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See: Dallas duo Olive Vox stick their boots on the foldback with the Seattle pound of ‘Sunflower’
HAILING by birth from the original OC, Orange County, Californ-i-a, Parker James and Caden Shea, the duo who together comprise the gloriously stoner outfit Olive Vox, moved way inland to Dallas as kids, uprooted into a different way of being. Kicking their heels during the hellish restrictions of 2020 they listened, practised, listened, jammed, listened …
See: Breton psych explorers Djinn drop visuals for ‘The Void’
HARD psych explorers Djiin, the four-piece from Rennes in Brittany who are about to drop their third album, Meandering Soul, from which they’ve unveiled the slowburn, progressive jam of “The Void” – you can watch it below. The Rennais stoners have laid down six tracks for Meandering Soul, their first long-playing outing since 2019’s The …
See: Werewolf Hair – ‘Snipe’: blasting outta VA with the righteously dirty lo-fi stoner garage blues
WELCOME aboard ship Andy Godwin, the player of both straight and pedal steel guitar, born in the collegiate city od Ann Arbor, Michigan, but these days based deeper into the hills of Virginia. His lycanthropic locks are ready and waiting to welcome you into his musical world, which door he’s opening today with the razor-sharp, …
See: Birds of Maya – ‘Please Come In’: Philadelphia’s returning fuzz-stoner prodigals return with a down ‘n’ dirty invitation
BIRDS OF MAYA have become one of those legendary lost power trios, so much more than the sum of their parts; superfuzzed, raw, ready to kick out the primal jamz, deliciously low-slung. I mean, really of course, that should read: had become, since they back with us, boy. Followers of the rock music at its …
TRACK: Madmess – ‘Ignition’: Portuguese psych trio sign and reissue debut EP
HASSLE RECORDS, home to such guitar assault squads as raging post-feminist outfit Petrol Girls and Belgian hardcore/mathrock band Brutus, has enticed a blurrily excellent act through its doors: the London-based Portuguese psych trio Madmess. The label begins its relationship with the trio – guitarist and vocalist Sam Paio, bassist Vasco Vasconcelos, and drummer-cum-vocalist Luis Moura …
Track: Dune Sea – Air
Norwegian psych/stoner rockers Dune Sea have just revealed a new song from their forthcoming second album “Moons of Uranus”, due out on November 13 on All Good Clean Records. A psych intro merges into upbeat rock with a surf feel to the guitar riff. The drumming through out is exceptional and makes the track for me. Chilled out synth …
SEE: the animated video for Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs’ ‘Hell’s Teeth’
NEWCASTLE’S excellent and nearly always abbreviated Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have just released a third single from their latest long-playing riff-fest Viscerals – and it comes accompanied with a brilliantly hard rock-referential papercut animation courtesy film-maker Lucy Dyson. The video for “Hell’s Teeth” features bats with metal guitars (is that a Charvel? …
ALBUM REVIEW: Leeches – ‘Easy’: big up the West Country stoner vibe
SPEAKING as a West Country lad myself, it comes as no surprise, with all the plaudits and freewheelin’ fertility surrounding the harder end of the Antipodean jam-psych scene – led forth into the multicoloured haze by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Pond – that the South West would, at some point, answer back …
EP Review: The Naked High – Tap Into The Evil
I could do a very simple review here. If you love hard rock with bluesy guitar, loud vocals and a hint of doom then this EP is brilliant, buy it. Emerging from the underground of Montreal comes The Naked High. Joining forces in the summer of 2015, connected by a love of similar music ranging from …
Track: Stereolith – Stuffy Air
‘Stuffy Air’ is the first release from the debut album ‘Escape Velocity’ by the stoner rock quartet ‘Stereolith’ set to be released on July 3rd, via Barhill / Cargo. Being on the punk rock end of the stoner spectrum these guys have something about them that’s not just heavily repetitive riffing. This is a great catchy …