GARAGE AND PSYCHEDELIC 2022 PART III

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Chaparral

taken from the forthcoming album Above The Clouds

What You're Doin' To Me

The Anarchist In Me

"an invigorating journey, the track underpinned by a sense of shadiness that feels all the more compelling as the track rolls on and on and on, the mood dense and foreboding aside, always threatening to suddenly let loose, but staying somewhat static instead, save for the occasional spike in temperature" GoldFlakePaint

"every song effortlessly pieces together a narrative of a trouble, a grungey, slow-core take on American songwriting that never feels like it's anywhere near a cliche" Monorail Music, Glasgow

"Conjuring up sleepy, hazy days... really pull you in with their lyrics" Ravechild

"sulky, angsty and strikingly beautiful in its delivery" Overdrive

"first appear to have a slower, solemn drone, yet their sound disintegrates into loud, melancholic, distorted noise" Indulge Sound

CHUMP are a sulkcore three-piece from Glasgow. “the kind of music you’d heard for last dance at the prom in a ‘90s teen dramedy… before the flames rise up and everyone dies.” It started as the sleepyheaded bedroom project of singer and guitarist (yeah, she knows it’s upside-down) Tara, and soon loudly woke up with the addition of drummer Matt and bass player Tony.

They've played shows with the likes of Chastity Belt, PAWS, and Diet Cig.

In late 2016 they recorded at Green Door Studios. These songs became their first EP, the cassette Treat Me Mean, which they released by themselves as a non-prank on April Fool’s Day. It’s all worked out though because they’ve had to repress that cassette.

Returning to Green Door Studios, they recorded their forthcoming 7” on Gerry Loves Records, ‘At Least We Got a Song Out of It’. A shrugging kiss-off of a song, a diss track for summertime. The b-side ‘Lose Your Life’ features Tony on vocals, calmly offering advice to the listener against a lullaby-esque instrumental.

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CHUMP - At Least We Got a Song Out of It

Exploded View's 'Summer Came Early' EP isout November 10 on Sacred Bones Records.
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Digital Preorder: https://explodedview.bandcamp.com/album/summer-came-early-ep

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You Got A Problem Son

From Shudder to Think's "Ten Spot." This LP reissue will be out January 19th, 2018 on Dischord Records.

Ten Spot (Remaster)

Shudder to Think - "Jade-Dust Eyes"

POP LEVI - Medicine

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

Look out for a new batch of tunes each week + subscribe to the ongoing on Spotify playlist here: open.spotify.com/playlist/3901y34ldDhBPgNIVbLQQf

FONTAINES D.C. - Boys In The Better Land
Automatic - Calling It
The Dirtbombs - Sharivari
Peaking Lights - Mirror In The Sky
Four Tet - Teenage Birdsong
Ras G - All Is Well…
Vuelveteloca - L.A. (AL Lover Remix)
Yndi Halda - A Sun-Coloured Shaker (Prefuse 73 Remix)
Samiyam - Number 13 (Bellz)
Larraaji, Arji OceAnanda & Dallas Acid - This Much More
Eivind Aarset - Namib
Ben LaMar Gay - Galveston
Odd Nosdam - Cookies
Vanishing Twin - Cryonic Suspension May Save Your Life
Stonefield - 66
Polyrock - Your Dragging Feet
The Wake - Host
Alexia Gredy - L’habitude (Geoff Barrow Version)
Jonathon Bree & Clara Vinals - Say You Love Me Too
Anna Domino - Trust, In Love
The Cleaners From Venus - Tukani (Monday Is Grey)
Trash Kit - Horizen
Ginger Baker’s Air Force - We Free Kings
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids - Rhapsody In Berlin
75 Dollar Bill - I Was Real

Al Lover's ELEVATED TRANSMISSIONS | 08.01.19

Kompromat

It Grows Under

International Teachers Of Pop rework the first single from bdrmm’s debut album, which released later this year.

