New Releases

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/155120-the-bevis-frond-example-22- wrote:Example 22 is the aptly named 22nd album from Nick Saloman, AKA The Bevis Frond. Saloman is equally at home stamping on his Wah-Wah pedal to create expansive psychedelia as he is gently picking a tune on his acoustic guitar. Example 22 is the follow-up to 2013’s epic White Numbers and Saloman utilises the same backing band.

https://slackeyeslim.bandcamp.com/album/giving-my-bones-to-the-western-lands wrote:Giving My Bones to the Western Lands” is the third album by southwest Colorado based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Joe Frankland and released under the moniker of Slackeye Slim. In 2013 Frankland disappeared into isolation on a working ranch and spent a year wandering the surrounding deserts and canyons while quietly working on a follow-up to Slackeye Slim’s critically acclaimed 2011 album “El Santo Grial: La Pistola Piadosa.”

Frankland’s exodus into the profound loneliness of the American West proved to be exactly what was needed to overcome the barrier that so many musicians encounter after releasing an album which was given labels like “masterpiece” and “essential listening.” While Frankland’s trademark gritty baritone vocals and a cinematic Western quality still provide the backbone of Slackeye Slim’s sound, “Giving My Bones to the Western Lands” is a step in a new, tremendously inspired direction.

Dealing with themes of loneliness, bad blood, and fierce individualism which are tastefully combined with the same unique brand of crazed gunfighter irreverence found on Slackeye Slim’s previous albums, the eleven songs of “Giving My Bones to the Western Lands” demonstrate a huge step in Frankland’s ability as a songwriter. Undoubtedly Slackeye Slim’s most mature work, the album was recorded in the dilapidated buildings of an abandoned homestead and in various indoor and outdoor locations around the ranch where Frankland lived.
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released January 20, 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/11684318/Meg-Baird-Dont-Weigh-Down-the-Light-review-soft-beauty.html wrote:Inspired by her move to San Francisco, Baird's third album carries a Californian sound which recalls The Byrds and Joni Mitchell

https://the-mongrelettes.bandcamp.com/album/the-mongrelettes wrote:The Mongrelettes is a new’n’cool garage band hailing from Athens, Greece & powered by a line up with four gals & one guy! An almost all-female combo, featuring Marika Yé Yé: Lead vocals, percussion, theremin, harmonica, acoustic guitar, Mariloo: Fuzz guitar, backing vocals, Calamity: Bass, Silver Bruise: Drums, percussion, backing vocals & Titto Mongrel: Farfisa Organ! Influenced by various 60’s garage & psych pioneers bridging all the hot stuff from the past to the now sound of!!! Their first fabulous 7” EP came out in 2011 via Fuzz Overdose Records, got lotsa positive feedback and is outta print!!! So far, they gigged with some cool bands like The Magnificent Brotherhood, The Stems, The Fuzztones, Movie Star Junkies, The Fall, shared the stage with The Launderettes, Death By Unga Bunga, The Mobsmen etc., as well with some Greek garage & rock’n’roll combos!

https://monophonics.bandcamp.com/album/sound-of-sinning wrote:Raised amid the rich musical culture and history of the San Francisco Bay Area, Monophonics proudly carry the torch through the generations into today’s musical landscape. Holding on to tradition, but by no means purists of any kind, they play their own brand of music known as “Psychedelic Soul.

https://soundcloud.com/rocket-recordings/02-womb-of-the-wild wrote:
Literally translated from the Latin, the name Capra Informis means ‘Shapeless Goat’, a curious turn of phrase given that this project is the work of the nameless djembi player from the Swedish psychedelic warriors monikered with the latter of the two words. Nonetheless, somewhere amidst the hinterland between shape and void, dream and waking, it would appear that some form of transformative process has indeed occurred over the course of the nineteen minutes of their debut EP on Rocket Recordings. Casting a heady and intoxicating spell of nocturnal atmosphere and drone-based abandon, these four tracks set out a shamanic mission both fresh and feral.

Whilst Capra Informis may share some stylistic touches with their main protagonist’s regular band, they also boast a markedly darker approach - the mesmerising percussive onslaught may be present and correct, yet the psychic landscapes and deviant monomania of these four raven-hued trips renders them imposing in their Dionysian debauchery. Moreover, while the one-chord guitar-driven inferno of ‘Womb Of The Wild’ finds kindred spirits in the nihilistic, spiritually-driven like of Dead Skeletons and early Skullflower, ‘Cold and’ sees glacial synths and garage-birthed organ take the lead on a cinematic twilight voyage not unlike a Kenneth Anger filmscore’s depiction of an ayahuasca ritual.

Throughout, however, the potency and persuasive powers of Capra Informis’ approach cannot be called into question - within these whispered incantations and mantric arrangements lurk dark forces and strange undertakings untold. Yet it remains a rare pleasure to bear witness to this rich collision of fiery intent and fearless third-eye vision. Far from the shadow of their ringleader’s past work. Capra Informis are staking their claim as chimerical warriors with manifold powers, and this four-track sermon marks only the first of their forays into the unknown that promise rich rewards for the far-gone and the intrepid alike.

https://thesonicdawn.bandcamp.com/album/perception wrote:

A psychedelic rock trio with twangy guitars, dreamy vocals, mysterious sitar and groovy rhythms. Like a mix between the 60s' West Coast sound and a frosty Scandinavian landscape.

Debut album out on Nasoni Records (2015).

https://twinguns.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-picture-show-2015 wrote:Garage Noir from Brooklyn. A reverberating sonic tornado that sucks up and spits out elements of '60s punk, biker instrumentals, surf-rock and psychedelia with a sinister, no-nonsense delivery. Twin Guns drench their audiences with powerful swells of cinematic sound.