31 Mar 2017
Rocket probes – March playlist
Various – Fundraising Album for Amanda
(Fundraising compilation that features unreleased music by Gnoomes, Julie's Haircut, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Mike Bourne (Teeth of the Sea), Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation, Shit and Shine, Mamuthones, Gum Takes Tooth, Tomaga and many many more...essential you all buy this:
Fundraising Album for Amanda
Hey Colossus – The Guillotine
(They return with their third and probably best album for Rocket...its a killer!)
Hey Colossus
Temple Ov BBV – Temple Ov BBV
(Killer collaboration between Gnod and Radar Men from the Moon...post punk psych noise goodness)
Temple Ov BBV
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete – The sound of all things (Gnoomes remix)
(Gnoomes have created a highly impressive remix for the living room dance floor)
Lorelle Meets The Obsolete
Colin Potter – The Ghost Office
(Essential reissue of lo-fi kraut from 1980...Harmonia/Cluster motorik electronica, to proto-Spacemen 3 and Craig Leon, don't miss this!)
Colin Potter
Robedoor - Mage Image
(Our fave Californian’s are back with a new album on Hands in Dark)
Robedoor
Lucidvox – Дым / Dym
(Great psyched-out krautpunk/noisepop from our second favourite band from Russia)
Lucidvox
Pilgrims of Peace – The Slipper
(Highly stoned dubbed techno grooves...one for the heads)
Pilgrims of Peace
Harold Budd – Dark Star
(Great droning synth goodness from 1984)
Harold Budd
Marijata - This Is Marijata
(Nice horn driven afro grooves with the odd stab of fuzz)
Marijata
Time Is A Mountain – Tempi Campi
(More great jazzy psych from Sweden...what they put in the water there!!)
Time Is A Mountain
Various – Uzelli Psychedelic Anadolu
(Compilation of tracks from the 70/80s Turkish tape label)
Akbaba Ikilisi
Horse Lords – Interventions
(Instrumental repetitions...like Clearspot Beefheart meets Backdoor or Minutemen meets the Necks or Cave meets This Heat)
Horse Lords
Weidorje - Vilna
(Steve Davis dropped this into his DJ set when we saw him recently and the room erupted...70s French jazzprog feat members of Heldon and Magma)
Weidorje
Snapped Ankles – I want my minutes back
(Great slice of repetitive postpunk pop that does call to mind the kraut punk grooves of Mamuthones)
Snapped Ankles
Oneida – Saturday (Live At Secret Project Robot)
(Track from new Live album recorded in 2015)
Oneida
Wapassou – Femmes-Fleurs
(Great grooved out 70s fuzz psych instrumental from France)
Wapassou
Girls in Synthesis – The Mound
(Nice bit of noisy krautpunk from London)
Girls in Synthesis
Scorpion Violente – The Knife
(Another great slab of psyched-out dark electro from the Italians)
Scorpion Violente
Th' Faith Healers - Delores
(Great track of repetitive noise rock...has a proper krautpunk stomp in the last half)
Th' Faith Healers
Pact Infernal – Circle VIII (Fraud)
(Tribal grooves and drones)
Pact Infernal
Niagara – Amarelo
(Repetitive grooves and wah guitars...think Tony's era Gnod but a bit more techno)
Niagara
Esplendor Geométrico - AL-GIABR
(Spanish repetitive machine grooves from 1992)
Esplendor Geométrico
Faust – So Far
(Faust's second album takes on a VU vibe...still sounds fresh today)
Faust
Jóhann Jóhannsson – Sicario OST
(Another flawless soundtrack...has a similar vibe to Gnod's Infinity Machines in places)
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Screaming Trees – Buzz Factory
(Perfect album of fuzzwah filled proto-grunge psych pop for the start of spring)
Screaming Trees
Listen to our (updated monthly) Rocket Probes Spotify playlist:
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Introducing Temple Ov BBV – the new collaboration between Gnod and Radar Men from the Moon
The album is released in a special diecut sleeve and on Ltd clear/black colour-in-colour vinyl and can be preordered here: Rocket Shop
Or buy the download version from here: iTunes
Listen to the first track to be revealed from the album here: Rocket YouTube
The press release reads:
In 1965 the Dutch scientist and psychedelic pioneer Bart Huges embarked on a personal journey by taking an electric dentist’s drill and using it to open a hole in his skull, theorising that this measure - known as trepanation and chronicled in this book ‘The Mechanics Of Brain Blood Volume (BBV) - would result in enhanced mental power, and in effect a permanent high for the owner of the skull in question. Fifty-one years on, in 2016, this act formed an inspiration for a meeting of mind and matter on an entirely different level, as Salford’s imperious collective Gnod locked horns for a collaboration with Dutch psychedelic and experimental force Radar Men From The Moon, also originally set to take place in the Netherlands, at Eindhoven Psych Lab.