Recorded by Alex Greaves at The Nave, Leeds
Remix by International Teachers Of Pop
Mastered by Carim Clasmann

Buy here: https://bdrmm.bandcamp.com/track/happy-international-teachers-of-pop-de-mix

Happy (International Teachers Of Pop De-Mix)

bdrmm – Happy (International Teachers Of Pop De-Mix)

Cavehead 7"

Cavehead

The All Is One

The Same Old Rock (One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy)

Cool Ghouls - a band fledged in San Francisco on house shows, minimum wage jobs, BBQ's in Golden Gate Park and the romance of a city’s psychedelic history turns 10 this year. What better a decennial celebration than the release of their fourth album, At George's Zoo!

How did San Francisco's fab four arrive at George's Zoo? The teenage friendship of complimentary spirits Pat McDonald (Guitar/Vox) and Pat Thomas (Bass/Vox) serves as square one. The Patricks were munching on Eggo-waffle-sandwiches and downing warm Taaka in suburban Benicia years before McDonald would hear George Clinton address his fans as "Cool Ghouls". The boys played their debut gig as Cool Ghouls at San Francisco's legendary The Stud in 2011, but there's no doubt the musical moment cementing the band's trajectory was much earlier at the 18th birthday party for boy-wonder Ryan Wong (Guitar/Vox) - at the Wong household.

You might remember the Ghouls' earliest days... McDonald’s hair hung luxuriously past his waist, Thomas dreamt of no longer having to crash on friends' couches to call SF home and Wong looked forward to turning 21. Cool Ghouls' Pete Best, Cody Voorhees, thrashed wildly - but briefly - on the drums and Alex Fleshman (Drums), who still claims he's not really "a drummer", turned out to be a really good drummer. Thomas would sleep pee on tour. Those were golden days!

Flash forward to today and everything is up in flames. No shows, parties or bars. Cool people are streaming out of SF. It's been 2 years since the last time Cool Ghouls have even played. The STUD is gone, The Eagle Tavern is for sale and The Hemlock has been demolished for condos. Your boss is an app. Fascism is no-knocking down the door. There's a pandemic.

Fortunately for us, the ghouls got an album in before it all went to shit, and they made it count. At George's Zoo includes 15 of the 27 tunes they managed to eke out while simultaneously working through major life moves. It was a 5-month, all out, final sprint down the homestretch (to Ryan's moving day) with affable engineer Robby Joseph, at his makeshift garage studio in the Outer Sunset (pictured on the cover). Instead of recording the entire album over a few consecutive days - like they'd done with Tim Cohen, Sonny Smith and Kelley Stoltz for the first three LPs - the band took it slow by working through a few songs each weekend after rehearsing them the week before. Robby would cue up the tape, McDonald would throw some steaks on the grill and they'd get to work - much to the neighbor, George's, chagrin.

These guys have a real commitment to elevating as songwriters, musicians and ensemble players. It's always been for the music with Cool Ghouls and this long-awaited self-produced outing is a track by track display of the ground they've covered and heights they can achieve. Their vocals and trademark harmonies are front and center and out-of-control-good. Ryan's guitar solos are incredible. The horns by Danny Brown (sax) and Andrew Stephens (trumpet) hit in all the right places. Maestro, Henry Baker (Pat Thomas Band / Tino Drima), plays keys throughout. There's even a mesmerizing string section ("Land Song") by sonic polyglot, Dylan Edrich.

None of this growth is to the detriment of the fun, natural, feeling that fans have come to expect from the band. This is a fully realized Cool Ghouls album. It paints a remarkable portrait of SF's homegrown heroes and the many corners they've explored over the last decade. The songwriting, harmony and playing are nothing if not solid. The lyrics are keen. Robby's recording and mixing sound great start to finish and even better after mastering by Mikey Young. It's a triumphant addition to their catalogue. Recommended for Stooges and Beach Boys fans alike. Listen and see!

At George's Zoo

Cool Ghouls - Helpless Circumstance

First single off the new 7” out in Goodbye Boozy, January 2021.

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