Blood Sport – A life in Units / ø
(Debut album and an older (free) ep of slightly afro tinged psych pop and zoned out drones from this great Sheffield band)
Blood Sport
Theo Verney – TVEP
(Amazing cassette of fuzz filled psych pop with an early Sub Pop feel from this Brighton band...keep your eye son Mission Control for some exciting news regarding Theo Verney)
Theo Verney
Frisk Frugt – Palmevinsdrikkerens Vækkelses Blues / Hvordan To Halvmåner Bliver Til 4/4
(Two great tracks of experimental afro psyche from their latest album...think Master Musicians meets Tinariwen meets early Akron Family)
Frisk Frugt
Rodion G.A. – The Lost Tapes
(Essential analogue Electronica and heavy fuzz from 78 - 83 from this unknown Romanian producer )
Rodion
Evil Blizzard – Sacrifice
(The repetition of Fall and some mighty fuzz wah make this a killer track...downwload for free)
Evil Blizzard
Royal Baths – Litanies
(Spacemen 3 / Family Lips hypnopop)
Royal Baths
Skogen Brinner – Odjurets Hämnd
(70's sounding Swedish proto metal)
Skogen Brinner
Eih, A.L.K. & Brother Clark, Damin – Nevermind
(1973 private press psych)
Damin
Telefon Paisa – Arabic in the Morning
(The Fall sounding 1971 Swedish psych)
Telefon Pasia
GR & Full-Blown Expansion – s/t
(Bo Diddley meets Faust)
GR & Full Blown Expansion
Bipolaroid – Illusion Fields
(Syd Barrett meets Raw Power)
Bipolaroid
Connan Mockasin – Forever Dolphin Love
(Just love this, especially the video)
Icarus Line – Slave Vows
(Stooges sounding monster)
Icarus Line
JW Farquhar – The Formal Female
(1972 rock opera)
JW Farquhar
Brenda Ray – D'Ya Hear Me!: Naffi Years 1979-83
(Post punk dub)
Brenda Ray
CoH – II-II Vittorioso Calando
(Dirty futuristic electroinica)
CoH
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Teeth of the Sea join Factory Floor, Grumbling Fur, East India Youth and Perc for the online magazines 5th birthday celebrations at Corsica Studios on September 6th.
More info here: The Quietus
Then the night after the band will be doing an exclusive playback of their next album 'MASTER' . Info about this can be found here: Master Playback
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The latest issue of Rock a Rolla (Russian Circles on the cover) has an exclusive interview with Hills as well as a review of their album Master Sleeps that is being released on Rocket on September 7th.
Also in the issue is a live review of Goats mind blowing show at Camden Electric Ballroom at the end of June.
You can get a copy of the issue here: Rock a Rolla
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The mighty Roadburn festival have announced that they not only have Loop playing but also The Heads will be playing two shows.
As the great Paul Allen is focusing on Anthroprophh the band have invited some guests to join them and try and fill the void. The first of these guests will be the legend that is Monster Magnet's John McBain on guitar and the second is a collaboration with US jam band Carlton Melton.
More info can be found here: Roadburn
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XL LA Republica have posted up a massive feature on Rocket and our bands:
È l’etichetta di riferimento per gli appassionati di psichedelia scoppiata e vibrazioni heavy-kosmische. Dai Goat ai Teeth Of the Sea passando per i Gnod, benvenuti in casa Rocket Recordings.
SULLO STESSO ARGOMENTOPerché i Wolf Eyes sono tra i gruppi fondamentali degli anni 2000Library Music italiana: un universo paralleloI Master Musicians Of Bukkake nel Far West Di gruppi chiamati Goat, scopro da discogs.com, ne esistono almeno una ventina. Quelli di cui voglio parlarvi però vengono dalla Svezia e sono autori di uno degli album più chiacchierati del 2012, il fortunatissimo World Music. Ora, il nuovo singolo del gruppo svedese è uscito a inizio estate e li ha confermati tra le migliori realtà neopsichedeliche in circolazione. Ma soprattutto, ha imposto una volta per tutte il marchio Rocket Recordings come nome di riferimento per gli appassionati di suoni sfatti, dilatati e perennemente in bilico tra aspirazioni cosmiche e viscerali tirate tribal-primitiviste.
La Rocket Recordings è un’etichetta di Bristol in attività da circa un quindicennio che ci ha già regalato lavori di grossi calibri del suono neolisergico, dagli Oneida ai White Hills passando per i nostri beneamati Ufomammut. Però è solo col succitato esordio dei Goat che la label gestita dalla coppia Chris Reeder/John O’Carroll ha – diciamo così – fatto il botto. Grazie al “caso” World Music, le sue ultime uscite hanno abbondantemente sconfinato i canali underground per imporsi all’attenzione di un pubblico trasversale e non necessariamente composto da nostalgici hippie capelluti a caccia di francobolli intinti nell’LSD. È quindi ora di passare in rassegna i nomi che nell’ultimo anno hanno reso l’etichetta inglese uno dei marchi più ammirati nei soliti circuiti off off: dopotutto è estate e quindi tempo di viaggi, no?
Read the full article here: XL Repulica
Image is of a piece by Laura Ajayi
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Taken from the website:
GOAT Live at Southgate House Revival + Run To Your Mama Remixes (Vol. 1)
MARTY SPITFLY
My brain was melted last Friday as I FINALLY made my way across the river into Newport, KY to the Southgate House Revival to take in Swedish psych rock band Goat. I really dug their debut album World Music when it dropped late last year, but to be honest, I hadn't really revisited the cd too much since my initial excitement. Just got lost in the mix around here. When the Cincy Psych Fest organizers announced that they were bringing Goat to town, I was sure to make it a point to catch the band live as I imagined their live incarnation would be memorable. What a treat! We got a there just as Goat was beginning their opening song (missed opening band Holy Wave) and I was immediately struck by the bands attire. They were all decked out in masks and gypsy/hippie get-ups that totally set the expectation for what was to come. The band was fronted by two mysterious female singers that wailed in unison and danced in tandem channeling spirits and projecting a powerful expression. The bongo player was super on point and added a dense percussive layer that provided an upbeat backdrop up for the heavy fuzz of the guitars.
