31 Jul 2017

Rocket Probes – July playlist



Flowers Must Die – Compilation
(Great comp of rare compilation tracks by the great)
Flowers Must Die

BNNT feat. Mats Gustafsson - The Last Illiterate
(We love this – so much so we very nearly put it out!)
BNNT

Hans Zimmer – Submarine
(Teeth of the Sea sounding track from the rather special Dunkirk soundtrack)
Hans Zimmer

1000 Russos – Distress Distress
(Nice sounding Krauty post punk on Fuzz Club)
1000 Russos

Richard Pinhas – Dronz 5 Hamburg
(Taken from the split EP with Camera – nice track of wah synths, noise drones and jazz rhythms)
Richard Pinhas

Executive Slacks – 30 Years
(Fuzzy post punk/EBM)
Executive Slacks

Embryo –Music of today
Killer groove on this krautjazz track)
Embryo

Kalyanji Anandji - Dharmatma Theme Music (Sad)
(Great bit of groove n' fuzz Indian soundtrack music)
Kalyanji Anandji

MXLX – Kicking Away at the Decrepit Walls til the Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru the Cracks
(Really good sonic journey from Matt Team (brick/Fairhorns/ex Beak etc etc) Loveridge)
MXLX

Niagara – Comboios EP
(New three track 7" from the Portuguese dance act, dubby, repetitive and awkward)
Niagara

The Myrrors – Hasta La Victoria
(Another great release of repetitive psyched grooves with a 70s Swedish vibe)
The Myrrors

Burzum – Rundgang um Rie Transzendentale Säule Der Singularität 
(Bit of a special atmospheric synth track to fall into)
Burzum

Manfred Mann – Travelling Lady
(Stoned n' grooved jazzrock – first track off their great '69 Vertigo album Chapter 3 Vol 1)
Manfred Mann 

The Space Spectrum – The head nodding King
(Nice final track on their new album on Drone Rock records)
The Space Spectrum

Tradition – The Creepy Crawl
(Heady space dub from 1980)
Tradition

Benny Blue – Mr Racket
(Cocaine disco-rock from '78 Germany)
Benny Blue

Metallica – Kill 'em All
("No life 'till leather...")
Metallica

NTS – Various DJs
(NTS is probably the most important station on the radio right now. From friends like Cherrystones, Anthony Chalmers, Music to Ease Your Disease, One Teslam Tom Furse, Shit & Shine etc to great DJs like Elena Colombi, Chuggy, Weatherhall, Votel, Loose Bones, Reign Set and the many, many others....tune in!!)
NTS

Listen to our monthly updated 'Rocket Probes' Spotify playlist here:

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Photos of Goat live at Brixton Academy by Al Overdrive



Here is a quick taster of photos from Saturday's GOAT show at Brixton Academy taken by the great Al Overdrive.

More to come soon.

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28 Jul 2017

GOAT at Brixton Academy is The Guardian's gig of the week


They say:

1 Goat
Fans of the Swedish psyche enigmas not only get the usual abstract maskwork and shamanic weirdness found at a “normal” Goat show, but this week Ouija-pop supergroup the Moonlandingz and songwriter Jane Weaver join in the fusty, transcendent festivities. 
O2 Academy Brixton, SW9, 29 July

See the full piece here: The Guardian

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Drowned in Sound interview GOAT


Ahead of their shows at Womad today and at Brixton Academy tomorrow DIS have interviewed GOAT – it reads:

When my phone gets buzzed by one of GOAT’s members (they’ve never revealed their actual identities, understandably enjoying the privacy of anonymity), I apologise for the lateness of the call. Before I can begin my homogenous line of questioning he coolly dismisses my concerns and asks if I know it’s still sunny at 11pm during a Swedish Summer. I confessed I did not. “The sun is up, I’m right now by the sea, and it’s quite beautiful.” Initially disarming, his digressions about nature and musical niches – at one stage he leaves his phone to scramble through his most recently played artists to tell me about “this cool African band from the 70s and 80s” – become compelling and fascinating. The impression I’d inferred from previous interviews signalled this mysterious, unchatty figure, but the reality couldn’t be further from the truth. GOAT – which I’ll designate my interviewee for the sake of syntactic flow/convenience – was funny, laid back, and infectiously passionate about music.