Written and recorded in only four days, the result is four uncompromising transmissions, informed equally by stark intensity and hypnotic repetition. ‘Temple Of BBV’ sees both acts spurring the other on to higher peaks of intensity. “Both bands had agreed from the off that we were not just gonna go in there and just jam and play over each other for hours in the hope that something good would happen” elaborates Gnod’s Paddy Shine. “We went in with the mindset of creating sound structures which turned out to be a very gratifying process”
Powerful testimony to the expansive and exploratory nature of both bands, ‘Temple Of BBV’ is a radical foray into the unknown that exists firmly outside of genre or classification. Aptly, the set will be performed once again as part of Gnod’s residency at this years Roadburn Festival. The collaboration maps out intimidating psychic landscapes that revel in challenge and confrontation, and appear set to enter the skulls of the uninitiated by any means necessary.
You can see Temple Ov BBV play a very rare show at this years Roadburn Festival. Tickets can be bought here: Roadburn
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Echoes and Dust and Freq reviews Gnod's new album
E&D reads:
How the fuck is it that we seem to get another excellent Gnod album every year? Whether it’s 2015’s extraordinary triple-album, Infinity Machines, 2016’s brutalist classic The Mirror or this year’s bold, defiant and sloganeering JUST SAY NO TO THE PSYCHO RIGHT-WING CAPITALIST FASCIST INDUSTRIAL DEATH MACHINE, the statement holds true; every year the band releases a new masterpiece and in addition to that incredible feat of musicianship, they’ve also contributed to 2017 likely being Rocket Recording’s best year to date as well as releasing an incredible ambient collaboration in between their releases on their Tesla Tapes label with Anthony Childs...
Read the rest here: Echoes and Dust
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Freq reads:
There will be many howls, and here’s one of the first out of the blocks. Gnod can meander, at times (and I like their meanderings), but here the rage is palpable; this is a headbutt into the side of a fast-moving machine. Hawkwind on double-speed, ditching the mushrooms for Brown Acid and amphetamania.
I mean, it’s not all like this – but the album is dominated by riffs; monstrous and head-shaking and world-annihilating as they are. This is still psych music, but veiled in exasperation and threat; psych music that is distinctly unhinged and hanging on a thread.
