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2 Jun 2020
1 Jun 2020
Under The Radar reviews Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Viscerals
They say:
If ever an album title summed up its contents—not to mention the intentions of its creators—look no further than here. Viscerals documents the next stage in Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ unrelenting story. The album is a statement of intent that continues their sense bludgeoning amalgamation of metal, punk, and experimental noise at its most brutal.
Since their debut Feed the Rats appeared three years ago, the band have steadily amassed a loyal following that’s seen them welcomed with open arms by the metal and psych rock communities. Which probably explains why parts of this record owe as much to riff behemoths Sleep and The Melvins while the rest could easily be mistaken for Hawkwind, Sonic Youth, or Edgar Broughton Band...
Read the rest here: Under The Radar
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Guitar.com interviews Adam Sykes from Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
They say:
We chat to the Geordie metalheads about boutique pedals, Japanese psych-rock tones, and how they’ve redefined their genre for album three.
Demonstrating the band’s newfound fervour, Viscerals, the third LP from Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, provides even more porcine intensity than their 2018 breakthrough King Of Cowards.
Opener Reducer, for instance, is vicious in its presentation, powered by roaring krautrock-style drums and Sabbathian guitars. The northern porkers may not be the metal band that many expected to be driving the genre forward in 2020 but they are absolutely the band we need right now. Below, guitarist Adam Ian Sykes dissects his five favourite Viscerals guitar moments...
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30 May 2020
Rocket Probes – May 2020 (Lockdown) Playlist
Autotelia – First Flight
(Incredible machine driven kosmich bliss...debut album up for presale now)
Magaletti & Ribeiro – Viaggio inverso
(First track to be revealed from this GNOD/Tomaga collab)
Miles Davis – The Hen
(At his fuzziest best)
Modulator II – Slivered Hearse
(Great bit of French garage psych on Stolen Body)
Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers – Odjay - Nati Kongo
(Crazy rhythms)
Tambourinen – Wooden Flower
(Myrrors man)
Eddie Jefferson – Psychedelic sally
(P-soul)
Plaza Hotel – Bewegliche Ziele
(Jaki from Can laying his groove over new wave synth in '81)
Nine Inch Nails – Ghost IV / Ghost V
(A couple of really interesting albums from Rezner and co)
Gal Costa – Gal Costa
(Thanks to Jimmy for awakening us to this one)
Motörhead - Nightmare/The Dreamtime
(Motör Magnet)
The Troggs - I just Sing
(One for The Fall fans)
Graham Jefferies - Is the timing wrong
(Lofi VU folk sounds from ‘88 New Zealand...one from the Revolver Records years)
Gila - S/T
(Classic krautprog)
Ben Salisbury, The Insects & Geoff Barrow – DEVS Soundtrack
(Great sounds)
Broadcast – Peel session 2003
(What a band!)
The (Hypothetical) Prophets - Wallenberg (French Version)
(Mutant sounds from Bernard Szajner)
Lushworker – Cruise / Uplift / Hb1c MkII
(Droning fuzz)
Sven Wunder – Eastern Flowers
(Middle Eastern grooves)
Group A – Inhuman Ecstacy
(When in berlin)
Von Himmel - Space Communion
(Forgot about this kosmiche classic from 2009)
The Transcendence Orchestra – The golden jaws of the celestial vice
(Immerse)
Memnon SA – World Serpent
(Proggy psych explorations)
Ahiyana – Idassane Wallet Mohamed
(West African repetitions)
Purple Sun – Dooms Day
(Fuzz rock)
France – OTT
(One of our fave bands around)
Rose City Band – Rivers of Mind
(Repetitive country sounds)
Yozeph of Kirezi - Theme
(One for the Heads fans)
Tony Allen With Africa 70 - No Accommodation For Lagos
(One of the greatest...RIP)
Kraftwerk – Live on Radio Bremen
(The band for where it all began for many...RIP Florien)
Pretty Things – S.F Sorrow
(What a frontman...RIP)
Catherine Christer Hennix - Blues Alif Lam Mim In The Modes Of Rag Infinity/ Rag Cosmosis
(Stunning...cheers Jimmy!)
Listen to our 'updated monthly' Rocket Probes Spotify playlist here:
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29 May 2020
Sex Swing and Kooba Tercu in The Quietus's Albums of the Month
They say:
Sex Swing – Type II
Many listeners will credit Type II with the maturation and increased accessibility of Sex Swing's sound. That wouldn't be an inaccurate critique. But it doesn't address the fact that Sex Swing haven’t actually diminished in ferocity since their last album. What they've been able to do though is tighten their dirges into soaring anthemic hymns that aspire to the transcendental. This undercurrent of bliss functions as a kind of anti-cathexis that binds the band's more brutally primitive impulses. While the band still make use of punishing rhythmic repetition, the album seems less concerned with malfeasance than it does with connecting the human spirit with some ethereal element that binds us together.