He reminded me of strangers you become festival friends with, warm-hearted music obsessives you fondly remember losing their shit to an obscure R&B 7” during the silent disco. In the most old-school sense, GOAT care about the music; its joy, its imprints, its purity, and its independence from politics and projected narratives...

Read the rest here: DIS

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26 Jul 2017

Soundi reviews Flowers Must Die's album Kompost

Roughly translated it reads:

"Psychedelia has been going strong in Sweden for quite a while now. One of the most crucial labels in this movement is Rocket, whose roster includes among others Goat, Gnod, Gnoomes, Julie's Haircut and Hills.

Flowers Must Die, founded in 2006 in Linköping, adds a beautiful contribution to an already impressive heap of music.

On top of sixties style psychedelia, the six-piece group has added a hefty diet of Hawkwind and krautrockers such as Can, Amon Düül II and Ash Ra Tempel (the band name actually comes from one of their songs).

The name of the game is feisty improvisation and intense build ups, not that far from Circle, but more in an acid mood. The steadily expanding hypnoticism of the songs reminds one of the cosmic moment when strong psychedelics kick in.

The music, at times soulful and funky, is mostly instrumental, but there is some more traditional singing on the track Don't You Leave Me Now. The guitarists Sven Walan and Johan Höglund are in fine form overall, delivering tasty sounds utilizizing various effects. Especially the distorted riff of Why? is splendidly humoristic. However, the real ace up the band's sleeve is synth player Rickard Daun, who manages to combine trippy soundscapes seamlessly with tighter jams. Flute and a saxophone also appear in the mix, adding colour to the rich whole, that maintains its tension throughout the album."

See the review here: Soundi

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Housewives are headlng out for some shows

Housewives are going to be celebrating the release of their Rocket album 'FF061116' with a string of shows:

18/8 - Bristol - Surrey Vaults
19/8 - London - Cafe Oto (Album launch – playing as a seven piece)
23/8 - Nottingham - JT Soar Space
24/8 - Leeds - Wharf Chambers
25/8 - Glasgow - Broadcast
26/8 - Manchester - The Soup Kitchen
27/8 - Sheffield - Picture House Social
02/9 - Toulouse - Baignade Interdite Festival
13/9 - Paris - La Mécanique Ondulatoire 
14/9 - Jurancon
15/9 - Marseille - L'Embobineuse 
16/9 - Lyon - Le Sonic
17/9 - Strasbourg

You can preorder the LP on Ltd blue vinyl here: Housewives

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Hills to play Reverence Festival in September


Hills have ben confirmed to play a rare live show Reverence Festival in Portugal on weekend 8/9 September – they are joining the great Träd, Gräs & Stenar as well as Esben and the Witch, The Guts etc etc

This is going to be Hills ONLY live show this year.
Not to be missed

More information here: Reverence

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Kuro to support Helen Money


Kuro follow their appearances at Supersonic and Supernormal Festivals with two shows supporting the great Helen Money:

19 September / The Cube / Bristol Tickets
21 September / The Vicroria Dalston / London Tickets

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25 Jul 2017

Liverpool Psych Fest announce day splits


Liverpool have revealed their day splits for this weekends festival.

Gnod and Julie's Haircut are playing Friday.
And Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are playing Saturday.

Info and tickets can be bought from here: Liverpool

Gonna be a blinder weekend as always!

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Housewives reveal new video for track 'Excerpt 2'



London four piece Housewives have revealed a video for the track 'Excerpt 2' taken from their forthcoming album 'FF061116' – their first for Rocket. The Ltd LP will be released on 18 August.

Watch the video above

And read what The Quietus say about it here: The Quietus

‘FF061116’ is split into seven excerpts and built on powerful repetition, it’s a mind-melding travail into abstraction and abjection which draws on post-punk, jazz, drone, electronic and avant-garde tropes to create an unclassifiable assault that feels oddly timeless - innovative, invigorating and bare-boned yet tapping into a uniquely English lineage that extends back to the 1970s and forward, into the unknown. 

