Hills "Uncollected Sound"

Country: Sweden
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label:  Cardinal Fuzz (UK), Sky Lantern Records (USA)
Format: CD, vinyl, cassette, digital
Release date: January 13, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Death Will Find A Way [Live] (10:46)
2. Schlaraffenland (12:26)
3. Messias II (7:46)
4. Flojtjola Med Tema Fran Solen (3:36)
5. Are You Real (8:52)

Total Time 43:26

Line-up: 
Pelle - guitar, vocals
Hanna - drums
Bob - bass
Kalle - guitar
Tore - organ, vocals

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Now here’s some great news for all of us who have been longing to own a copy of the band’s almost mythical debut album, which they pressed themselves back on 2009... UK label Cardinal Fuzz and US imprint Sky Lantern Records are repressing the album, which is also remastered with a sleeve encompassing the original artwork (by Marcus Iversson), but this time beautifully printed on a Sliver Laminated Sleeve. If that were not enough excitement for one day, the album will be coming out as a double with a bonus lp of previously unreleased material entitled ‘Uncollected Sounds’…direct customers to both labels will also be able to buy ‘Uncollected Sounds’ separately in an special limited edition with screen printed sleeve; and a cassette version and CDr will also be available. (backseatmafia.com)

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Dreamtime "Strange Pleasures"

Country: Australia
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label: Sky Lantern Records (USA), Cardinal Fuzz (EU/UK), Tym guitars (AUS)
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: December 2, 2016
Tracklist: 
1. Luminous Knight (7:16)
2. Golden Altar (8:29)
3. River Sprites (5:33)
4. Fire (8:52)
5. Ascension (6:22)
6. The Sentient (7:52)
7. Strange Pleasures (7:59)
8. Celestial Spores (2:56)
9. Spectral Entropy (11:22)
10. Gamma Globulin (4:06)
11. Serpent's Tongue (6:07)

Total time 76:54

Line-up: 
Zac Anderson - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Cat Maddin - Bass, Lead Vocals, Theremin
Tara Wardrop - Drums Percussion, Vocals
Fergus Smith - Synth, Guiar, Shahi Baaja, Vocals

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For the development of their latest opus, Dreamtime went about creating an imaginary, dream-like sci-fi fantasy film that follows a spirit's journey from the human body through death, mystic rituals, the spirit world, a soul's liberation into the cosmos, multiple reincarnations, and out into astral journeys and alien encounters. It's a vivid exploration of euphoric fantasy and paranoid nightmares that is sure to stand as one of the most ambitiously creative projects the international psychedelic-rock scene has seen in many a moon. For intrepid psychonauts wishing to hitch a ride, Dreamtime hits all of the sweetest aural spots: heavy tribal grooves on the opening track “Luminous Night”, laid back folk-rock trad on “River Spites”, propulsive, full-on fuzztone during “The Sentient,” and the celestial lysergia that is the album's epic title track, all interwoven together with kosmische analogue synth swirls and space oscillations.

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Kikagaku Moyo "Mammatus Clouds"

Country: Japan
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Space Rock
Label:  Sky Lantern Records (digital, cassette), Captcha Records (USA, vinyl), Cardinal Fuzz (UK/EU, vinyl & CD)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl, cassette
Release dates: April 4, 2014 (digital), April 30, 2014 (cassette), July 2014 (UK/EU, vinyl & CD), September 2, 2014 (USA, vinyl)
Tracklist: 

1. Pond (27:50)

2. Never Know (16:49)

3. There Is No Other Place (3:18)

Line-up: 
Tomo Katsurada - Vocal, Guitar
Daoud Popal - Guitar
Ryu Kurosawa - Sitar
Kotsu Guy - Bass
Go Kurosawa - Drums, Voice

Description/Reviews: 

Mammatus clouds are crazy-weird udder formations that appear during storms and 幾何学模様 (Kikagaku Moyo) translates as geometric patterns, something these “free music” aficionados claim to see flashing across their eyelids during mammoth jam sessions. The band’s recent Forest Of Lost Children is, naturally therefore, beyond intense, so it’s pleasant to hark back to more meditative times here. There are only three tracks during Mammatus Clouds’ patient running time and they’re all quite different.
The entire A-side is dedicated to “Pond”, a 27-minute sitar-fired super-jam that gently wends its way from ebbing cosmic shimmer to pulsing ritual and Eastern drone. Locking on with 10 minutes to go, the track launches into fuel-injected wormhole exploration only to exit in the tranquil third eye of some psychedelic storm. You’re ultimately jarred from this reverie by rapturous applause to close, serving to underline the one-take epicness of what went before.
On the flip, sitar player Ryu bends and bubbles his strings for 16 minutes on “Never Know”, an acidic hiss creeping into the mix that fills the ears with serpentine suggestion before descending into white noise and unintelligible muttering. Side B then closes with “There Is No Other Place” – much more than the 3-minute tag-on it may first appear. That mumbling vocal grows in stature, a gothic gloom developing amidst the Birds Of Maya-style static. Rampant pedal abuse follows to sandblast the ears and the strutting rocker it becomes a real face-melter.(sicmagazine.net)

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