from the Cult of Dom Keller's) 
Monumentals

The Skull Defekts - A Message from The Skull Defekts
(Repetitive 'glitter beat' driven noise)
The Skull Defekts

3 Hürel - Sevenler Ağlarmiş
(More Turkish Fuzz!!!)
3 Hürel

Coil – Teenage Lightning 1
(Sounds like Can produced by Nurse With Wound in Latin America....nice animated video too)
Coil

Listen to our updated monthly Rocket Probes Spotify  playlist




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Soundblab say some words about Lay Llamas new track Silver Sun


They say:

Nicola Giunta's Lay Llamas have announced their return with new track Silver Sun which can be streamed below. The track is taken from forthcoming album Thuban, to be released on Rocket Recordings on June 15th, the follow up to 2014's Østro.

Giunta took on new instrument duties for the recording of the album, including saxophone which features heavily on Silver Sun, which sounds like Neu meets James Chance & The Contortions.

Giunta has also taken on vocal duties himself, but the album also features guests Mark Stewart of The Pop Group, Liverpool band Clinic and one of the masked singers from Swedish Psych collective Goat.

The album will be released on limited edition orange and black vinyl (and regualr CD) and can be pre-ordered here: Bandcamp

See the full piece here: Soundblab

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Raven Sings The Blues say some words on Lay Llamas 'Silver Sun'


They say:

Rocket Recordings are constantly on a tear and this taste of an upcoming album for Lay Llamas is psych-pop skronk at its best. Switched on like The Beta Band gone feral, “Silver Sun” is a lockgrooved thrummer that’s broken up by a lightning jag of sax scratch. The work of Italian songwriter Nicola Giunta along with a rotating host of psych slicers on assist – including members of Clinic, Goat and The Pop Group – the upcoming album looks to be another stormer from Rocket’s UK psych stronghold. The band’s come to some attention opening for Goat during UK shows and they share a kinship with their labelmates’ pan-global aesthetic towards psychedelia, though this hints at a deft ribbon of pop winding its way through Giunta’s version of psych, leaving a bit more linger on the brain. Gonna want to keep an eye on this one for sure. The album is out in June. 

Read the whole piece here: RSTB

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Northern Transmissions reviews MIEN


They say:

Through the endless bands pulling from the retro world of psychedelic rock, only a few embrace the aesthetic wholeheartedly. For their self-titled release, MIEN decidedly filter their unique and often rhythmic writing through a sound that covers every facet of vintage rock while offering something new to the genre. While this album is inherently pulling from handfuls of influences, there’s something nuanced in the direction they end up taking it.

There’s a lush and exotic psychedelic wash of sound throughout the record that colours tracks like “Earth Moon” as a wondrous dive into rhythm and vintage instrumentation. Where many tracks simply tackle the experimental guitars however, nail the flutes, sitar sounds and even more minuscule percussive sounds for an immersive aesthetic. “Black Habit” embraces the bass for a lo-fi and shadowy track that oozes with menacing energy. Though this track feels a lot more meditative and droning than others on the album, it manages to maintain its hold nonetheless.

As MIEN lets loose their rhythmic barrage on “(I’m Tired Of) Western Shouting” you can start to hear the Jefferson Airplane influence underneath its intoxicating grooves...

Read the rest of the review here: Northern Transmissions

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30 Mar 2018

Echoes and Dust review Rocket Twenty


It says:

We knew this weekend was going to be fucking ridiculous but, seriously, it was absolutely fucking unreal. Each band was bringing their best and defying expectation. Each new signee delivered emphatically and the old favourites upon whom the label was built reached new pinnacles that at times were totally unfathomable to me. Dan (Salter), my brother Jake & I ventured out to Rocket 20 as the three most warped creatures in the Echoes & Dust team and somehow returned even weirder.

FRIDAY:
We arrived to a queue outside The Garage so long that I thought it was the smoking area at first. Anticipation built and we thought that we were missing Flowers Must Die but, we managed to catch their set in the end. When we first arrived I didn’t actually realise who was playing because the band had mutated their sound into a more Rocket-esque gloomy take on their more-well known twang.