You can preorder the album on special blue vinyl – ltd to 200 copies here: Rocket Bandcamp

The band are also playing some shows:

18 Aug UK Bristol Surrey Vaults 
19 Aug UK London Café Oto 
24 Aug UK Leeds Wharf Chambers
26 Aug UK Manchester Soup Kitchen 
27 Aug UK Sheffield Audacious Art Experiment 
02 Sep FR Aiguelèze Baignade Interdite

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24 Jul 2017

The Guardian reviews Milhões de Festa – feat Gnod/Faust, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and Big Naturals from 2016


It says:

There has been a noticeable revitalisation of the club scene in Portugal, not to mention parallel upshifts in the country’s rock and pop over the last few years. Several waves of African influence have helped cement Angolan kuduro as a dynamic creative force, in both the mainstream via popular acts such as (the now dormant) Buraka Som Sistema a decade ago to the more recent and relatively underground batida scene, centred round the incredibly vital Príncipe Discos label – a focal point for the kuduro/kizomba/tarraxinha/grime/house/techno hybrid sound which was incubated in Lisbon’s poorer districts before emanating outwards toward the rest of the country.


There are numerous reasons for all of this, according to Portuguese music promoter Joaquim Durães, such as a reawakened sense of national cultural pride – but he adds that the country’s liberalisation of drug laws in 2001 has played its role as well. Now less likely to find themselves in “sketchy” and “stressful” situations, musicians (well, the ones who seek chemical and herbal solutions to.. 

Read the full review here: The Guardian

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Roundhouse says HOUSEWIVES are one of the top 5 bands to check out


They say:

Housewives 
My favourite London band right now. Where the previous bands in this list have some kind of semblance of structure and form, Housewives are built on absolutely not having any. Repetitious, taut, spiky guitar loops play over corrugated iron drums, drilling and drilling further into your ears. Gang Of Four and Wire started this but Housewives will finish it. Think of it as the antidote to Ed Sheeran headlining Glastonbury. And go and see them live. New album out on Rocket later this year.

Read the full piece here: Housewives

Preorder Housewives new album FF061116 here: Bandcamp

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Goat hijack The Quietus's Instagram


Goat have been approached by The Quietus to take over their instagram account while they are in the UK for their Brixton Academy show and performance at Womad.

The takeover should start on Thursday and go on until the band arrive home on Sunday.

See what The Quietus say about it here: The Quietus

Follow them here: @thequietus and #GoatWeaverLandingz

Tickets for Goat's Brixton Academy show can be bought here: See

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New special vinyl version of Goat's World Music up for presale

We have a new version of World Music currently in production. It is a blue/purple 'colour-in- colour' vinyl and is ltd to 800 copies world wide.

You can preorder it from us here: Bandcamp

See the band this weekend at Womad and a massive show at Brixton Academy, tickets here: See

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21 Jul 2017

Stage times for Goat's Brixton Academy show


Next Saturday Goat will be playing their biggest ever headline show at Brixton Academy.

The stage times have been revealed and they are as follows:

6:00pm Doors 
7:45pm Jane Weaver 
9:00pm The Moonlandingz 
10:30pm Goat 
00:00 End 

Also now confirmed, from doors and between acts are Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia and Bad Vibrations DJs!

Tickets can be bought from here: See

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Supernormal schedule is revealed


Only three weeks until the best weekend of the year is upon us and Supernormal have released the set time, so if you don't want to miss Container or Wolf Eyes or Coldnose or Bruxia Maria or etc etc, see here: Clash Finder

But most importantly KURO are headlining the Barn on Saturday night, and Rocket's Chris Reeder is joining forces with Cosmic Dead and playing records for three hours in the bar after Wolf Eyes. 

Gonna be a bit messy we think?

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Listen to GOAT playlist for Whiskey Thief


Whiskey Thief asked GOAT to come up with an exclusive Spotify playlist to celebrate next weekends headline show at Brixton Academy

Find out more here: Whiskey Thief

And listen to the playlist here: Spotify

Tickets for next weeks show are still available from here: TicketMaster

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Listen to Housewives on Arrhythmia NTS mix


Have a listen to this great Arrhythmia mix on NTS where you will here Housewives mighty 'Excerpt 6' from their forthcoming LP 'FF061116'

Listen here: NTS

And preorder the quite amazing Ltd LP on Blue vinyl here: Bandcamp

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Photos of Flowers Must Die live at Supersonic


Check out some photos of Flowers Must Die's festival closing set at the great Supersonic.

Photos here: Knaifocus

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Poster for Housewives show in Manchester


Tickets: See

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19 Jul 2017

The Quietus interview Paddy from Gnod about forthcoming Faust Collaboration at Milhoes De Festa


It reads:

This year's Milhões de Festa boasts an ever-excellent line-up, with a number of acts across various different genres and disciplines set to come together under the Portuguese sun.

