You guys, The Woolly Bushmen are so cool. I mean it, these 3 guys just have it going on. They’re fun, and talented, and I just want them to play every house party I host. They’re the most fun thing to come outta Florida since Disneyworld. Last years sophomore release from the band, Arduino, was one of my favorite and most played releases of the year, and with In Shambles (out this Friday, May 10th) The Woolly Bushmen have gifted us another slab of killer rock n roll that I’m sure I’ll be spinning all year long. The album opens up with “What Yer Doing To Me”, catchy, straight up…
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New Week, New Release: Shana Cleveland’s “Night of The Worm Moon”
When I was a teenager, much to my parents’ chagrin, I painted my bedroom walls black. To contrast the blackness, I strung up Christmas lights around the room and installed a rainbow colored ceiling fan- each of it’s blades was a different color. I discovered that while the colors of the spinning blades were indistinguishable when the fan was on, by turning on a mini strobe light, each strobe flash would freeze an individual blade color, creating a really groovy effect. I spent many of my nights stoned, laying on my floor and listening to music while staring up at the stroboscopic rainbow spinning above me. Shana Cleveland’s sophomore solo…
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New Week, New Release: Kingdom Of The Holy Sun’s EP “The Man With The Little Hands”
With a new 4-track EP, Kingdom of the Holy Sun comes back with a bang. The album starts abruptly with its first song, Man with the Little Hands. It’s pretty obvious to me that the song is talking about a certain someone who happens to run our country. It immediately dives into lyrics, saying things like, “feeling like you’re a man.” This song exemplifies what dominant male energy feels like, walking into a room, commanding all attention, and immediately asserting your importance. With a playful and jiggy tune, it covers the fact that the lyrics are an obvious statement on a certain president and his similar energy-ed supporters. ♪feeling like…
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New Week New Release: Tomten’s “Viva Draconia”
Seattle’s Tomten have been creating glorious baroque pop since their formation in 2010. On their newest album Viva Draconia, released September 28th, they continue to give us a serving of pop perfection, but with added new-wave and psych flavors. Viva Draconia opens with “Balance of Terror”, a title which sounds quite scary, but is actually a beautiful, Beatle-eque composition, heavy on the piano with a chorus evocative of a church choir and featuring some surprising synth sounds throughout its bridge. Songs like “St.Martin’s Summer”, “Celadon Song” and “Gogmagog” have the same pop sensibility, but are all also incredibly well developed tracks with loads going on in them- the use…
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New Week New Release: Frankie Teardrop Dead “All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace”
Frankie Teardrop Dead’s newest release, All You Need Is Love And Fucking Peace is packed full of enough psychedelic dreamgaze to last you all week long. This is the London-based bands’ second album, and showcases the confidence of a band really coming into their own. All You Need is Love and Fucking Peace opens with “Short Story of The Mourning Sun”, a hazy-folky instrumental, before launching into the darker, post-punk psychedelia of “Joy in Division”, and then moving fluidly into dreamy space psych on “What’s It All About”. [wpdevart_youtube]du5sXuhqJ10[/wpdevart_youtube] Standout tracks include “I Love You (Me Neither)” which has a heavy Brian Jonestown Massacre influence, with its folky, bluesy guitars…
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New Week, New Release: Hollow Hand’s Star Chamber
Do you like The Kinks? Do you also like baby-making music? Then you’ll love Hollow Hand. The psych folk band, hailing from Brighton, centers mostly around Max Kinghorn-Mills, who not only looks like a young Ray Davies but writes songs like him too. The outfit’s 2nd album, Star Chamber, releases this Friday October 19th on Talkshow Records and is well worth taking for a spin. Star Chamber opens with “Ancestral Lands”, which sounds a bit like an unfinished demo, but is so beautiful in its rawness that it immediately locks you in as a listener. “Blackberry Wine” is a brilliant tune, sounding like the lost Kinks/Donovan collaboration. There are so…