After Flowers Must Die we took our first peak upstairs to watch AHRKR’s set; it turns out that unbeknownst to me, this was to be the first of five Gnod sets this weekend, with Alex Macarte flying solo for this one. AHrkh’s set was a kind of spiritualistic lopped voice, ambient electronica made even more sedate by burning incense...

Read the rest of this excellent review here: E&D

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Mamuthones support Wolf Eeys


Mamuthones have a mouth watering show supporting Wolf Eyes lined-up next week:

The promoter says:

Double of rare power. First the Mamuthones with their punk-funk outbursts with the presentation of "Fear On The Corner", their new album for Rocket Recordings. Then the principles of world noise - the Wolf Eyes - return to Rome. Do you need more words? No.

The Fine presents:
> Wolf Eyes LIVE
> Mamuthones LIVE

5th April

Admission> € 10

The end
Via Nazionale, 183 - Rome

Info and tickets

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Watch Hey Colossus live in Paris


Last week Hey Colossus played a show at Espace B in Paris and you can watch some great footage from it here: Arte Concert

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Hey Colossus and Anthroprophh joint headline show announced


Baba Yaga's Hut have announced a killer double headliner with Hey Colossus and Anthroprophh at the Moth Club on 6 July, Tickets can be bought from here: Baba Yaga's Hut

Hey Colossus have said this via their site:

We’re playing The Moth Club in London on the 6th July with Anthroprophh, it’s our 15th year Anniversary. Time is flying. Fifteen years since our first rehearsal.

We’re going to be having a Live LP for sale on the night, recorded at the great Magasin4 in Brussels in 2016 This will be a super limited press available to those who make the show.

You can buy just the ticket or buy a ticket with the LP included so you’re guaranteed a copy. This is a live LP done bootleg style, proper sleeve, black vinyl, priced like it’s the 80’s. Buy a ticket to guarantee a copy.

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The Quietus makes Anthroprophh's OMEGAVILLE their Album of the week


Their review reads:

Anthroprophh’s new album on Rocket Recordings is a glorious raging missive on injustice, disorientation and our looming dystopia

We enter the world of Omegaville at breakneck speed. This massive, conceptual double album does not begin with any grand overture or introduction – Anthroprophh require no scene setting. Led by the titanic guitar force of Paul Allen, this fierce vision of pressurised dystopia begins with the gut-churning salvo of ‘2023’, a two-minute barrage of manic fuzz, like a hypercharged ‘Neat Neat Neat’. It duly blasts onwards through the monstrous ‘Dead Inside’ – similarly rabid and not much longer – then again, again and again through the spinning ‘Housing Act 1980’, then the rabid grit of ‘Oakmoll’. There is no pause, no time to gather your senses, just layer after layer of pummelling and freewheeling guitars – hectic squalls caterwauling over churning riffs, the momentum constantly searing upwards.


And then, one minute into ‘Sod’, just as this stampeding record seems to be careening out of control altogether, there’s a sudden, thudding stop, a silence that lasts only a second or two but one that jolts like whiplash. Until now the record’s been nothing but a bracing experience, for the most part thanks to Allen’s guitar; in this tiny pocket of calm you’re given a split-second to take stock of its power...

Read the rest here: The Quietus

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Anthroprophh's OMEGAVILLE out today



Anthroprophh, the three piece featuring Paul Allen (The Heads), Gareth Turner (Kuro/Big Naturals) and Jess Webb (Gnod/Big Naturals) monster new 2LP called 'OMEGAVILLE' is released today

Watch the video for track Death Salad above

Stream the album here: Spotify

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High praise has been coming in for what some are calling a 'masterpiece':

"Fans of The Heads might wish to look away now because I think that this might just be the best thing that Paul Allen has ever done. 10/10"  Psych Insight

"...the wildest thing that I’ve heard in years. 10/10" Soundblab

"Possibly one of the most important albums you will own." Days of Purple and Orange