Among those set to play this year are Hieroglyphic Being, Sly & The Family Drone, Graveyard, The Gaslamp Killer, Mehmet Aslan and a whole host more, with many of those playing as part of pool parties making full use of the festival's sunny setting.


One of the year's undoubted highlights at the festival though is the first-time live collaboration of faUSt and GNOD, which will be presented at the festival as a one-off exclusive this weekend. Ahead of that, we caught up with Jean-Hervé Péron of faUSt and GNOD's Paddy Shine below to talk about what the show will involve and their experiences of each other's music…

Read the rest here: The Quietus

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17 Jul 2017

Flowers Must Die and Gnod in Vapor Trails Albums of the Year so far


Nice to see Flowers Must Die and Gnod turning up in Vapour Trails top 40 albums of the year

See the full rundown here: Vapour Trail

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Poster for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs show in Cork


Cosmonaut Music Cork Solid Choice Industries presents:

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
+ Horse & Order of the Mess

An Spailpin Fanach - Friday 25th of August
8pm & €10


More info here: Facebook

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15 Jul 2017

Goat reveal new shirt design for Brixton Academy and Womad


Goat have revealed this new shirt/bag design that can be exclusively bought at their headline slot at Brixton Academy and at Womad.

If there are any left we will sell them on the Rocket shop.
But as there are only 100 shirts (50 x white / 50 x yellow) and 50 bags we don't expect there will be many!

Tickets for Goats show at Brixton on 29 July with Moonlandingz and Jane Weaver can still be bought from here: See tickets

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Impatto Sonoro make Julie's Haircut their Italian album of the year so far


Italian Magazine Impatto Sonoro has made our Julie's Haircut their Italian album of the year so far!!

You can see the full rundown of their list here:  Impatto Sonoro 

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KURO and Rocket DJ at this years Supernormal


Our favourite weekend of the year has just got better with the announcement of KURO being added to the already amazing bill at this years (now sold out) Supernormal Festival!

Also, Chris from Rocket will be playing some records on Friday night in the bar tent.

More info about the line-up that  includes Wolf Eyes, Container, Bong vs Bridget Hayden, Coldnose, Ben Vince, Zoviet France, Bruxa Maria etc etc here: Supernormal

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Freq reviews Hey Colossus at Bristol Psych Fest


It reads:

...the next band upstairs was at the same time as the colossal Hey Colossus, so we stuck around to watch those guys stir up a sensual storm. A three guitars, bass and drums combo with a tall, moustachioed front man, all the guitars seemed to work in absolute harmony, their separate threads easy to pick out as each track would its inexorable way towards us.

The vocalist was a deep crooner, oddly magnetic, who strode and crashed around the stage, allowing the opening track to slowly unfurl as the guitars strained at their leashes, anxious to leap into the crowd and have at us. It was sweaty and propulsive and as track two started, it became quite exciting on stage, the drummer beating nine bells out of his kit.

Tone-wise, the front man reminded me of Carl Puttnam from Cud, but with more seat and bullets, leaning into the audience, yelling into any face that might be brave enough to come within range, the odd Nick Cave bellow of rage as all around guitars seared and bucked, urging one another over the edge. In fact they acted like a pack of animals, each crisp and fierce with their own purpose in mind to try and round up the audience and allow the singer to go in for the kill.

The band seem to take in metal but then turn their back on it and go down a more post-rock route, only to about turn again and trip a little psych fantastic. At times they reminded me of Mugstar, but with an enormous chap hip-thrusting in their midst, dancing like nobody is watching. Sabbath heavy with Queens Of The Stone Age hooks, the sound dense and the voice thrust forward, the guitars endlessly patient, jabbing and whirling around us. I was worn out at the end of the set, and due to the general overheating we decided to call it a day.We will be back next year, hopefully, and I would thoroughly recommend it to anybody who wants their minds expanded. A special shout should go to Stolen Body Records of Bristol. A good proportion of the bands had records out on the label and it was all lovely limited edition stuff — so go and buy that as well.