Kooba Tercu – Proto Tekno
The first thing among many that slaps you in the face when you play Kooba Tercu's new record is its feral, white hot energy. Opening track 'Benzoberry' is a scorcher, a cyclone of guitars and screamed vocals, scuzzed up to the max, whirling around an evil black hole of a bassline. Then, on 'Cemento Mori', a bone-shaking groove emerges from the chaos, twisting and lurching and mutating like some kind of monstrous ooze as it goes, but never deviating from its terrifying march. That deep, dark power at the core of Proto Tekno is always there, pulsing forwards through the record's swampy grooves and hypnotic repetitious percussion, but the exact way in which the band yields it keeps morphing and twisting.
Sometimes they're positively minimal, succumbing to a bracing battle rhythm, and at others they're overwhelmingly noisy, particularly when feral synths and wild, indefinable noises join the fray, frontman Johnny Tercu howling as if he's being physically thrown around by the maelstrom. The overall effect is a record that feels like a shapeless, constantly-shifting storm that surrounds a mysterious, dark central power – like the millennia-old hurricanes of a gas giant, whirling around its core.
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GNOD's classic 'Trepanation' shirt available to order for 'one-day-only' on 5th June
There has been a lot of requests recently for GNOD to reprint their classic 'Trepanation for the National Health' T-shirt, so the band thought, why not?
So we have decided to do a 'made-to-order' run to coincide with the up-and-coming- Bandcamp 'no-fee' day on Friday 5 June.
So that means the shirt will be available to purchase for 'one-day-only' – what shirts are ordered are what is going to be made.
You can order for 24 hours from 9am on 5 June here: GNOD
We will also have the classic 'Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine' shirts available on Red and Black shirts that can also be bought from that link.
And just to warn you, Rocket has a couple of other very special 'ltd goodies' we are announcing next week that will also be up for presale on the 5th June!
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28 May 2020
Loud and Quiet put Sex Swing's Type II in their 'Albums of the Month'
Artist: Sex Swing
Title: Type II
Label: Rocket Recordings
What is it? A supergroup comprising luminaries of the UK underground – Mugstar, Bonnacons of Doom, Dethscalator, Earth, and countless more – with their sophomore of amplified industrial catharsis.
L&Q says: “Order and chaos rule Type II, and Sex Swing would’ve made a far less engaging LP had they allowed one to supersede the other.”
See the full list here: Loud and Quiet
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Beats Per Minute reviews Kooba Tercu
They say:
The members of Kooba Tercu are now located in Greece, Crete and London, and on new album Proto Tekno you can almost hear the joyful abandon at play in their coming together. Communion is a key element in this album; that point at which the music transcends the role of being the vessel of the message to evolve into the message. Proto Tekno skips from one aural landscape to the next, paying no great heed to the song writing rules of generic parameters that record company execs seem to cling onto so blindly for ease of commodifying a product. The listener is served up an array of styles on this, their third album, that shifts, contorts and shakes.
Album opener “Benzoberry” kicks into life with a fuzzy adrenalin-fuelled guitar line and we are in garage rock territory. Drums hurtle and crash, the bass stays stoically repetitive, while the guitar lines skim over the track’s surface in exuberant manner as they careen this way and that, a law unto themselves. Vocal lines are buried deep in the mix, a repeated refrain toward the end serving as an incantation to who-knows-what – a joyful and wholly life affirming banger of a track...
Read the rest here: Beats Per Minute
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27 May 2020
RTMB Music reviews Kooba Tercu's Proto Tekno
They say:
Kooba Tercu delivers an exploration of sounds that seek to capture his concern for modern life and a dystopian future not too distant as a result of the rapid urbanization of his native country, hence the cover art where a well-built structure remains abandoned to the degree to unite with nature that perhaps in its time was destroyed for its construction.
This album was recorded at the same time as its previous album and like that it was composed based on improvisations which explains the way in which each song flows because even those with a conventional structure feel like passages that are unfolding little by little. Little, being a wild force in the distorted sound that characterizes the entire album and it is impressive how consistent it is for the different ways they present it, for example, "Kamehameha" is a song that seems to have Sludge Metal influence with some vocals that remind me of The Resindents, "Boiler" can be more closely associated with Ambient and IDM, "Qasan" sounds like a Krautrock ritual with Noise and yet they keep these genres never far enough apart for the album to lose its pace and come to a satisfactory conclusion...
Read the rest here: RTMB Music
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