"Guaranteed to be one of the year’s best, brutal and intensely beautiful releases of the year." Get into This

"The Stooges demolishing MC5's dressing room with Lemmy-era Hawkwind turned up to 11 on a dusty tape deck." The Quietus

"Leads the forefront of exploration into the garage rock, filth laden frontiers." Backseat Mafia

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Buy ltd white and black here: Bandcamp

Or ltd green/ black from all good record shops




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29 Mar 2018

Montreal Gazette interview Rishi from MIEN



It reads:

Sitar-studded supergroup: Montreal's Rishi Dhir is the glue to Mien

“I’ve always approached music as a community of people,” says Rishi Dhir, explaining the genesis of Mien — a project that "is more than just the sum of its parts." 

That’s Rishi Dhir in a nutshell.

“I accepted, at one point, that this is kind of my calling card,” the Montreal multi-instrumentalist, bandleader (of noble psych-pop act Elephant Stone) and newly minted acid-house DJ/sitarist said recently, on a lunch break from his day job as a technical writer.

A rare instrument in the rock world, the sitar has opened doors for Dhir, from sharing the stage with Beck during a 2012 Australian tour (and then at Osheaga in 2013) to sparking conversations with like-minded musicians seemingly everywhere he goes – though his affable demeanour may have something to do with the latter.

“I’ve always approached music as a community of people,” Dhir explained. “If (my band) played with another band I thought was good, I’d say, ‘Hey, we should do something together. Want some sitar?’

“Or if a band I respected came to town — I know what being on the road is like — I’d say, ‘Want to come for dinner, and do some laundry?’ I’ve done that over the years, just due to the fact that I empathize and I understand. And I guess the sitar, as I pointed out, also makes me interesting.”

In other words, the only thing better than a guy with a sitar is a friendly guy with a sitar. Which is basically how Dhir brought his new band together...

Read the rest here: Montreal Gazette

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28 Mar 2018

Line of the Best Fit reviews MIEN




They say:

Psych rock coalition MIEN dig deep into their dark trip headspace 

Tired of all the Western shouting and keen for a bit of Eastern serenity, MIEN - a transatlantic coalition of like-minded, psych-minded members of The Horrors, The Black Angels, Elephant Stone and The Earlies - have come together to make good on an old promise to jam, rewiring the potential of raga rock in the process.

One of the selling points of any supergroup, on paper at least, is the appeal of the A-meets-B combination of band attributes, though sometimes the math doesn’t always add up. In this instance, the groups from which MIEN stems were pretty much on the same page, if not in the same paragraph, from the start. This factor allows them, and us, the freedom from formal introduction awkwardness, as the pieces come naturally pre-fitting. MIEN, then, is already deep into its dark trip headspace as “Earth Moon” spins off of its first dripping sitar steps, Alex Maas’ chant-like vocals diffusing across the spectrum from calm center to ghostly echoes in the outer reaches.

The kind of grooves MIEN digs into often come across as the product of drawn out, felt out jam sessions, but being in one another’s physical presence hasn’t always been an option for Maas, keyboardist Tom Furse, and multi-instrumentalists Rishi Dhir and John-Mark Lapham. (As of this writing, the group have but one live appearance coming up, appropriately enough at the Levitation Festival in Austin later this month.) So it’s to their credit that the songs on MIEN, which were written and pieced together both in person and from a long distance via sharing audio files, have the feeling, if not the length, of immersive explorations. Humid and heavy stompers like “Black Habit”, “(I’m Tired of) Western Shouting” and “Hocus Pocus” make efficient space for swells and lulls.

Liberated from certain commercial expectations of their primary bands, MIEN have made an album that experiments freely without sacrificing broader appeal. Free to go as fully retro as they wish, instead they build their spiralling fevers (“You Dreamt”, “Echolalia”) and thick drones (“Other”) on stacks of samplers and electronic ambience, and find themselves standing somewhere hazily familiar yet promisingly foreign. MIEN is a record that comes with fair enough warning but still catches you off guard. 8.5/10

Read the full review here: MIEN

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Lay Llamas reveal killer first track to their forthcoming album 'Thuban'



It has been 4 years since Lay Llamas released their debut album 'Østro' and we are excited to announce the release of their official follow up called 'Thuban'. You can hear the first track to be revealed from the album, the sax heavy stomper 'Silver Sun' above.