Read the rest here: Freq

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10 Jul 2017

Hey Colossus's The Guillotine in The Quietus Psych column



It says:

As a flat white supping elitist puritan ponce who looks down on other peoples' music tastes with all the charm of Theresa May trying to ingest a coneful of chips without revealing her mutant hemipteran proboscis, I sincerely believe that anybody who writes favourably at length about the new Paramore or Harry Styles albums should be forbidden from listening to anything apart from the amplified grinding of Gary Barlow's internal facial mechanisms which manoeuvre his right eyebrow up and down, up and down, up and down as a pale replacement for having an actual personality. You might as well be praising the functionality of the Crane BevMAX4 for Which? Carbonated Drinks Vendor Magazine. A great pop album is still a pop album. A great sequel to The Fast And The Furious is still a part of the deplorable Fast And Furious Franchise (even when it does include the culturally slumming presence of HRH Helen Mirren). A great colonoscopy still sees you lying on your side praying for dear life as a stranger surveys your iffy rectum with a fibreoptic bum camera. So down with poptimism, yeah?
 



As the bearer of such priggishness, I find it tricky to think of many bands that have grown more melodic and accessible without succumbing to a concurrent escalation in sheer naffness. Nirvana, perhaps? R.E.M... for a little while? Therapy?'s Troublegum contains banger after banger I'll give you that. Nick Cave. Wolf Eyes? Grumbling Fur! In Hey Colossus' case, it helps that they started from such a niche position in the first place..

Read the rest of the piece here: The Quietus

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9 Jul 2017

Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation play Ritual Union Festival


More names have been added to Ritual Union Festival in Oxford on 21 October where Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation are playing:

Tickets/info here: Ritual Union

Josefin Öhrn's up-and-coming shows are:

05 August / Skeleton Coast / Holylake / UK
10-12 August / Way Out West Festival / Gothenburg / Sweden
21 October / Ritual Union / Oxford / UK

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Rocket Albums in The Monitors 'Albums of the Year so far'


We have these albums in The Monitors 'Albums of the year so far':

Gnod – Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
“As its subtle title suggests, Gnod are angry. As angry as Nigel Farage at a British ale and tweed gilet convention where all of the ale and tweed gilets have been replaced, last minute, by continental lager and silk-knit cardigans. Noisy, abrasive and righteous, Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine is quite possibly Gnod’s most coherent and powerful record to date.”

Hey Colossus – The Guillotine
“In my last review I called for them to be anointed saints, which may seem a bit strong, but fuck it, get them sainted and elevate them to the pedestals they deserve. In these dark social times there’s not enough room to piss about with vagaries. The Guillotine is quite simply another astonishing album from a band that just continues to impress.”

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Feed the Rats
“Feed The Rats parties hard like a booze-crazed ham homunculus on a particularly rowdy stag do.” 

See the full list here: The Monitors

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Rocket Albums in Psych Insights 'Albums of the Year so far'


We have these two albums in Psych Insight's albums of the year:

Julie’s Haircut – Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin 
This sonic koan does just that with this album in that it retains the elements that give the who album its complexity…yet somehow come to terms with them in what sounds like a dialogue between the ‘twins’ in what is the most abstract of the numbers here…not so much an ending but a new beginning perhaps.

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Feed the rats

There’s no getting away from it…this is a massive slab of an album. It’s one that has been over three years in the making, given the band’s previous release, and for those waiting with baited breath since there Cosmic Dead split I doubt there will be very few who are disappointed.

See the full run down here: Psych Insight

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7 Jul 2017

Capra Informis Tunnels of Qliphoth 7" released today


Goat offshoot Capra Informis latest 7" release is out today.

"Sublimely unsettling" – The Quietus
"Wonderful stuff" – Soundblab

You can only buy from us here: Rocket Shop
Or from the band direct.

The tracks are also available via all streaming services.

We hope the band will hit stages sometime later the year.

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FREQ reviews Temple Ov BBV


It reads:

Sometime, a little gentle trepanation is what’s needed to broaden the psychic horizons; at others, it’s less optimal than a plain old hole in the head. Temple ov BBV is seemingly all about the downsides; it’s not a happy album by any means, but it might cheer those prone to schadenfreude up, if only on the basis that it’s probably harder to sound less all right than the meshing together here of Gnod with fellow aggronautical explorers Radar Men From The Moon.

headbutting their way to a higher state of (un)consciousnessAppropriately enough for a record inspired by self-tapping psychedelic explorer Bart Huges‘s book The Mechanics Of Brain Blood Volume, Temple ov BBV sounds like the ensemble are headbutting their way to a higher state of (un)consciousness through the power of sheer bloodyminded gtr-bs-drms assault that must have set the Eindhoven Psych Lab a-squirming...