Read the rest here: Freq
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GNOD's new album released today
You can buy the album in all good record shops or from us here: Rocket Bandcamp
The album is picking up praise everywhere and the band are heading out on an extensive tour to celebrate it's release:
April
13 / The Golden Lion / Todmorden / UK
14 / Elektrowerkz / London / UK
15 / Instant Chavires / Paris / France
16 / Mag 4 / Bruselles / Belgium
20-23 / Roadburn / Tilburg / Netherlands
25 / Cave 12 / Geneve / Switzerland
26 / Sonic / Lyon / France
27 / Blah Blah / Torino / Italy
28 / Bronson / Ravenna / Italy
29 / Gromka / Lubiana / Slovenia
30 / Donau Festival / Krems / Austria
May
02 / Klub Famu / Prague / Czech Republic
03 / Urban Spreee / Berlin / Germany
04 / Gouvernment / Gent / Belgium
06 / Green Door Store / Brighton / UK
18 / Portland Arms / Cambridge / UK
19 / The Island / Bristol / UK
20 / The Crypt / Bristol / UK
21 / Church Of St. John / Bristol / UK
24 / The Cluny / Newcastle / UK
30 / Tape Denmark / Aarhus / Denmark
31 / 1000Fryd / Aalborg / Denmark
June
01 / Loppen / Copehagen / Denmark
02 / Truckstop Alaska / Gothenborg / Sweden
03 / Plan B / Malmo / Sweden
04 / Tubnitz / Stubnitz / Germany
08 / Cardiff / Moon Cub / UK
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30 Mar 2017
GOAT to play WOMAD 2017
WOMAD 2017 takes place 27th – 30th July at Charlton Park near Malmesbury.
More info is available here: Womad
You can buy your tickets here: Tickets
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Ltd run Gnod and Goat tshirts available now for preorder
We are making some ltd tshirts that you can preorder today.
First up is a Gnod – Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine shirt printed black on red.
Second is the extremely popular Goatman tshirt, white/red prints onto Black and Dark Heather (a dark grey marl) shirts.
You can order the shirts from here:
Gnod
Goat black
Goat dark heather
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29 Mar 2017
Josefin Öhrn joins the Whyte Horses Experience at the Barbican
The details from Whyte Horses are:
On May 11th our very own Whyte Horses descend on the Barbican Centre bringing their unique brand of Mancunian psychedelic pop and head-spinning visual collages in a rare live appearance.
Now added to the bill are La Roux Stealing Sheep and the children of St. Barts Choir. The evening will see a full performance of their 2016 debut album Pop or Not, with previously announced special guest artists the go! team BadlyDrawnBoy Official and Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation also taking up vocal duties on unheard songs and cover versions of obscure world oddities.
For tickets and further info follow the link: Barbican
Whyte Horses have also compiled a playlist including tracks by Josefin to accompany the show here: Barbican Blog
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Gnoomes reveal Tschak! tour dates
Gnoomes are heading over to the UK to promote the release of their latest album 'Tshcak!' in June:
Gnoomes
Tschak! UK tour dates
June:
01 / Purple Turtle / Reading
02 / Open / Norwich
04 / Soup Kitchen / Manchester (Info/tickets)
06 / Cluny / Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (Info/tickets)
07 / Broadcast / Glasgow
10 / Bootleg Social / Blackpool
12 / Brewhouse / London
More TBC
Plus the band also have this show in May:
May 26 / Cardinal / Schaffhausen / Switzerland
You can buy new album Tschak! and debut album Ngan! from here: Rocket shop
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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and Flowers Must die to play Supersonic Festival
We are extremely proud to announce that Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and Flowers Must die are to join KURO and GNOD (Anonymous Bash) at this years Supersonic Festival.
Information and tickets are available here: Supersonic
The Rocket team will be travelling up to Birmingham for the three day event, so see you down the front...
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28 Mar 2017
Tidal asks Josefin Öhrn what does Velvet Underground mean to her
Tidal asked several artists what the Velvet Underground meant to them – Josefin Öhrn said:
What has the Velvet Underground & Nico meant for you and how has it inspired your own work?
It has meant everything, most music that we’ve related to can be traced to Velvet, not only musically then lyrically and as a perspective on the world. It was Velvet that we bonded when we first met, before we started writing together.
Why did the album/band intrigue you in the first place?
I think the contrast between beauty and brute noise, of lullaby and rock’n’roll, I was just a child when I heard “Sunday Morning,” “Waiting For the Man” and “Run Run Run” and loved them without having a clue to what they were about. Then I was really into Celine and Genet and that just tied in with Velvet’s music without really understanding why. These beautiful, menacing beings that seem to occupy a terrifying world that is just where I wanted to live. I was absolutely absorbed when I first heard it. And who doesn’t want to look like Nico, John Cale or Lou Reed in 1967 or all three?