"Comparable only to the aquatic funk of Can."  The Quietus

"Lay Llamas summon the paganistic and the primitive."  Drowned in Sound

See what Echoes and Dust say about it here: E&D

'Thuban' is released on 15 June and the album features contributions from Goat, The Pop Group's Mark Stewart and Clinic. The 8 track album album is the brainchild of Nicola Giunta, and involved as many of twelve different musicians yet with Nicola writing lyrics, singing, producing, mixing and recording at his home, whilst utilising new instruments from marimba to sax to kalimba to pilot this craft to dimensions unknown. The result has been a step beyond the kraut-damaged psychedelic mantras of 'Østro' into a realm seemingly without boundaries, one in which a pan-global fascination with rhythmic hypnosis and an unquenchable experimental zeal manifests hermetically-aligned revelations aplenty.


The album is available on LP and CD and you can preorder the ltd orange/black swirl from here: Bandcamp 

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GIGsoup review and photo's of Rocket Twenty


It reads:

To celebrate its 20th birthday Britain’s finest underground record label Rocket Recordings recently held their Rocket Twenty weekender at The Garage in Highbury and Islington, exactly two decades since they issued their first release, a split 7″ single by The Heads and Lillydamwhite.

With a sizeable chunk of their superb European wide roster of artists appearing across two performance spaces, along with visuals provided by Liverpool Psych Fest’s Sam Wiehl and Rocket Recordings’ very own John O’Carroll, it was three days of truly mind blowing music featuring a diverse range of psychedelia-inspired styles that included everything from krautrock to prog, as well as metal, folk and a variety of electronic styles.Friday

Although the shorter of the three, the opening night offered up some of the weekends genuine highlights. The Malmö-based Flowers Must Die kicked off day one with some eastern-inspired psychedelic space rock which also featured Laura Agnusdei of Julie’s Haircut on sax.


The crowds then quickly rushed off and crammed themselves into the much smaller upstairs room for the first of four Gnod-related solo projects. AHRKH (aka A.P Macarte) encouraged the audience to sit crossed legged like himself, before performing a rather different kind of eastern-inspired sound featuring a meditative mix of ambient drone and vocal loops...

Read the rest of the great review and see the amazing photos here: GIGsoup

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Listen to New Exclusive MIEN album Tracks via Tom Furse NTS Show

Tom Furse included two unheard before tracks from the forthcoming MIEN album on his NTS radio show on Monday.

This was be the first time these track(s) have been played anywhere.

You can listen live here: NTS

The MIEN album is released in under two weeks and you can preorder from here: Bandcamp

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27 Mar 2018

IYE ZINE review Mamuthones Fear on the Corner


They (roughly translated) say:

One of the most exciting and strange albums of the new year, I believe, Fear Of The Corner coins a language in the "rock" shocking, it seems that the needle of the disk grooves at will by jumping from one genre to another, I mean that the groove is renewed long distances of listening.

It appears that the album is not easy and full of charm, a work that wants to escape the classifications of criticism and despite all difficult to find the musical debts for how each piece is organized, or even recognizing the various, it seems that it lives independently reviving them , it is evident the strong intersection with two maxime works, the "On The Corner" by Miles and "Fear Of The Music" by Talking Heads, as well as the Kutian afrobeat...

Read the rest here: IYE

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Julie's Haircut's The Last Command


The Museo Nazionale del Cinema (National Museum of Cinema) has invited Julie’s Haircut to produce new music for the recently restored version of Josef Von Sternberg's film 'The Last Command' (1928). The band will present this new soundtrack live in two exclusive premieres on April 6th in Trento (Teatro Sanbàpolis) and April 11th in Torino (Cinema Massimo).   

