The Quietus streams Hey Colossus new album 'In Black and Gold' in full – plus interview

The new Hey Colossus album hits the shops next Monday but the guys at the Quietus are streaming the album in full over on the site right now:

Listen here: The Quietus

You can also read an interview with the band.

Then buy a copy from here: Rocket Bandcamp

The go and see them live at one of these shows:

06th Feb - Bristol - The Exchange
07th Feb - London - Lexington (Album Launch party)
14th Feb - Brighton - Green Door Store
18th Feb - Birmingham - The Flapper
19th Feb - Newcastle - Head Of Steam
20th Feb - Edinburgh - Bannerman's Bar
21st Feb - Nottingham - Sona Studios
6th March - Manchester - Islington Mill

7th March – Shipley - Golden Cabinet

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New Negra Branca CD available

The amazing Negra Branca has a new album available called NB + TOUCHED and it is available to buy now.

Negra Branca is Marlene from Gnod's solo project and every release so far has been a Rocket fave, and this one is also an essential purchase!!

Listen then buy from here: Negra Branca

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Druss (Paddy from Gnod) appears on new WinterSelection 2015 compilation

The press release read:

WinterSelection2015
by SCANNER / DRU$S / GREG FOX / RAN SLAVIN

Limited Edition 2XLP 12" Vinyl
Heavyweight 2XLP 12" gatefold vinyl featuring artwork by Dr Me. Edition of 300. Screen printed plastic over bag. Release mastered for vinyl by Stephen Bishop (Opal Tapes / Basic House) 

Released: 9 Feb 2015
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RAIL CABLES - WINTER SELECTION is the first in a series of compilations featuring new music inspired by train travel. 

Each release will feature 4 musicians. This way each musician gets 1 side of a 12" record to fill with their musical interpretation of travelling by train. 
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DRU$S: Paddy Shine from Salford based kraut-pyche rockers Gnod has been recently unleashing his lo-fi filthy chugs under his Dru$s moniker via Gnod's own Tesla Tapes imprint. After recently adding saxophone to his ever expanding sound pallet, this 15 minute composition sounds like Paddy attempting to make sense of the lost souls travelling in the dark from city to city. Paddy has said of his track: 

"I tried to represent everything that could pass by on a train journey through the British countryside from pastoral settings, industrial landscapes, coastal waters and cityscapes whilst the whole time the mantra of the cables being the only constant." 

Preorder now from here: Rail Cables Bandcamp

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Gnod to play Otherworlds Festival

Gnod are joining Evil Blizzard, Sly and the Family Drone and many others at the OtherWorlds festival in Blackpool on 10-12 April.

All info and tickets can be found here: Otherworlds

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Louder than War reviews or Collisions 04 Split LP by Mamuthones & Evil Blizzard

Mamuthones | Evil Blizzard: Collisions 4

The latest instalment in the brilliant Collisions series on Rocket Recordings sees the upbeat Mamuthones enter into battle with the intense Evil Blizzard. The results couldn’t be further apart yet still so diversely brilliant.

Anything on Rocket Recordings has our interest piqued before the needle hits the record, and the fourth instalment in their Collisions series is no different. This time it sees Mamuthones & Evil Blizzard pitched against each other in a battle of musical wits.

Opening up with Italians Mamuthones, it sees them on the more traditional psychedelic path. The motorik beats coupled with the stabs of guitar on opening track I’ve Gotta Be, is reminiscent of Warm Digits. Second track Don’t Be Choosy sees them follow a slightly different path.

The high pitched guitars fill the record. The vocals are scarce yet they maintain their exciting psychedelic underpinning. They really lay down the gauntlet to Evil Blizzard, compounding this with two brilliant tracks epitomising the current psychedelic scene and you can’t help but groove to them.

The track Holy Ghost People is truly excellent and ends what has been a whistle stop journey through psychedelia. Mamuthones acquit themselves well in this battle of wits, they’re a multi-faceted beast as they channel Goat in Holy Ghost People as they move away from the more electronic elements exhibited in other tracks.

Read the rest of the review here: Louder than War

And here is another great review of the album by Dans le murduson

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Rocket Probes January Playlist

Shit and Shine – 54 Synth-brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral
(We are extremely excited to be putting out this album, could well be the best ever S&S album in our opinion!!)

Anthroprophh – Apophenia
(Taken from the God Unknown split with AMT...The 'Prophh return with another great kraut noise groove)
Anthroprophh

Jared Baron – For one Moment
(An amazing noised up cover of the great Lee Hazlewood track by our New York'an friend)
Jared Baron

Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe
(Great album of psych pop with a bit of a Stereolab late 70's Hawkwind, plus a Kate Bush and St Vincent kinda vibe...really good album)
Jane Weaver

Mammane Sani et son Orgue – Lamru
(Nice Afro synth repetitive groove)
Mammane Sani et son Orgue

Dean Blunt – Black Metal
(Paddy from Gnod and Mike from Teeth of the Sea have both been raving about Dean Blunt solo stuff to us for ages...and glad we finally checked it out!)
Dean Blunt