How do you consider their debut album 50 years down the road?
Goes without saying that it’s a masterpiece – and it’s scary how it seems to just change into something relevant and new for each period that passes.
Your definite VU moment?
Seeing the sun rise in Andalucía after a really really long drive with White Light/White Heat on repeat.
Read the full piece here: Tidal
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Rumore publish photos of Julie's Haircut show in Torinio
See the full range here: Rumore
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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation headline Lisbon Psych Fest
The night before Mad Vibes on 7 April Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation are headlining a great line-up at Lisbon Psych Festival.
Tickets and information here: Lisbon Psych Fest
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27 Mar 2017
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation play Mad Vibes Festival
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation are playing Mad Vibes festival in Madrid on Saturday 8 April
Taboo
C/ San Vicente Ferrer, 23 (Malasaña), 28004 Madrid, Spain
More info here: Mad Vibes
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24 Mar 2017
Loud and Quiet interview Gnoomes
t reads:
Gnoomes – the Russian trio who fought conscription and prison to make their drug-free psych album
'Tschak!' was made without any mind-altering substances whatsoever, under quite extraordinary circumstances
Words by Daniel Dylan Wray
“Being in prison was quite a psychedelic experience,” says Gnoomes’ vocalist and bass player Alex Pyankov, speaking from his home in Perm, Russia. Despite rather obstructive hurdles like imprisonment, his band have just released their second album ‘TSCHAK!’ via Rocket Recordings, a label that is home to various incarnations and miscreants of psychedelia and esoterica, such as Goat, Teeth of the Sea, Hey Colossus, Gnod and Hills.
Gnoomes – a three piece consisting of Pyankov, Pavel Fedoseev and Dmitriy Konyushevich – released their first album on Rocket in 2015. ‘Ngan!’ is a four-track album (two of which take up 30 minutes alone) that burrows deep into the elongated groove template of the psych genre. Through its explorations in repetition it allows ripples of guitar to push and pull the momentum in porpoise waves of swelling...
See the rest here: Loud and Quiet
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23 Mar 2017
Soundblab gives Gnod 10/10 review for new album
It reads:
Who puts a run of classic albums together these days? The sort of thing that Stevie Wonder, David Bowie or Neil Young would do in the 70s. A little sprint of three or four, 9 or 10 rated albums in as many years. Gnod are doing it right now with Infinity Machines, Mirror and Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine. And, like Young or Bowie in the 70s, you don't know what they're going to do next.
Feedback, driving drums and then a totally moronic riff start Bodies For Money. They are joined by Paddy Shine shouting from low down in the mix. The energy and anger levels are high, the sound is beautiful. It's somewhere between Hawkwind and Black Flag, with an Anarcho-Punk/Post-Punk edge. The changes between all-out noise and riffing are brilliant and the guitar solo is 'and then my mind split open' insane. People starts with a strange loop and a strange drum pattern. An immense bass comes in. Paddy shouts. A scratchy Post-Punk guitar riff turns up low in the mix. It's quite like Killing Joke. There's not much to this track but it's still exhilarating as Paddy's voice is warped like Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers...
Read the rest here: Soundblab
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The Quietus give GNOD's new album their 'Lead Review'
It reads:
In December last year, a video went viral of trainee producer Nobuo Kawakami presenting an AI project to film director/animator Hayao Miyazaki. He showed to Miyazaki how the CGI animation “...learned to move by using its head. It doesn't feel any pain, and has no concept of protecting its head.” Miyazaki, though, was repulsed by Kawakami's work: “Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is... I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
In their defense, the producer was using his imagination in order to create something distanced from humanity as we recognise it – a technique horror artists frequently employ. But what Miyazaki, perhaps, was repulsed by was the removal of the figure's personality and the elimination of its potential pain – the reduction of a familiar human-like body parts to a limping mannequin. But whatever constitutes 'personhood' for Kawakami seems eerily out of mind during the presentation, only expressing interest in the mechanical processes involved in the figure's movement...