'The Last Command' is a 1928 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz from a story by Lajos Bíró from an original idea by Ernst Lubitsch. Star Emil Jannings won the very first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances in this film and 'The Way of All Flesh', the only year that multiple roles were considered. In 2006, the film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for the National Film Registry. The supporting cast includes Evelyn Brent and William Powell. The film tells the story of a former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar who ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Trento Facebook event

Torino Facebook event

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26 Mar 2018

GNOD Chapel Perilous Indie Shop Exclusive

The Rocket Shop version of GNOD's Chapel Perilous vinyl is now sold out, this is just a reminder that a Clear & Black Splatter 'Indie Shop Exclusive' version will be available around the release date, aswell as the mini gatefold CD.

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UNCUT feature GNOD's Donovan's Daughters as No 1 in their New Music 2018 Playlist

UNCUT feature GNOD's 'Donovan's Daughters' as No 1 in their New Music 2018 Playlist.

They say:

'Strap yourselves in for 15 minutes of pulverising drones from Gnod, along with the welcome return of The Black Dog (Spanners, anyone?), Eastern Mediterranean bacchanalia from The Turbans, elegant harpistry from Mary Lattimore and more.

Listen here: Uncut

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MIEN Things - Spotify Playlist

MIEN have a weekly Spotify playlist called 'Names On Record', this week they have included great tracks by SUNNS, The Earlies, Swans and Beak>.

Login into to Spotify & check out their weekly additions: Spotify

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Housewives play Haldern Pop Festival, Germany

Housewives join a stellar line in up for Haldern Pop festival on August the 9th-11th in Germany.

Tickets: Haldern Pop Tickets

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Soundblab review Anthroprophh - OMEGAVILLE

In 1998 Rocket Recordings put out their first release – a split single by The Heads and Lilydamwhite. Twenty years later one member from each band (guitarist Paul Allen and bassist Gareth Turner respectively) are still with Rocket. Their band (also featuring Turner’s partner from Big Naturals. drummer Jesse Webb) are called Anthroprophh. Omegaville is their third record on Rocket. With this album Allen is looking at Can’s Tago Mago and attempting to emulate the mixture of short, tight tracks and sprawling weird-outs.

Omegaville absolutely explodes out of the blocks with 2029. Under two-minutes of Wah-wah, shredding and Ladbroke Grove Hippie-Punk (Hawkwind, Pink Fairies, etc.). Dead Inside isn’t much longer and is equally explosive. At this point I think the Album of the Year debate is all over.....
Read the rest here: Soundblab

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Psych Insight review GNOD - Chapel Perilous

GNOD are something of a enigma for me. Looking back over their discography few can deny that there have been significant highpoints, but I have to admit not all of it has landed with me. This conundrum, I guess, comes with what seems to be a constant desire to move on, and to try something different. If you’re going to be experimental then not everyone is going to get the results all the time. So it was for me with the collective’s last album ‘Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine’, an album whose sentiments of the title I could fully subscribe to, but overall felt to me just a bit too obvious and unimaginative. Don’t get me wrong I think ‘Bodies For Money’ is one of the best tracks of last year, and stands out as a high-point in the GNOD oeuvre, but while I acknowledge that the album was intended to be a stripped back statement it really didn’t strike a chord with me at all, and it is a set of tracks that I’ve come back to on more than one occasion to try to rectify.

What I guess I’m trying to say here in what is, for me, an unusually negative introduction; is that I don’t automatically assume that anything that GNOD does is going to be something that I rave over. What I will attempt to do though is approach the band’s music with as open a mind as I can… so here goes…

Well what I can say straight away is that ‘Chapel Perilous’ has had a much more immediate effect on me, it seems to me that there is much more going on here, right down to how the album has been put together. ‘Donovan’s Daughters’ is a massive fifteen minute track which opens ‘Chapel Perilous’, apparently honed through live performances during the bands long 2017 tour. Setting off simply it is not long before the hallmark GNOD guitar starts kicking in, angular and sporadic… you’re left in no doubt who this is. Then when the vocals come in I’m struck how much this iteration of the collective are indebted to post punk. There’s definitely something of the early eighties about this track… and I mean this is a good way. There’s PiL, Wire, Gang of Four… but then as ‘Donovan’s Daughters’ continues to intensity you get a sense of that being subsumed by noise to a certain extent, although the Lydonesque voice persists even though it struggles to be heard...