Flowers Must Die – Psykjunta​/​Pärsonligt Söund
(Very nice 7" by these Swedish psychsters, big fan of this as well as their last LP)
Flowers Must Die

Scott Walker / Sunn O))) – Soused
(Wasn't sure it was gonna work, but it does...another great Walker album!)
Scott Walker + Sunn O)))

Al Cisneros – Dismas
(OM's Al Cisneros take on African Head Charge)
Al Cisneros

Viet Cong – Viet Cong
(Motorik post punk with a big nod to This Heat)
Viet Cong

Lichens – Limbo
(Amazing circular drone electronica, thanks to Mike from Teeth of the Sea for this)
Lichens

Edzayawa – Gondzin
(Freaky percussive grooves)
Edzayawa

Lubes – s/t
(Teutonic jazz-noir dronescapes)
Lubes

Gabor Sazbo – Mizrab
(One of of our favourite jazz tracks, Hugo from The Heads introduced us to this)
Gabor Sazbo

The Bitters – The New Real Way
(Female fronted garage punk)

The Bitters

Various – Epitaph For A Legend  
(Rare versions of tracks from Texas' International Artists label)

Epitaph For A Legend

Edgar Broughton Band - It's Not You

(Clinging to visions of up….down I go!)

Edgar Broughton

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The Monitors and Narc features on Hey Colossus

The Monitors have published a piece on some of the most exciting 'noisier' bands around at the moment:

Hey Colossus, are just about to release their seventh album on Rocket Recordings, and have been an entity since 2003. Lead track ‘Sisters And Brothers’ sounds like Nick Cave on a particularly bad/awesome acid trip (depending on how you hear it). Two thirds Hey Colossus still live in London, and Thompson informs me that their physical locations have little influence on their music.

“When I read about artists being inspired by their surroundings I think they’re talking total balls… you’re inspired by the people you meet, the things you listen to, what you read. You’re not inspired by the 329 bus to Camden, in the same way we’re not inspired by the endless fields and flooding of Somerset.”

However, he does admit that two tunes reference their location, ‘The Drang’ and ‘There Ain’t No Love In The Mallet’. He precedes that with a description of his first drive to rehearsal after he’d left the Big Smoke:

“I moved here eight years ago, having lived in and around London all my life. About a week after living down here I drove across the levels to a rehearsal – in another band we were doing at the time – and was terrified of the space… it seemed endless… My dad still says “I like to exercise my eyes”, meaning “see further than the next massive building.” And having been surrounded by massive buildings all my life, that drive almost made me move straight back to London. Whatever the opposite of claustrophobia is, in that moment, I had it.”[It’s ‘agoraphobia’, in case you were wondering - Ed.] 

Hey Colossus singer and guitarist Tim Farthing muses on what got him into the noisier side of things. “I think I assumed a lot of the noisier bands I first liked – Killdozer, Big Black, Shorty, Buttholes – were rural bands. Wrongly, as it turned out. But they all had that crazed-backwater-moonshine thing going on that I definitely responded to as a country lad. But mostly it was (and still is) the racket.” When I ask if there’s any way the genre (as loose as my description is) has entered mainstream culture, he asks: “Are they still selling Burzum T-shirts in Sports Direct?”

Read the rest of the article here: Monitors

Also worth mentioning there is a double page feature on Hey Colossus in teh latest issue of Narc magazine, more info here: Narc

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Hey Colossus and Hirvikolari added to Raw Power Festival 2015 line-up

Hey Colossus who's new album 'In Black and Gold' is out on the 7th of Feb are playing the great Raw Power Festival.

Also added to the bill is Hirvikolari, a new project by Mike and Sam from Teeth of the Sea.

They join other great acts like:

Circle
Pharaoh Overlord
Esben and the Witch
Guapo
Cosmic Dead
Black Bombain
Sloath
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pig
Sex Swing
Spectres
+ more

Tickets from here: Baba Yaga

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Mamuthones performing Holy Ghost People at Collisions 04 album launch

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Nine Hertz reviews Collisions 04

Mamuthones / Evil Blizzard Collisions Vol.4

Rocket Recordings seems to be the best place to find psychedelic noodling of the finest kind these days.

Home to Goat, Teeth of the Sea and soon to be Hey Colossus, this is the fourth of their Collisions series of records, which has included Gnod and Mugstar in previous releases.

Much has been written about Evil Blizzard but not without reason. Four bassists and a singing drummer who all wear rubber masks? What's not to love? Mark E Smith is even a fan. But what do we know of Mamuthones? Not much I'd vouch, but this release reveals them to be a motorik, if slightly unhinged group who seem keen on splicing in improv among the repetition. Mad brass makes an impression on the excellent Don't Be Choosy among the hip, twisted vibes going on. It's like there's a party in my pants and the mariachi band have got the squits.

Unhinged vocals combine with a more post-punk party vibe on Fire On Fire to create a manic and tremendous jam too.

World music gets a look-in on Holy Ghost People too, crazy lead guitar flailing all over the place, the vocals invoking all kinds of demons…

Read the rest of the review here: Nine Hertz

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