Read the rest here: The Quietus
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Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation play Green Man Courtyard show
Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation have been confirmed to play Greenman's Courtyard mini festival in Kings Cross at the end of May. They are playing the same day as fellow Swedes Dungen...gonna be a bit special!!
Full details can be found here: Greenman
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Heathmofo reviews Gnoomes Tschak!
It says:
Russian band Gnoomes return with their second album on Rocket Recordings, playing their on brand of what they call ‘Stargaze’. I wrote about their first album on these pages , and it reached the semi finals of my Best of 2015, only being knock out by eventual winners Dead Sea Apes . The obvious thing would be to compare this album to the high standards of their debut. After a few listens I think this would be a little unfair so, all I’m going to say is that this album seems far more expansive.
The warped opener ‘Super Libido Awake’ is a synth heavy builder that kind of sets the tone for the album in general. It sounds industrial but not in a harsh way, this is more of a light and pulsating soundscape.The following track ‘Maria’ shows the bands almost pop psych sensibilities as does ‘Cascias’. Both of these tracks kind of reminded me of Julian Cope’s debut solo album. It is at this point the band enter a more experimental phase drawing on Tangerine Dream, Cluster and Neu! Everything seem to meld and flow with a more liquid kind of feel...
Read the rest here: Heathmofo
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22 Mar 2017
Rocket one week spring sale – 25% off everything
To celebrate the days getting longer and the sun (hopefully) shining brighter we have decided to do a 'one week spring sale' where you can buy all Rocket releases at an amazing 25% off.
Go to the Rocket shop here: Rocket Bandcamp
And input the code: springsale
The sale starts from now and end at midnight on Wednesday the 29th March.
We have had some warehouse finds at our distributor, and have put them up on the shop, so releases that have not been available for a while are also available with 25% off .
Things like:
Capra Informis – Womb of the Wild
Mamuthones – Symphony for the Devil
Oneida – Positions
Lay Llamas – Ostro
Mugstar / Oneida – Collisions 02
Mamuthones / Evil Blizard – Collisions 03
+ more
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21 Mar 2017
Goat reveal exclusive 'Goatfuzz' 7" on splatter vinyl for Record Store Day
We are excited to announce the release of a new special ltd edition 7” for Record Store Day by Goat.
The single is a previously unreleased version of Goatfuzz – one of the stand out tracks off their latest album Requiem.
Goatfuzz’s heavy-groove and addictive fuzz riff became a firm live favourite on last years European tour and summer festival appearances and this 'shorter' version is perfect for the 7” format.
We are also pleased to reveal that the b-side of the 7” is a brand new, unreleased track called Goatfizz. The tracks spaced out, psych sounds are underpinned by a killer repetitive drum and bass groove. The end result reveals another unique take on ‘world music’ by Goat.
The two colour ‘splatter vinyl’ 7” is ltd to 2,000 copies worldwide (500 for the UK).
More info about Record Store Day here: Record Store Day
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Julie's Haircut and Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation feature on latest MOJO CD
If you pick-up the latest issue of Mojo with Pink Floyd on the cover you will be greeted by tracks from Julie's Haircut and Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation on the cover mount CD.
More info about the issue here: Mojo Magazine
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Son of Marketing reviews Julie’s Haircut – Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin
It reads:
Independent in an independent musical environment. This is the status of the italian band Julie’s Haircut, active since 1994, who never wanted to be captured in a specific scene. That’s why they usually hang out at international circuits and you cannot recognize their italian origins, except from a delicate attention to melodies. This is the premise for their seventh album, Invocation and Ritual Dance of My Demon Twin, out now for the British label Rocket Recordings, in which you will find their personal interpretation of psychedelia, a soft and meditative one. This interpretation is nourished by post rock rides, without the typical explosions of the genre. So this album is to be listened as a good synthesis of post rock and psych sound.
