Remember the first time you experienced Goatsnake? Well, the Californian desert has again come up trumps. Ogressa, featuring desert-rock royalty in the form of Zach Huskey and Scott Reeder – not to mention the underrated talents of: Trent Ramseyer (lead vocals), Joe Dillon (guitar), Mike Jacobson (bass) and Ian Dye on drums – revisit the classic combination of way-low tunings and mid-tempo grooves. Heaviness personified.
Steeped in dark, desert grooves, there are times during ‘Coral Lady’ where the young Belfast trio could have easily sprung out of the Rancho De La Luna heartland.
Wasting no time in capitalising on the underground success of March’s ‘Rat Bag/Texty Texty’ single, this lengthy, loose-limbed assault, combines the explosive, out-of-nowhere art-punk of the Mars Volta with the soaring highs of Songs For The Deaf. Yummy.
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Nectarine Pie’s early interpretation of psychedelic garage is irrepressibly cool. Firmly rooted in the flower-power era, the young Oakland four-piece combine the warm and fuzzy know-how of the 13th Floor Elevators with British Invasion pastiche.
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Endorsed by Dali’s Llama, Melbourne’s Matt Sonic and the High Tides shun arena rock aesthetics in favour of loud, raucous fuzzed-out rock.
The limited edition single is the first track to be taken from their forthcoming album This Love Electric, and is according to the four-piece: “a captivating and somewhat pummelling journey, through the freedom of love redemption from heartache.”
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Wet Years’ debut single is the soundtrack to gazing dewy-eyed into lapping coastal waters on a warm evening.
The unsigned San Diego trio also gets nostalgic for ex-college crushes as ‘Lost Surf’ breezes its way through three minutes of crisp atmospheric swirls of hopeful surf-guitar strumming, alluding to the fleeting, never-quite-long-enough nature of summer.
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A bonus track left over from November’s Breeze Blows West recordings ‘Born of Eclipse’ continues to mould descending riffs and patient drumming into atmospheric psychedelic circles.
You Know Who is a band who plays hard and wears their hearts of their sleeves.
Featuring Mike Pyrgmie (guitar), Dylan Brown (bass) and Rob Peterson on drums ‘Marshall Stacks’ gallops and shoots electric arcs of hardcore punk.
As well as showing their punk rock credentials, the Palm Desert trio also has an outstanding desert rock pedigree, having recently played alongside Big Scenic Nowhere at the Rock for Isaiah Benefit Concert.
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The Vitorianos have been playing their brand of Basque-tinged rock since 2005, and their love of: Colour Haze, Clutch and Viaje a 800 is sure to bring them success in Europe and America.
‘Receiving the Liquid Writings’ is the first track to be taken off their debut album Beats of Olarizu, which is due out in April.
Listen to the track here.
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Brisbane’s Dreamtime put their wah-wah pedals to good use, as they trip in and out of heavy-psych passages and Hawkwind swooshes.
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The unsigned four-piece based in Montréal, Quebec, take a trip into the desert for their latest single ‘Our Spinning Mind’.