Read the full review: Psych Insight Music

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Backseat Mafia reviews Anthroprophh - OMEGAVILLE

In their 20-year history, Rocket Recordings have orbited between twin planets; Fuzz and Wah and fewer guitarists have pioneered this more than Paul Allen, who not only appeared on the very first Rocket 7” with The Heads, but who as the front of Anthroprophh leads the forefront of exploration into the garage rock, filth laden frontiers.

OMEGAVILLE is the third release for the band on Rocket, set for release on 30th March from the power trio. Allen peddles his art alongside bassist Gareth Turner and drummer Jesse Webb.

We open with ‘2029’ which wastes no time in displaying its traditional, heavy rock roots with plenty of pleasing guitar slides overlaid with lashings of noise. The short track gives way quickly to lead track ‘Dead Inside’, another quick one two punch with its manic countenance and static tendencies. ‘Housing Act 1980’ begins in a similar vein, with its added sample vocals draws parallel with some of the early Crazy World of Arthur Brown offerings, before descending into heavily punctuated chaos. ‘Oakmoll’ is an instantly more melodic and more accessible piece with its remote sounding vocals, more obvious guitar riffs and motorik drum beat.

Read the whole review: Backseat Mafia


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Debaser reviews Mamuthones - Fear on the Corner

It roughly translates:

The album has a definitely engaging and easy-listening sound that consists of hypnotic loops, acid-psychedelic triples and the groove funk "Metal Box" ("Show Me") typically UK of the eighties and as such constitutes a certainly particular episode and worthy of attention. Rather. Precisely because of its peculiar and eccentric character and - despite the various references - a certain freshness and originality in the sounds, "Fear On The Corner" is a record of sure effect and that will respond to the tastes of a differentiated audience of listeners.

Read the full review in Italian here: Debaser

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New MIEN tracks to premiere on NTS today


Tom Furse is going to include a track or two from the forthcoming MIEN album on his NTS radio show today (Monday 26 March) from 12-2pm.

This will be the first time these track(s) have been played anywhere.

You can listen live here: NTS Live

The show will be archived on the site so if you miss it today it will be available to listen to not too long after here: NTS Arhcive

The MIEN album is released in under two weeks and you can preorder from here: Bandcamp

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22 Mar 2018

Mamuthones on Italian Radio - 5 bands inspired by Talking Heads

Mamuthones feature on Italian National Radio RAI 3 with the station talking about new David Byrne album and 5 bands influenced by Talking Heads.

In his new album, American Utopia, David Byrne is reunited with his comrade Brain Eno - producer of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Fear of Music and Remain in Light. At times the sound texture of those pieces from the late 70s: the Fela Kuti style rhythms, the Miles Davis collages, the inflections of the American television recruits, the caricature that Byrne made of the "Average American". The Station looked for 5 bands that in the 40 years have been influenced by Talking Heads and by their neurotic, metropolitan, mestizo mood.

RAI Radio

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The Independent Voice review Saturday's Rocket TWENTY Birthday Gig

REVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY RYAN WHITWELL / SHOTISON MEDIA

I headed to Islington’s The Garage for a full on day as the second date of Rocket Recordings’ 20th Birthday took place. Around 10 hours of a range of genres would be filling my ears courtesy of Gum Takes Tooth, Goat, Hey Colossus, Housewives, Gnoomes, Mamuthones and Temple ov BBV.

Temple ov BBV are a group formed of members from Gnod & Radar Men From The Moon, which explains why there were ten members on stage at The Garage. A huge soundscape of long form psych with the slow flowing numbers traversing the space and rattling the rib-cages of everyone in attendance.

