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Kadavar - Doomsday Machine
Virtually the first thing I did when I finished my final semester was pre-order this beauty. Pretty much the only thing I listen to my car anymore is Kadavar’s new record, Abra Kadavar. It channels everything I like about modern psych rock: fuzzy guitars, loose solos, and beards. It makes my morning drives to the library feel epic.
Mandrax Queen - Feel So Blue
I needed to get this band up here too. Just try to stop listening to this song. Mandrax Queen are a German fuzz rock band with the soulful touch of 60s/70s psychedelic blues. And just look at that cover! I’m always a sucker for astronaut art, but I think this could also be an allusion to the cover that Roger Dean designed for Babe Ruth’s First Base album where men in space-suits play baseball while riding space-sharks.
Plastic Violins of Darkness - Oculus non vidit, nec auris audivit
This album is a psychedelic monster. Each song is a 13 minute long chunk of fuzzy rock atmosphere and glacier-paced riffs. Plastic Violins of Darkness is a German group (I think) and put this record out as a free download through bandcamp. It’s meant to be listened to in the dead of night, with all the lights off and an old, worn blanket draped over you.
Kadavar - Goddess Of Dawn
Kadavar is a German psychedelic rock trio that Last.fm has been bugging me to listen to since they released this self-titled record at the beginning of the year. They channel everything I like about modern and classic heavy rock, and they would have definitely been a go-to car soundtrack for me this year if I’d tracked them down earlier. They remind me quite a bit of Graveyard, but with a rawer feel, and infinitely better beards.
Buddha Sentenza - Ride With The Devil
Space rock! Buddha Sentenza are a German psychedelic rock band that put out this album in 2009. Everything about this album screams fog machines and laser lights. The internet says that they used to jam in tunnels, which I want to believe is true but I couldn’t find the place they claimed those tunnels were through Google, so that might be something to take with a grain of salt. The music would probably sound amazing in tunnel, though. A foggy tunnel.
A.R. & Machines - Einladung
20 minute prog rock journey! A.R. & Machines was the krautrock vehicle of Achim Reichel, formed in the late 60s. This 1972 album, Echo, is a dreamy guitar-driven composition, filled with ambient strings and all the available delay, reverb, and echo effects. It’s a perfect autumn record for listening to while bundled up on the porch with headphones. Reichel’s former band, The Rattles, had opened for the Beatles during their final tour.
Thirsy Moon - Trashman
Thirsty Moon’s debut featured a 21 minute long progressive rock epic, but this 1972 folluw-up, You’ll Never Come Back, saw the band paring the records’ longest song down to a more humble 14 minutes. After this release the band starts to shorten most tracks down to radio-friendly sizes in a doomed attempt to boost their commercial appeal that only really served to alienate their original fan-base. So here’s Trashman, this album’s longest song, just to prove that the band’s magic really was in their long and fluid compositions.
Novalis - Wer Schmetterlinge Lachen Hort
I’ve been swamped with language homework this week, so I haven’t had much of a chance to blog. One of the 3 languages I’m taking this term is German, so here’s some German music! I’ve never posted from Novalis’ self-titled debut album, which is kind of strange since I usually start with debuts, and to make up for that, here’s a nice and long prog journey.
Novalis was a rock quintet from Hamburg that, as is alluded to in their choice of name, set out to create a poetic musical sound in the vein of German Romanticism.
