Lotsa new stuff...
Smoke Fairies – Darkness Brings The Wonders Home. They’re back! (err, soon, living in the future again here). And it still sounds exactly like them ie. folky/sultry and very English blues rock – maybe a slight return to a grittier guitar tone. Definitely less keys than the last one. V good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XtPP3Ewe-M
Sons Of Raphael – s/t. Without wanting to sound like some mouth-breathing Radio 1 DJ, you’re going to be hearing lots about these guys over the next 12 months (that’s the kiss of death right there). Teenage brothers making widescreen ecstatic psych pop a la Flaming Lips, Spiritualized etc, only much better, in that they sound utterly fresh and unburdened by historical baggage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6xG8ZszcRg&feature=youtu.be
Per Svensson – Psychedelic Sounds. Per looks like he might live in the back woods of Sweden heading up a modest end times cult. Though I see he’s previously collaborated with Ebbot from, yes, The Soundtrack Of Out Lives. 80 mins of primitively recorded post-punkish psych/blues. In other words, Joy Division covering The Doors and vice versa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfHxYaaoLjw
Sonar & David Torn – Tranceportation Vol 1. If King Crimson did trance techno: https://sonar-band.bandcamp.com/album/tranceportation-vol-1
Church Of Hed – The Fourth Hour. Decent enough cosmic/synthy rock: https://quarkspace.bandcamp.com/album/the-fourth-hour
VA – Ethereal Transects. More modern pagan gubbins, a few interesting tracks: https://soundcloud.com/folklore-tapes/ethereal-transects-the-lore-of-celestial-objects
VA – MOJO Best of 2019. Freebie CD. I don’t watch Later… with JH anymore, but I imagine that this is EXACTLY what it sounds like these days. Features just one track that you could easily classify as rock, and that by those Wizard Gizzard people, though admittedly, it is rather ace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UELbVHComM4
Field Music – Making A New World
Calm – Mantra One. Ah, so this is what the bloke from Humanfly is doing now. Pretty good, Om fans will like: https://calmone.bandcamp.com/releases
Pulselovers – Cotswold Stone. Hauntological/pastoral electronica from Doncaster. Slightly second division Ghost Box, but enjoyable nonetheless: https://pulselovers.bandcamp.com/album/cotswold-stone
The Heartwood Institute – Tomorrow’s People. Ditto, though Hawkwind/Mick Farren fans note the track tiles ‘Phun City’, ‘The Texts Of Festival’ and ‘Powis Square’: https://theheartwoodinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrows-people
The Duke St Workshop – Monte Verdi. Missed this from last year. Loved their HP Lovecraft album from a few years back, this is slighter but still good: https://thedukestworkshop.bandcamp.com/album/monte-verdi
Twelfth Night – A Night To Remember
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