Bass vapors introduce the quietness of “Zukunft”, from the solemn gait of a delicate electric piano to the incipit of a tense drum which opens the second part of the song, in which noise and a far sax duet. An episode like “The Fire Sermon” offers an intimate journey in which drums lead the dance. “Orpheus Rising” is delicate with its twist of trumpet, guitar, bass and drumming. “Deluge” in the beginning is a hard psych track, with a shouting sax in evidence, while suddenly the music stops leaving empty floydian spaces brushed by a warm trumpet. At the end the song explodes in a volcano of distorted guitars. Some other tracks offer a more psychedelic side of the band, but the real plus of this album is its attitude to offer a wide range of trips to the listener.
You will not fall in love with this music because it is not made for emotional involvement, it is a music for brain and reflections, to abandon oneself to the flow.
See the review here: Son of Marketing
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20 Mar 2017
Vinyl Factory put Hills – Alive at Roadburn in their '10 vinyl releases of the week'
They say:
Hills – Alive At Roadburn
(Rocket Recordings)
These days the word psychedelic gets thrown against pretty much anything with a guitar but this is the real deal right here – the new set from Sweden’s Hills in the shape of their titanic Alive At Roadburn. Four sides, four songs, each one clocking in at over 13 minutes and built on hypnotic grooves, spiralling guitars and all sorts of magic only some can do…and Hills are the band to beat. There’s limited colour vinyl out there. God bless Rocket.
See the full piece here: Vinyl Factory
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Photos of Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation live at the Hare & Hounds
Here's a great gallery of photos by Birmingham Review of Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation live at the Hare & Hounds.
See gallery here: Birmingham Review
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Get into this reviews KURO live in Liverpool
It reads:
If we can trust our senses anymore, we’d say the longest and most intense set was of the headlining act KURO. Mostly using electric contrabass and violin and sometimes other electronics as well, the duo started off with a repeated dark motif. The next couple of minutes saw a series of layered lines over that motif, alternating with calmer phrases that sonically seemed to represent Asian deserts.
With the projected spiralling background, KURO attempted to first hypnotise the audience and once that was done, torture their captives. What a delight!
The night came to an end to a unanimous satisfaction of seeing something exciting, unique and truly brave and immersive. Hopefully, this is one the many successful adventures that will take place under the banner of New Music for Old Machines.
See the full piece here: Get into this
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Circuit Sweet say some words about Hey Colossus track 'Experts Toll'
It reads:
Flourishing where sparks fly between primal rock brawn and artrock grace, Hey Colossus have undergone a spectacular metamorphosis in the last three years. Previously famed for their unflinchingly abject and pulverising noiserock assaults, the 2015 Rocket Recordings double-drop of In Black And Gold and Radio Static High displayed not only a band with a work rate to put most all their contemporaries to shame, but one arriving at an atmospheric and rewarding sound with as much flair for the beguiling as the barbaric – within these grooves were everything from Amphetamine Reptile swagger to Bad Seeds drama, dub dynamics to krautrock repetition, yet all in a coherent assault that transcended the sum of its parts with depraved style and graceful finesse.
Changes may have been afoot in the Hey Colossus camp, yet their latest transmission The Guillotine shows that they’re in no danger of neglecting either their prolific drive or their charismatic flair. Darker and more brooding than their last two records, it’s also perhaps their most richly melodic to date – the interplay of their three guitar lineup has never sounded more fluent than on these eight songs, nor their songcraft more well-defined...
Read the rest here: Circuit Sweet
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17 Mar 2017
AHRKH premiere's his Golden Ratio Frequencies show on NTS tomorrow
AHRKH (Alex from Gnod) has a new monthly NTS show starting tomorrow...
