Balmorhea - Tour EP 2008

Pronounced ‘Bal-moor-ay’, the Texan duo of Rob Lowe and Michael Muller have composed a tranquil, glistening affair brimming with organic instrumentation and bereft of any focus-slipping lyricism. Mirroring the vast Texas skies, Balmorhea's music is imbued with a visceral weight and endless space. Tour EP 2008.

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Super Minerals - The Pelagics

"A new age slowburner that leads the listener on drone-descent through the five classified depth zones of the ocean – the pelagics. The deeper the Minerals duo dive, the stranger their field transmissions and creature encounters become. Whale moan symphonies, sonar decay, poisonous urchin, squid in telepathic sex-trance, underwater lava, and the bones of our ancestors who fought for their land over the face of the sea."

Super Minerals - The Pelagics

Justice Yeldham

Just saw this guy last night at an art school in Jakarta. Fucking amazing!












Check him out here.

Photos by Moses Sihombing

The Skaters - Dispersed Royalty Ornamanets

"Staggering low-grade psychedelic murk and splintered free jazz
soul from this new American duo (James Ferraro & Spencer Clark)
who deal in the same kind of densely populated occult space as
Double Leopards, using destroyed vocal loops, cracked stomp-boxes
and endless layers of accumulated fug. a technicolour vortex of
strangulated vocals, teeth-mashing chant and DIY trephining matched
with some the most beautifully hypnotic noise/drone alchemy."
- David Keenan / The Wire & Volcanic Tongue

The Skaters - Dispersed Royalty Ornamanets

Pocahaunted - Peyote Road

Evolving comes easier to some than others. A lot of the 21st century's chief underground ringbearers are happy mining the same psych-ditch for the same warped ore, tape after tape and day after day. But Eagle Rock, CA's Pocahaunted are too restless (and easily annoyed?) to sit still like that, and so spent all of '07 throwing ever weirder new figures and moods into their amplifier family, and "Peyote Road" shows the motion of their transformation agenda. The A side ritual, "Divine Flesh," stirs hand drums and chimes into a bellydancing blur of voice smoke and rhythm before breaking down into its base elements and slowly reforming. The flip side ("Heroic Doses") documents Pocahaunted's set opening for Thurston Moore on Halloween night in the wasted and highly un-mystical California desert town of Visalia. Bobb Bruno and Britt Brown backed up the ladies' blown-out but melancholy wailing wall with electronic drums and drones, and the recording treads a dim, no-fi path into a bleak and holy void. With tribal-psychedelia collage jacket artwork by Owleyes.

Pocahaunted - Peyote Road