Read the rest here: Freq

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5 Jul 2017

Psych Insight reviews Hey Colossus's 'The Guillotine'


It reads:

I only really came across Hey Colossus a few years ago, when the band released two albums in quick succession ‘In Black and Gold’ and ‘Radio Static High’; both on Rocket Recordings. I thought that both of these were terrific and was excited to hear more. Then when last year’s pre-Rocket retrospective, ‘Dedicated To Uri Klangers (2003-2013)’, came out I became fully aware, not only of how good this band were, but the changes in sound that were being wrought over time. A process of change that continues with this new album ‘The Guillotine’.

But let’s step back a bit for a minute, because I never really got round to writing about ‘Uri Klangers’, in fact it seems that this is my first Hey Colossus album review; and I’m pretty late with this given I first picked up the vinyl at a gig in early May. Why is that? I can’t think of any other band that I have liked so much in recent years, yet in written so little.  ‘Uri Klangers’ was a revelation to me… the noise, of my God, the noise… but noise that was somehow controlled and focussed. From the opening bars of ‘War Crows’ it’s four sides of sonic assault that, in another context, you’d be getting charged with GBH for...

Read the rest here: Psych Insight

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4 Jul 2017

The Monitors reviews Hey Colossus's The Guilotine


It reads:

I apologise that it has taken me a while to get this review written up. I know dear reader that you have been slavishly awaiting my thought’s on this latest release, but I have been delayed by many things. Chief amongst them the age-old problem of trying to write about an album that you genuinely love; i.e., the fear of disgustingly positive, gushing sycophancy.


Those that have visited this site regularly (yeah you) will know that I love Hey Colossus. Love them, and they have earned this love the hard way. Through endlessly changing and challenging my expectations of what they are as a band and by consistently releasing great records...

Read the full review here: Monitors

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3 Jul 2017

Rocket DJ at Fluffer Pit Party featuring Hey Colossus


As announced recently Hey Colossus are to play the next Fluffer Records Pit Party on 22 July...and now Rocket's Chris Reeder has been added as one of the DJs on the night...

Full line up of bands are:

2pm Doors open
- JAWS
- PINS
- HEY COLOSSUS
- SPECTRES
- PHOBOPHOBES
- ATLAS WYND
- SWEATY PALMS
- BO GRITZ

- HUMAN PET

Tickets are available here: Dice

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Four Rocket albums in Quietus's 'Albums of year so far' – plus Quietus needs your help!


We are flattered to say we have four bands in The Quietus's Albums of the Year so far:

#05 / Gnod – Just Say No To The Psycho Right – Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
#27 / Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Feed the Rats
#57 / Temple Ov BBV – Temple Ov BBV
#65 / Hey Colossus – The Guillotine

See the full rundown here: The Quietus

ALSO...The Quietus have made an appeal for donations, times are tough our there and for them to survive they need YOUR help!!

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Soundblab reviews Capra Informis's Tunnels of Qliphoth 7"


It says:

Emerging again from the shrouded forests of a Swedish hinterland comes the arterial collective, Capra Informis, a freeform off-shoot of Goat. Maintaining the ironic ruse of anonymity in a mainstream world forgoing all things private, Northern Sweden must be one of the only places on earth remote enough to ward off social media. Clearly there’s contrivance at play here. According yourself the status of true cult makes the droning astral-jamming seem more authentic, as if organically rooted in a mysterious subculture. Still, whether they’re dissecting forest kill amid the flares of dancing torches, or downing Dugges/Omnipollo Anagram Bourbon Barrel Aged Blueberry Cheesecake Stout in the rather more prosaic setting of a downtown hipster bar, the weird and wonderful music they make speaks for itself...

Read the rest here: Soundblab

And there are still copies left in the shop – we only have 150 so don't delay they are not being repressed! Rocket Bandcamp

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Anthroprophh to play Brighton show


Anthroprophh are making a rare trip outside of Bristol to play Sticky Mike's Frog Bar in Brighton on on 29 July.

