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1 Apr 2016
Drowned in Sound give Gnod's Mirror a 9/10 review
It reads:
Gnod – Mirror
9/10
There’s something odd about the way in which music like the throbbing primordial noisy rock Gnod employ on Mirror gets labelled variably as ‘punishing’ or ‘brutal’. At the worst of times it’s a glorious and triumphant sound; a shot of dense energy I find it hard to describe as anything less than utterly magnificent. In such an environment as modern Britain, anything other than shouting gets you bloody nowhere, which is probably what’s driven Gnod to the brute-headed tunnel vision of Mirror. In making the album, a trimmed down Gnod quartet did away with the spiralling rhythms of 2015’s long-simmering Infinity Machines triple album, and focused on blunter sonic instruments: volume, ferociousness, anger… fuck it, sheer hatred. Not counting a remix, the album’s a densely distilled three tracks in 35 minutes, and it’s both Gnod’s most unpredictable and clearest statement to date.
The group allotted a mere three days apiece for recording and mixing the record, and the material they got together was mostly written while on tour. To boot they were touring in the wake of the UK’s 2015 general election, which many of us have done our best to erase from our memories...
Read the rest here: DIS
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Eindhoven Psych Lab reveals each day line-ups
The great Eindhoven Psych Lab have announced their day line-ups.
Gonna be a good un'!
More info and tickets here: Eindhoven Psych Lab
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Gnod's Mirror out today
We are excited to announce that Gnod's new album MIRROR is released today!
Watch the video for the lead track above.
The album is another amazing chapter in the world of Gnod and is already picking up 9/10 and 4/5 reviews across the board.
You can buy it in all good record shops and via the Rocket shop here: Bandcamp.
The band are heading out on tour to promote the album throughout April, dates below:
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31 Mar 2016
Rocket probes – March playlist
The Myrrors – Arena Negra
(Probably the closest thing you are gonna hear to International Harvester...amazing stuff!)
The Myrrors
The Oscillation – Monographic
(New album of repetitive psych rock on Hands in the Dark)
The Oscillation
Howes – 35 Degrees
(Real nice modular grooves)
Howes
Holy Wave – Evil hits / Relax
(Really great Birdsy, Beatlesy, Barretty, Velvetsy fuzz pop...perfect Spring listening)
Holy Wave
Lard Free – III
(Nice to get this 70's french psych synth on vinyl and hear how it should sound)
Lard Free
Lucidvox – My your land
(Really nice debut album by this Russian band...like Goat meets Loop meet Siouxsie Sioux)
Lucidvox
Black Tempest – Enfolding light
(Black Tempest returns with more outer planetary synth excursions)
Black Tempest
Can – Star of bethlehem
(Amazing different version of the great Can track from a digital comp called 'Rare'...killer Jaki hip-hop beat)
(can't find a link online for it)
Oneida – Enemy hogs
(Where it all began...been giving this great debut album lots of spins this month - about time this got a vinyl reissue!!)
Oneida
The Revolutionary Army of Infant Jesus – Mirror
(Dave from Flying Saucer Attack turned us onto this back in the Revolver days...a unique album of repetition, psych-noise, ethereal pop, industrial, avant exploration etc)
The Revolutionary Army of Infant Jesus
Ornette Coleman – Rock the clock
(Some nice fuzz wah free jazz from the album Science Fiction)
Ornette Coleman
Far East Family Band – Parallel World
(Great kosmiche psych excursions from Japan)
Far East Family Band
The Beatles – Blue Jay Ray (800% slower)
(One of our fave ever Beatles songs turned into an ethereal drone)
The Beatles
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The Quietus review of the week is 'Gnod – Mirror'
It reads:
The Lead Review:
Mick Middles On Gnod's Mirror
Where to go? What to do next? And why? Mick Middles assesses the latest output from the Salford group, out tomorrow on Rocket Recordings
Formed in 2007, as more of an arts collective than a band, Gnod managed to add true innovative substance to the unlikely swell of pysche in the North West. As their membership fluctuated, so the course and vision of their musicality continued to sway. Today they seem settled as a four piece, albeit one whose musical stance has changed drastically even since their gargantuan 2015 outing, Infinity Machines. This 109 minute triple album was seen by some as the Yessongs of contemporary psyche, although that lazy genre seems incapable of encapsulation a band with such expansive musical movement. It was an album you could easily live within and for several months before the inevitable would occur, seeing you running, screaming from the enclosure. It was certainly captivating and, in places, blindingly brilliant. That sense of being enclosed in sound – and vision – offered both a sense of release and incarceration...