A few crowd members were really into it, standing, eyes closed and absorbing the moment. I especially liked the penultimate number, the tantric beat continuing onward as a cacophony of noise and energy snuck up on me. 


Mamuthones were next up. The electro-indie style 4 piece from Italy performed a lot of upbeat numbers. They were a stark contrast to the previous band with some huge thumping bass from the drums, some great guitar work and various electronics from the two other members, including the vocalist who was surrounded by keys and buttons.......

Read the full review: The Independent Voice 


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19 Mar 2018

Watch Paul Allen made Anthroprophh 'Death Salad' Video



Watch the 'Death Salad' video made by Paul Allen (Anthroprophh) the 2nd track to be reveal from the new Anthroprophh album 'OMEGAVILLE'.

Pre-order here: Store

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Echoes And Dust Review Anthroprophh 'OMEGAVILLE'

Echoes And Dust review Anthroprophh 'OMEGAVILLE' album:

"Showcasing this pastiche of British life and culture in such a ferocious yet entertaining way".

It Reads:

It’s time to take a trip, one of many trips that Rocket Recordings have offered over the years, to the insanely twisted-psychedelic-rock-out land of Omegaville, the latest album by Anthroprophh. What’s to be found here? Only a manic rush of an experience that throws us through an almost satirical universe representative of our own, where the familiar elements of England feels warped and mutated into something wonderfully indulgent, whilst simultaneously feeling like a cosmic journey into worlds new and unknown, where nothing is predictable, where all rules are thrown out the windows into the streets of Omegaville, and where everyone of a certain disposition is sure to have a truly wonderful time....

Read the rest here: Echoes and Dust

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Pre-order here: Anthroprophh

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Echoes and Dust reveal new Anthroprophh track 'Death Salad'

We are super delighted to share 'Death Salad', the 2nd track from Anthroprophh's mindblowing album 'OMEGAVILLE'.
 

Anthroprophh, the three piece featuring Paul Allen (The Heads), Gareth Turner (Kuro/Big Naturals) and Jess Webb (Gnod/Big Naturals) monster new 2LP 'OMEGAVILLE', is released on 30th March.

Read what Echoes and Dust have to say about the album and watch the video here:
 

Echoes and Dust
 

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High praise has been coming in for what some are calling a 'masterpiece':

"Fans of The Heads might wish to look away now because I think that this might just be the best thing that Paul Allen has ever done. 
10/10" Psych Insight

"Possibly one of the most important albums you will own." 
Days of Purple and Orange

"Guaranteed to be one of the year’s best, brutal and intensely beautiful releases of the year." 
Get into This

"The Stooges demolishing MC5's dressing room with Lemmy-era Hawkwind turned up to 11 on a dusty tape deck." 
The Quietus

 

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Pre-order the album on LTD Double White/Black Splatter exclusively from here:
 

Vinyl / CD: Anthroprophh
 

Digital: http://smarturl.it/AOmegavilleAppleMusi
Stream: http://smarturl.it/AOmegavilleSpotify
 

The album is released on the 30 March 2018 worldwide and available on LP/CD/DL formats. 
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The Independent Voice reviews Rocket Twenty


They say:

I headed to Islington’s The Garage for a full on day as the second date of Rocket Recordings’ 20th Birthday took place. Around 10 hours of a range of genres would be filling my ears courtesy of Gum takes Tooth, Goat, Hey Colossus, Housewives, Gnoomes, Mamuthones and Temple ov BBV.

Temple ov BBV are a group formed of members from Gnod & Radar Men From The Moon, which explains why there were ten members on stage at The Garage. A huge soundscape of long form psych with the slow flowing numbers traversing the space and rattling the rib-cages of everyone in attendance. Temple_OV_BBVA few crowd members were really into it, standing, eyes closed and absorbing the moment. I especially liked the penultimate number, the tantric beat continuing onward as a cacophony of noise and energy snuck up on me.Temple_OV_BBV


Mamuthones were next up. The electro-indie style 4 piece from Italy performed a lot of upbeat numbers. They were a stark contrast to the previous band with some huge thumping bass from the drums, some great guitar work and various electronics from the two other members, including the vocalist who was surrounded by keys and buttons....