Info for the show can be found here: Facebook

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2 Jul 2017

The Quietus put Temple Ov BBV in their best albums and Housewives in their best tracks of June


They say:

Temple Ov BBV – Temple Ov BBV
Gnod's Just Say No has already cast one of the longest musical shadows over 2017. A record much eulogised both here on tQ and elsewhere, and rightly so, somehow, it’s the most powerful of the group’s metamorphoses yet, by virtue of its compactness, the pinpoint targeting of its politicised assault.


Temple ov BBV, a collaboration between the group and Dutch psych-experimentalists Radar Men From The Moon, feels like a more twisted, parallel universe version of the same beast, the same sonic formula of terrifying, relentless pounding applied to a brilliantly bizarre tribute to Bart Huges, the scientist and psychedelic pioneer who drilled into his own skull in order to achieve enhanced mental power and a permanent high. Sonically, the record feels not dissimilar as an experience – a dentist's drill of nausea, noise and utter brilliance, straight to the brain.

See the full article here: The Quietus

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9/10 review of Hey Colossus by No Rip Cord


It reads:

Albini-level sonic tumult can make a compelling case by itself with or without a song’s lyrical intent.  And if said tumult offends?  Well, you were likely its target.  As the tilted and persistent rhythm of Back in the Room exhibits well Neu!’s belief in listener immersion through repetition, Hey Colossus, the noise-oriented rock unit responsible for the battery being addressed, also revel in the perverted evangelistic tone of The Jesus Lizard.  An attack on the senses?  Only if you’re the target.  The Guillotine, latest LP and third Hey Colossus release for Rocket Recordings, is an eight-song trove of volume, emotional density, and social critique, its commonalities with sounds cultivated by labels like Touch & Go and Amphetamine Reptile not so much evidentiary of retread as they are respectful and refreshing pulls from an era of dissonant rock plentitude.

Introduced by the red herring string play of Honest To God, a song I’ll admit had me believing momentarily that I’d be hearing an upbeat little ditty meant to set me mentally adrift in the ecstasy of a sun-drenched day, The Guillotine’s thoughtfully penned commentaries are delivered with an impressive weight and equally impactful commingling of guitar interaction.  The album’s notable heft garners most of the attention at first listen, but further dives into the material reveal the arrangements at work...

Read the rest here: No Rip Cord

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More reviews of Supersonic


They say:

Kuro Maga
Kuro Maga are all about the drone. Their main elements are a saxophone and violin with which they build up their sound and then unleash it. It is in essence a freeform jazz improv session which if you can’t do at Supersonic you can’t do anywhere. It’s a huge meshing merging of music that works really well. Single elements spring out at you as the sound moves only to disappear again into the meld. They then swing it around to a frenzied off the wall drum beat that with the rest of the sound turns it all frenzied and raw. 

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Pigs Pigs Pigs who are busy handing drinks out to the audience. They are so young.Supersonic_17062017_Fighting-Boredom-23 Dressed down, in two cases just pairs of shorts, but utterly focused. They start with just a riot of noise which moves into hard as nails punk, slow and epic sounding. The vocalist looks consumed with rage as he and the band take up every square inch of the stage. It’s so loud that my whole body is vibrating. I am sold.

It brings to mind the Rollins Band with it’s massive sounding punk, the post hardcore feel and concrete solid punches certainly reflect that but they have taken it a stage further, that band was all about the vocalist, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs are all about the band dynamic, the way that they move around each other and the sheer rage in the sound almost make you take a step back. The vocalist looks like he’s going to punch the whole crowd out.

They play another great big slab of hatred grinding out to break us and the crowd are responding in kind, there’s a slight stoner psych edge to it but mostly it’s good focused anger and there’s nothing wrong with that. When they speak they have broad Geordie accents and introduce their new drummer, I can’t believe that this was his introduction, talk about sink or swim, that they were spoiled playing on the other air conditioned stage and about just how hot it is in the room.
A great little band that should really get much bigger.

Read the rest: Fighting Boredom

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The madness continues with Pigs x7. The room feels like a sauna and our bodies are dripping with sweat. The British psychedelic stoner metal outfit brings punk attitude on stage. Matt Baty howls and dances half naked bringing brooding intensity. The further Pigs x7 go the more righteous they become, and the room — boiling and vibrating. Playing with an occult self-possession, Britons deliver a crowd-moving performance. Stoner has never felt so brutal!

Read the rest: Mutual Grimeness

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