Read the rest of the gushing review here: The Quietus
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The Lead Review:
Mick Middles On Gnod's Mirror
Where to go? What to do next? And why? Mick Middles assesses the latest output from the Salford group, out tomorrow on Rocket Recordings
Formed in 2007, as more of an arts collective than a band, Gnod managed to add true innovative substance to the unlikely swell of pysche in the North West. As their membership fluctuated, so the course and vision of their musicality continued to sway. Today they seem settled as a four piece, albeit one whose musical stance has changed drastically even since their gargantuan 2015 outing, Infinity Machines. This 109 minute triple album was seen by some as the Yessongs of contemporary psyche, although that lazy genre seems incapable of encapsulation a band with such expansive musical movement. It was an album you could easily live within and for several months before the inevitable would occur, seeing you running, screaming from the enclosure. It was certainly captivating and, in places, blindingly brilliant. That sense of being enclosed in sound – and vision – offered both a sense of release and incarceration...
Read the rest of the gushing review here: The Quietus
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Cacophonous Sarcophagus presents: GNOD + Housewives
As part of their up-and-coming MIRROR tour, Gnod are playing a show in their second home Bristol on 29th April, and supporting are the amazing Housewives.
Gnod
+
Housewives
Warren Schoenbright
Old Malt House / Bristol
29 April
More info/tickets here: Cacophonous Sarcophagus
Gnod's new album MIRROR out tomorrow, get your copy here: Rocket Bandcamp
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30 Mar 2016
Teeth of the Sea – Portugal shows
Teeth of the Sea are heading to sunny Portugal for a couple of shows in April:
Friday 8th April
Musicbox / Lisbon
Info and tickets
Saturday 9th April
Understage / Teatro Municipal De Porto
Info and tickets
And don't forget the band are also playing London's Desertfest on 29th April at the Black Heart, more info and tickets here: Desertfest
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GNOD - Mirror Video
Watch the new GNOD video 'Mirror' taken from their new album of the same name.
The video features the work of the bands regular visual collaborator 'KHOM' (www.khom1.tumblr.com)
The album 'Mirror' will be released on April 1st and will be available on LP, CD & Download via the usual avenues.
You can order physical copies of Gnod's new album Mirror here: Rocket Bandcamp
And digitally from iTunes here: iTunes
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GNOD - Mirror - Loud and Quiet, Album of the Week
'Predicting GNOD’s trajectory has become as impossible as it has futile. The Salford-based band have torn their way through brain-haemorrhaging psychedelia, monster drones, minimal techno, avant-garde noise and just about everything in between that’s even loosely connected to those sounds. A ceaseless impulse to move forward charges their music into new territory time and time again and it has made them one of the most exhilarating alternative groups in the UK. On ‘Mirror’ they’ve landed in early ’80s Swans territory, as growling, clattering scrap metal guitars clang and batter the ears. The guttural vocals manage to sound as rasping and fierce as any of the screeching instruments.
It’s a cold, brutal, merciless record that never relents in its attack but it’s an utterly joyous one too, if early Godflesh records being put through a car compactor sounds up your street. It’s only three tracks long but as the end outcome feels like you’ve witnessed a crime or suffered an ordeal of some sort, this is an intensely corporeal record and one you won’t forget listening to in a hurry.'
Read & Listen: here
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