My bloody valentine - Sometimes

First online single from the Living Eyes new LP "Living Large", due out January 2015.
Out in AU through Anti Fade from January 30 and in UK/EU through Agitated from January 19.

Geelong delinquents the Living Eyes have just churned out a second LP of burners to hit the shelves early 2015, following their self-titled debut from 2013.  
Since then the band have thrown around a handful of singles, shows and a split 7”, but its common ground that all arrows are pointed towards this new long player. As of January 30, the Living Eyes will unhinge a new belt of stompers to make up LP round two. 
The album was predominantly recorded by Straight Arrows’ front man Owen Penglis over a day and a half spent in Sydney at Penglis’ new hideout; Goliath Professional Recording Studio. The tapes were then driven back down the Hume highway and finished off in a couple of West Geelong bedrooms, before being mailed to Rye mixing master, Mikey Young. 
Living Large takes off in a somewhat new direction since the S/T LP, filling out with more sharp cuts and guitar crunch but still keeping the snotty sound they’d always had. In a few words – it’s a poppy punk record that sounds nothing like pop punk. 
But it’s nothing to dwell on - its ten tracks wide and 26 minutes minutes long and it’ll spin faster than your average long player any day of the week. 



THE LIVING EYES - High Standards (Living Large LP - 2015)

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An End Has A Start - Editors

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Far to the north-east of Brazil’s twin musical capitals of Rio and São Paulo, lies the city of Recife, in the state of Pernambuco. During the country’s lengthy and oppressive military dictatorship (1964-1985), a cadre of like-minded and socially conscientious musicians were quietly building their own music scene, away from the glare of the censors.... for a time, at least.

Strongly influenced by the psychedelic music coming out of America and Britain (and further inspired by visits to India and Morocco), local musicians such as Zé Ramalho, Lula Côrtes & Alceu Valença were to be the vanguard of their own, wild, hedonistic Psyche-scene. There would be sitars and lutes merging with traditional Pernambucan percussion; constant collaborations and ethereal art-collectives; experiments with ‘found-sound’ colliding with earthy flutes and driving backlines – all helped along by men wearing lipstick, acid, mushrooms, marijuana, suggestive dancing and plenty of onstage kissing.  
 
The songs and artists featured on this album are a fittingly schizophrenic selection. Psychedelic Pernambuco finds crazed ethno-punk giving way to tweaked Americana; mystical jungle-folk stands alongside cocaine-fuelled fuzz-rock, and acid-raga trance segues into mutated proto-disco.  
 
The party couldn’t last forever. The military were a constant nuisance and a growing threat to these underground experimentalists. In one famous incident Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho were forced to leave Recife and flee to the woods to record their cult-classic album, Paebiru – named after the mystical Paebiru Stone which is alleged to have alien hieroglyphs carved into its sides. In the end, compounding factors like the ascent of modern-rock and the severe restrictions on their output by the military (whole pressings of albums were frequently seized and destroyed), led many of the vanguard of the Pernambucan scene to slowly dissipate and eventually blow away with the wind, like so much marijuana smoke. The final hurrah would come from Lula Côrtes, who, wishing to “close all this with a golden key”, went into a small studio in 1980 to record ‘Rosa de Sangue’ – it was duly destroyed upon its completion. Nobody knows if any copies survived.

Double vinyl LP, CD and download with sleeve notes by Mr Bongo.


Lula Côrtes - Noite Prêta

Coil - fire of the mind

Forever Dolphin Love

Sneaky Dog Friend (Live)

Al Lover explores the psychedelic underground of the past, present and future in #ElevatedTransmissions

Look out for a new batch of tunes each week...

This week Al explores the lineup for the 8th annual LEVITATION SXSW, presented with CREEM Magazine. March 14 at Hotel Vegas in Austin, TX! Info here: https://levitation-austin.com/levitation-sxsw-2019_presented-by-creem-magazine/

Amyl and The Sniffers - Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled)
Mike Krol - An Ambulance
Oh Sees - Abysmal Urn
Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Pleasure 
Thee MVPs - Funeral
DYGL - Bad Kicks
The Mystery Lights - Too Many Girls
Melenas - Mentiras
Moonwalks - Sequins
Dopey’s Robe - Oblong Sayonara
The Blank Tapes - It’s in My Mind
Holy Wave - The Nurse’s Tale
Nothing - I Hate The Flowers
Wand - Scarecrow
Jonathan Bree - Coke
The Chills - Pink Frost 13
Numb.er - A Memory Stained
The KVB - Above Us
Boogarins - Sombra ou Duvida
Anemone - She’s the One
CHAI - N.E.O. 
KOKOKO! - Affaire a Mbongo
Combo Chimbita - Testigo
XIXA - Osiris 
Dead Meadow - Rest Natural

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