Read the rest here: Independent Voice

Photo of Temple OV BBV by Al Overdrive

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Moose and Hobbs say some words about Rocket Twenty


They say:

Blast into the future

Last weekend saw three days of loud. Three days of bands playing loud. I like bands playing loud so, obviously, I was there.

My travelling companions on this trip were Ellen, Rob and Simon, who had descended on The Smoke for the occasion, and also Jeremy on the Saturday. Over the course of the weekend I saw a whole range of bands but it was impossible to see everyone so I’m just going to focus on a few of my favourites who, for me, really stood out.

I started the weekend wishing that I’d arrived just a little earlier, as I only caught the last song from Flowers must Die and it sounded great; funky and bouncy is a good way to get things started. They were swiftly followed by Julie’s Haircut who played a cracking set with a little bit of jazzy sax and a lot of krauty-rock.

I spent all day Saturday at an archaeology conference (which was very very good BTW. See #lamas18 for some tweetage) and then sprinted over to The Garage straight afterwards to wreck my hearing. Unfortunately I’d missed Temple Ov BBV and, just to make it worse, my friends were all raving about them. 😦

Gnoomes, from Russia, reminded me of 1990. They’re that shoegazey moment before it went all fey and a bit too shimmery-dreampop. There was something about them that reminded me of The Pale Saints, although they don’t actually sound like The Pale Saints. They’re definitely the pop end of the weekend and I liked them...

Read the rest of the great review here: M&H

Photo of Bonnacons of Doom by Al Overdrive

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16 Mar 2018

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Feed the Rats Ltd repress up for presale


Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs debut album Feed the Rats gained huge praise and our first pressing of 1000 copies flew out of the door.

So, after a lot of emails from fans we have decided to do a new run on 'Molten Acid' (orange/grey) vinyl that is Ltd to 500 copies. The repress of the album still comes in a luxury diecut sleeve.

The album is released on 30 March however you can preorder a copy here: Bandcamp




Here is a photo of the first ones being manufactured at the pressing plant.

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Listen to exclusive DJ mix for 'Beat Juice' by MIEN


MIEN were asked by the Beat Juice to create a special DJ mix....so they did!!

Go and listen to it now, exclusively at: Beat Juice

MNMX001 tracklisting:
01. [intro]
02. Oleo Strut – Marc Barreca
03. The Clock – Ruth White
04. La Sinistre – Eurythmics
05. James – Cluster
06. A-Train – The Flying Lizards
07. Tchi Tchi Vox – Vox Populi!
08. Heptapod B – Jóhann Jóhannsson
09. Appears (Mini Verberum) – Botany
10. The Harbinger of Spring – Children of Alice
11. There’s Gonna Be a Storm – The Left Banke
12. Signal – Phew
13. Solomon’s Ring – The Black Lucifer
14. Love Without Sound – White Noise
15. Improvisation 2 – Al Lover
16. Black Habit ($hit and $hine remix) – MIEN
17. White Sands – Thor and Friends
18. Kreen Akrore – Paul McCartney
19. In the Red – Jenny Hval
20. Kalyani – Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies
21. Golden Hair – Syd Barrett
22. Swirling Sphere – Tony, Caro & John
23. Treatment – The Future and The Human League
24. Future Days – Can
25. Cloud Mountain – Tom Furse
26. Fire Breath – Joanna Brouk
27. Silberland – Riechmann
28. By This River – Brian Eno
John-Mark from MIEN said this about the MNMX001 mix:
“I grew up feeling mildly obsessed with 12” extended remixes and synth pop, which are definite influences on what I bring to MIEN. I wanted to blend these elements with other inspirations that formed our sound including industrial, psychedelia, musique concrete and krautrock. The original idea was to make something a little seedy and raw, something you’ll hear plenty of on our album.”

MIEN's debut album can be preordered on Ltd vinyl here: Bandcamp

Listen to their latest single Earth Moon here: Spotify

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