I left the show very impressed and hope Goat catches on as they continue to spread their gospel. If they come close to your town, do yourself a favor and make an effort to get out and go!...
Read the full article which features loads of photo's here: Mrs Sidebottom
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From the Incubate site:
We asked London based electronic postrock band Teeth Of The Sea which 5 Incubate acts they definitely can’t miss out on. They’ve chosen the following:
PETE SWANSON
We were all fans of Pete Swanson’s work in Yellow Swans, but when he put out ‘Man With Potential’ recently the combination of excoriating modular synthesis and four-on-the-floor bears just just ripped our heads off. It ended up being a big influence on our own new album MASTER. There’s one track in particular, ‘Remote View’, which I still just play over and over; it’s like standing on Mars next to a power station the size of Australia with a head full of acid. We can’t wait to get down to Pete’s unearthly jams.
IMMORTAL
Unfortunately I don’t think we’re going to arrive in Tilburg in time to see much of the Friday, but if I were there I’d be sure to see this bunch of terror titans. I’ve always loved the epic bravura that Immortal brought to black metal; it’s no kind of insult to say they’re the necro KISS. The whole Friday line-up’s very strong, and Mayhem are a very hard band to beat for fathomless perversity and sheer spite, but we’re all safe in the knowledge that Immortal will be the chilliest, most windswept party in town.
TIM HECKER
On the other hand, although he’s equally chilly, it’s probably fair to say that Tim Hecker doesn’t offer the same kind of hell-for-leather showbiz thrills. Yet when you have tunes at your disposal like those on Ravedeath 1972, that becomes a moot point. The ghostly ambience and abrasive textures of that record are completely transporting, and it’s testimony to the power of Incubate that the punters can look forward to both the most in-your-face aggro and this kind of celestial bliss.
LAS KELLIES
Just saw this Argentinian three-piece at Supernormal Festival in Oxfordshire, and they blew us away; they veer between being the best minimal party soundtrack in an ESG style and the most invigorating garage-punk band on the block, and sometimes both at the same time. Their album ‘Kellies’ was produced by reggae godhead Dennis Bovell, and is stupid fresh and well worth a listen.
PRURIENT
At least one member of our band is dangerously obsessed with Dominic Fernow, and we’ll all be very glad to get another chance to get to see him flailing around onstage like some nightmarish hybrid of an overexcited goth teenager in his bedroom and Jaime Gumb from Silence Of The Lambs. Oh yeah, and making some of the most visionary electronic racket currently in circulation, of course.
See the piece in full here: Incubate
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ATP have just announced they are returning to London after their sold out show at Camden's Electric Ballroom with for a show at Koko on December 2nd.
The have had an incredible summer playing great performances at Europe's finest festivals like Primavera, Glastonbury, Roskilde, OYA, Way out West, Lowlands, Flow etc.
The band are now going to be locking themselves away in their studio in Korpilombolo for the Autumn writing the follow up to World Music, so we can maybe expect a first airing of some of the fruits at the the Koko show.
Tickets go on sale Thursday morning at 9am from here: Tickets
And the event page is here: ATP
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The people behind the Lowlands Festival has voted Goat's performance in the top 5 of the weekend. Even higher than much hyped bands like Factory Floor, Tame Impala and Nine Inch Nails. Even higher than Slayer!!!
:)
See what they say here: Lowlands
Photo by Tim Van Veen
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Teeth of the Sea – Master Playback
King Charles Pub – Kings X
September 7th
8pm
The following info about the night was taken from The Quietus:
Teeth Of The Sea are releasing their third album, Master (that's the artwork above), on October 7 via Rocket Recordings. However, before that date, Quietus editor John Doran, along with the band, is giving you the chance to hear the album in full a WHOLE MONTH before its release at the inaugural event of his new night, Cosmic & E-Beat. It'll be taking place on the first Saturday of every month at the King Charles I pub in King's Cross, London, and you can expect both John and TotS members to be unleashing their formidable disc jockeying skills at each and every event. This first occasion also handily comes the day after the Quietus' fifth birthday party at Corsica Studios (roll up, roll up, get your tickets here folks), so what better way to soothe your bruised minds than with the sonic balm of TotS' synth prowess?
Head to the Facebook event for full details - though you need remember but two things - the date, September 7; the time, 8 p.m. - and the Cosmic & E-Beat group to join. In the meantime, here's John introducing you to proceedings:
"'It’s been a long time I shouldn't’ve left you, without a strong beat to step to.'
"In 2001 Brian Eno said: 'There were three great beats in the 70s: Fela Kuti's Afrobeat; James Brown's funk; and Klaus Dinger's Neu!-beat.' (Mr Eno is a genius and his mind is always on higher things, so we can overlook the fact he probably meant the beats laid down by Tony Allen, Clyde Stubblefield and Klaus Dinger.)
"One can only agree that Funk, Afrobeat and Krautrock form an unbeatably badass trinity. But once you throw in some cosmic synth music and some space rock, you’ve got the basis of a pretty far out night of sounds.
"Cosmic & E-Beat will be brought to you on the first Saturday of every month at the King Charles I, King's Cross by your host John Doran of The Quietus, VICE and NOISEY, ably assisted by interplanetary synth rock fiends, Teeth Of The Sea.
Find out more here: Teeth of the Sea playback
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