This is what Alex says:
∞▲∞▲∞ GOLDEN RATIO FREQUENCIES∞▲∞▲∞ ,
STARTS TOMORROW SAT 18th FROM 12:00 till 14:00... PLAYING TRANCE INDUCERS, STRESS REDUCERS, SONIC MEDITATIONS, SUN SALUTATIONS, DEEP VIBRATIONS, DRONE EMANATIONS AND SETTING YOU UP FOR A WEEKEND OF RE-CALIBRATION... KEEP IT LOCKED...
You can tune in from here: NTS
MESSAGE FROM THE AHRKH:
SO HEY ALL, IF YOU TUNED IN YOU PROBABLY WONDERED WHY YOU DIDNT HEAR MY DEEP DRONES AND GOLDEN RATIO FREQUENCIES.. BUGS IN THE SYSTEM, GLITCH IN THE MATRIX, MY SHOW DID NOT PLAY.... WILL BE RESCHEDULED... KEEP AN EAR AND YOUR THIRD EYE OUT FOR RE-SCHEDULED TRANSSSSSSMISSSISONSSSSS....AINT NOTHING BUT A TING RE CHANNELING FROM THE ASTRAL PLANES SOON
LUV FROM THE AHRKH
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Hills Alive at Roadburn released today
PLEASE NOTE: THE ALBUM PLAYS AT 45RPM
You can buy the album here: Rocket Shop
Like their predecessors unholy trinity of Pärson Sound, International Harvester and Träd Gräs och Stenar, Hills penchant to stretch out beyond, performing what feels like openly casual exhortations into intricate eastern tones and primal hypnotic rhythms.
Echoes and Dust
Soundblab
Psych Insight
The band are currently in the studio writing the follow up to their highly acclaimed last album Frid.
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16 Mar 2017
Salthouse Bottles to stock Rocket IPA
The lovely people at Salthouse Bottle shop in Brockley in London are stocking the latest batch of Rocket's 'One Giant Leap' IPA – brewed by Brewage A Trois.
Salthouse Bottles came across it at the Stoke Newington Beer Festival and were impressed by it enough to want to stock it!
So, get yourselves down there and pick up a bottle or 5!
Address and opening times can be found here: Salthouse
Follow Brewage on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/brewageatrois
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Backseat Mafia say some words on Flowers Must Die's 'After Gong'
It reads:
This new video for ‘After Gong’ is the second release from the forthcoming Flowers Must Die album ‘Kompost’, due to be released on 28th April via Rocket Recordings. I’m sure we can all agree it’s a fitting tribute for a band to honour the memory of a fallen friend by dedicating a song to them. This new track does exactly that as band member Rickard Daun explains. “The track originally had the working title ’Efter Maten’ (After Dinner), but we changed it to ‘After Gong’ to pay tribute to Gilli Smyth. The Gong member who died of pneumonia around the time when we would name the song”.
The video itself opens with the captivating hypnotic potency of a Rank Films fanfare. A psychedelic ritual of noir cinematics and infinitely looping scenes of the macabre. It could easily be the product of a Fritz Lang experiment, had a he occupied a secret base under the Moomin Mountain. Or, as the band put it “It is a spacey, manic song with horns, and the most verse-chorus-based from Flowers Must Die so far”. The new album follows on from the six-piece Swedish outfits sold out EP ‘Sista Valsen’, debut UK shows (including sets at Supernormal and Liverpool Psych Fest), ‘Hit’ and this, the LPs first two releases...
See in full here: Backseat Mafia
Preorder the album 'Kompost' here: Rocket
The band are heading out to play some shows in April:
13 April / Kraken / Stockholm / Sweden
14 April / Crypt / Linkoping / Sweden
25 April / The Prince Albert / Brighton / UK
26 April / The Shacklewell Arms / London / UK
27 April / The Full Moon / Cardiff / UK
28 April / The Cube / Bristol / UK
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