In my mind there are some cases when a band suddenly changed radically its style. For example when hc/punk Beastie Boys changed to hip-hop in 1983. When new wave synth pop Ministry became an industrial metal act around 87. When Metallica lost himself in 90. When one of the most thrilling thrash metal bands Voivod made a psychedelic rock album Angel Rat in same year. When industrial band Laibach became a successful cover band first, and then became a synth-pop band during the years gradually. And now here is the long awaited new Lantern album Black Highways and Green Garden Roads. And as if it were made by an other band.

After their sensational wild rock’n’roll album they have released an easy, almost distortion free, sometimes dark psychedelic folk rock album, „taking ideas from the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Carl Sagan, and Mikhail Bulgakov”. „It’s an exploration of the natural world and the cosmos, and a celebration of the wonderful, the serious, and the absurd.” They also said that it’s a result of many oversteeped pots of black tea.

It was recorded at The Bottle Garden, a home studio in Montreal filled with vintage gear and an array of instruments during 22 non-sequential days over a year and a half in 2013/14. More so than previous recordings, it is a collaborative effort born of studio improvising and collective exploration. They used new, unfamiliar instruments, such as organ and kalimba, and they experimented with tape loops and group harmonies.

Really fine songs – except for the cover version of Solomon Burke’s Cry To Me from 1962. It’s a mistake, just like the Rolling Stones’ version. (Listen to the original one.) The songs come Roy Orbison, 60s Rolling Stones, psychedelic era Voivod, and Illés (Hungarian beat legend) to my mind. And there is the bass theme of Dead Kennedys’ Holiday in Cambodia in the song We Are Here:

But the album is too long. And unfortunately badly edited, so it is hard to listen from first to last. It would have been better if there an LP with 10 songs and an EP with 4 (He Is A Pinball; Wait, Wait; Cry To Me; We Are Here Again) had been released.

Cassette by Fixture Records (Can) & LP by Sophomore Lounge (US)

Listen to it here

Russian band uSSSy originally played noise-rock with elements of blues, techno and black-metal. By the third album of the band they became a drum’n’guitar duo, and development of the band went in the direction of Middle Eastern music. The unique sound of the band is the result of use of a specially modified baritone guitar, which were mounted additional quarter-tone frets, just as those made by Middle Eastern instruments. In 2014 Artem has left the band. Pavel continuous to play by his own as Holy Palms.

A digital compilation album out now by Aussie label Tenzenmen: noise-rock with elements of blues, techno and black-metal and Middle Eastern tunes. Frenetic

All uSSSy albums

Jesus Franco & The Drogas
un gruppo di musica proto punk e garage punk Italiano

DAMAGE REDUCTION 10″out NOW

on Bloody Sound Fucktory

bandcamp

There is a fuckin good rock’n’roll band in Philadelphia. So ultra fuckin good that Goodbye Boozy also released them three years before. And at long last here is the new, the second LANTERN album! Black Highways and Green Garden Roads.

This has written about it by their labels: „Taking ideas from the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Carl Sagan, and Mikhail Bulgakov, the new album is an exploration of the natural world and the cosmos, and a celebration of the wonderful, the serious, and the absurd. More so than previous recordings, it is a collaborative effort born of studio improvisation and collective experimentation. The resulting collection is a diverse and sophisticated 14-song program that balances concise pop and lush psychedelic rock with weirder, headier jams.”  And it „is an ambitious and distinctly ’60s-inspired rock ‘n’ roll record, rich with surf, soul, and hard rock textures.”

cassette and digital by Fixture, vinyl by Sophomore Lounge Records

And here is the brilliant first album Rock’n’Roll Rorschach

https://soundcloud.com/fuzz-club-records/b1-dead

This is Sonic Jesus from Doganella Di Ninfa, Lazio, Italy.

And these are three (otherwise) great bands to which they are teaching a serious lesson:

• -Wooden Shjips
• -Crystal Stilts
• -The Black Angels

Wake up, men. Psychedelic rock is not about counting people down to sleep or merely jerking off with a musical instrument.

How about making a super trippy double album instead…?

