![]() „Their self-titled debut is easily one of the most pleasant psychedelic albums of 2019. How does it go for you? Me? I think it deserves an Oscar!!" (Psych Lovers/ Ian Mc Glynn) (.) This album is a rollercoaster ride from start to finish, leaving the listener exhausted after a nail biting journey through the cosmos. "Acid Rooster’s debut self-titled album has been the biggest surprise of 2019. (.) The whole album has a wonderful warm feel to it, but also one that takes your mind to other places as it winds its way around its six tracks." (Freq / Gary Parson) "When the feedback kicks in we are into total freak-out territory" on Acid Rooster's debut studio LP, "an adrenaline kick to get your spaceship smashing into hyperspace. And if you check that box and also like to get your music on vinyl, move fast, as I expect the three hundred copies pressed on that format to move fast." (The Burning Beard / Gabriel) If you dig on psychedelic rock, do not let this one slip past you unheard. "All in all, it's a fantastic album, and a thoroughly impressive first LP. These guys deliberately avoid generic and succinct ditties: each track is an epic journey into experimental rock’s most uncharted domains." The dynamics of this band diverge from weightless, spaced out aerobatics to the more sublime, monolithic jams. "Acid Rooster are pretty much a wet dream for heads who cram their cabinets with Amon Düül, Spacemen 3, Wooden Shjips and Magma. "This self-titled LP has that indescribable something else that takes it above the herd… that joie d’vivre that gives music like this an edge… a degree of tightness and excitement that takes it above and beyond." (The Fragmented Flaneur) This is one of the best contemporary psych records I’ve heard, not just of this year but of any year! Buy it and let it take you to special places." (Echoes & Dust / Dan Salter) ![]() (.) Every time you think they’ve taken a break, given you a bit of a breather, a slow track to let you regain your senses, you quickly realise that no, the drop in tempo is purely there so they can wind it up, and up, and up again, until we are once more in orbit. It’s Acid Rooster’s strength to relentlessly take you well beyond the astral planes." Mainlining the spirit of Agitation Free, Neu! or any of the well known German psych and krautrock pioneers, Acid Rooster’s partially-written and part-improv take on free-thinking psych is equal parts monolithic and hypnotic, executed with genuine conviction – it’s like being catapulted into orbit by wave after cosmic wave in a maelstrom of psychedelic flavors, whether it’s blistering guitar pyrotechnics or the downtempo check-ins with your consciousness. And not to exaggerate - ‘Acid Rooster‘ is one of the best contemporary psych records around, (.). "Though Acid Rooster have flown their freak flag high for many moons, the band only released their impressive S/T debut very recently. Patrick Schönfeld: throat singing on Moon Loop ![]() Jan Werner: 12-string guitar on Moon Loop & Ätherīodo Hansen: synthesizer on Sulfur & FocusĬhristopher Kunz: tenor saxophone on Sulfur Max Leicht: bass, sitar, synthesizer, mellotron Another Bandcamp holiday is upon us, the least you can do is give some love to this near-perfect documentation of mind-fry goodness.Recorded by Jan Werner & Frank Oberländer at Zentralantiquariat Leipzig. This performance proves essential for both KM fans and collectors of Ryley’s ever-growing pieces of his live improv pantheon. Sometimes the best phrase is already cast. Molten wax guitars, percolating sweat rhythms, sonic symbiosis and, well as the band so succinctly puts it - deep fried grandeur. The pieces are truly two halves of a whole experience, the time needed to flip is just a breath between sonic sculptures, haunted and hungry. There are no surges of applause, no banter, just the assembled players finding their way around the cosmic cloud for a touch under an hour. With Cooper Crain mixing it down in Chicago post performance, the record quite honestly bears few hallmarks of a live record. ![]() This is exactly the argument for live records done right. The Utrecht festival boasts a long history of collaboration and genre-defining/defying performances, and the meeting of Walker and Kikagaku Moyo on the stage is a performance that practically beged to be documented, pressed and pondered. The set on Deep Fried Grandeur was recorded live at Le Guess Who? in 2018. ![]() As Ryley’s Husky Pants label continues to bloom into a fertile ground for experimentation, here it becomes a necessary hub of documention some of the guitarist’s historical high water marks as well. ![]()
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