Like the long-awaited debut, Neither Virtue Nor Anger by Sonic Jesus (released by Fuzz Club Records in April, 2015)

Ha már nem hatnak meg sem a rövid szavatosságú, felkapott külföldi zenekarok, akik három perces mutatványaikkal legfeljebb bólogatást váltanak ki és ha spirituális élmény volt a tavalyi Wooden Shjips koncert a hajón, akkor igazi örömhír, hogy Erik ‘Ripley’ Johnson ezúttal másik zenekarával érkezik Budapestre. A Moon Duo hangzása nem áll túl távol a Ripley első zenekarától, a Wooden Shjipstől megszokott elszállós, monoton pszichedelikus rocktól. A Ripley és felesége, Sanae alkotta duó azonban nem annyira a Velvet Underground felől közelít az elmélyüléshez, hanem inkább úgy érdemes zenéjüket elképzelni, mintha Suicide számokat akarnának játszani gitáros felállásban. A teret kitöltő visszhangok és a pszichedélia azonban egy percre sem írja felül a minimalizmust.

Legújabb lemezük, a Shadow Of The Sun idén jött ki a Sacred Bones Recordsnál és pontosan olyan, mint amilyenre a Moon Duótól számítani lehet, viszont ez egyáltalán nem baj.

JÚLIUS 17.  BUDAPEST  A38

Frantic City is hyperactive French label from the rebellious La Rochelle. It has released Froth‘s debut album months before that it will be released in America by Burger and Lolipop Records.

Just because I’ve got this album from France when I listened to it first times I thought Froth is an anglomaniac French band.But not. They’re from California. Their music is British style psychedelic indie rock from Jesus & Mary Chain to Oasis and forth. I’m sick of this style, but if you not, I’m sure this album will be nice for you

Buy it here

Silver Apples of Rome
Trans Upper Egypt
mystic psychedelic rock

Moon Doom

from the new album on Monofonus Press (US)

29 JANUARY, THURSDAY, 9 PM
BUDAPEST, CORVINTETŐ
(Blaha square, Corvin Dept. Store, left side)

SKIP JENSEN GROUP (Can) – Supersonic Rock’n’Roll

THE HANDS (F) – Hard Psych Garage     ODDDS (H) – Fuzz Punk

Ticket: 1200 HUF     Facebook event

Start at 9pm punctually!!! Really.

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You, Whom I Have Always Hated is the second collaborative album of two really heavy metal bands, the body and Thou. Nine Inch Nails cover: Terrible Lie

LP or CD with both collaborative albums on Thrill Jockey Records (US)

The original pop metal song.

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The first Ty Segall records in the new year. Psych retro garage rock for hippies

Mr Face 2 x 7″ EP on Famous Class Records (US)

His final record of last year: Ty Segall Band – Motörhead / Paranoid 7″ single on Drag City Records. Hard retro garage rock for rockers

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SKIP JENSEN GROUP (Can) – Supersonic Rock n Roll
THE HANDS (F) – Hard Psych Garage
ODDDS (H) – Fuzz Punk

2015. JANUÁR 29. CSÜTÖRTÖK, 21:00
PONTOS KEZDÉS!!!
BUDAPEST, CORVINTETŐ
(Blaha Lujza tér, Corvin Áruház, bal oldal)

Jegy: 1200 –      Facebook event

SKIP JENSEN GROUP

Az, hogy elhívjuk Skip Jensen-t (született Serge Gendron) koncertezni, azóta vágya az RNR666-nak, amióta az RNR666 koncert szervezéssel is foglalkozik, ennek lassan tíz éve. Skip Jensen január 29.-én három tagú zenekarával, a Skip Jensen Group-pal lép fel a Budapesten. Tavaly januárban adták ki első nagylemezüket, majd egy kislemezt, és készítettek egy videóklipet:

Saját meghatározásuk zenéjükre igen találó: Supersonic Rock’n’Roll. Bluesból, észak-amerikai folkból és persze jófajta elszabadult rock’n’roll-ból összegyúrt muzsika. Őszinte, egyszerű és tiszta, hasonlóan mint grafikai munkái, képregényei. Aki szereti az Oblivianst, a Bassholes-t vagy a The Mojomatics-et ezzel a koncerttel nem nyúlhat mellé. Ki is ő, honnan indult? Kicsit bővebben. Tovább / Read more »