DUAL FIGHTER is an American hard rock duo from Indianapolis. A unique brand of rock fusing fuzz-driven guitars, melodic psych-rock and a touch of doom with stacks of volume and riff-focused energy inviting listeners to fall into a wormhole of heavy rock bliss.
The new album "Mean Machines" was released March 25, 2022 via Galactic Fire Records. Written, arranged, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Greg Osborne. Mastered by Tyler Watkins at Postal Recording. Album cover designed by Greg Osborne
Greg Osborne: guitars, vocals
Andrew Funke: bass
Today's tune "Fireball" is taken from the 2022 album "Mean Machines". Enjoy!
The alternatie Scotish band MODERN STUDIES have released "Light A Fire", a tune that is a contrast of a space-psych-shuffle with lush 70s style three part harmonies. Together with the subtly arresting strings (which were written as if for a grand orchestral ensemble but restrained to a trio), these became defining sounds of the new album "We Are There" released February 18, 2022.
Through the hazy daze of a smoky folk opus, MODERN STUDIES craft rich soundtracks, stuttering Super-8 sketches from a washed-out world of melancholy, hand-tinted and tantalising. Lullaby couplets blossom into gorgeous chamber pop melodies, the drama unfolding behind Emily Scott’s plaintive vocal; part Julie London, part Sandy Denny, a little bit Kate Bush, with a hushed sigh of Joni.
Sweeping strings carry them into unchartered terrain on this new release, flying high above their psych-folk roots, it’s an epic journey that’s exquisitely delivered, transcending categories, nodding to Brubeck, Low, Talk Talk, Jim O’Rourke and Pentangle, making music that is ready to cross over in these modern times with songs of substance.
On their new album "We Are There", an ambient muse moves through the shadows, analogue instruments creak and Laurel Canyon harmonies tingle in tape-echoed air; melody and magic conspire to create something way beyond the sum of its many parts, elevating Modern Studies from self-made innovators to poetic protagonists.
Today's tune "Light A Fire", taken from the new album "We Are There", enjoy!
In the modern era, you’d be hard-pressed to find an artist who continues to push the creative envelope as much as Leslie Winer. Three decades after her revolutionary debut album "Witch", her work remains just as startling, fresh, and as vital as the day it was committed to tape. Yet, somehow, she’s largely flown under the radar, until now...
"When I Hit You — You’ll Feel It" is first and foremost a sum of disparate elements: intoxicatingly strident drum loops, jagged slices of distorted guitar, and of course, Leslie’s blithely cool yet unflinchingly self-assured words skating across the soundscapes like timeless poetry—it’s a sonic collage that is both as nuanced and headstrong—a reflection of the complexity of the artist herself.
Featuring musical contributions from Jon Hassell, Jah Wobble, Helen Terry, Renegade Soundwave’s Karl Bonnie, and others, this expansive anthology solidifies Winer’s reputation as an innovator and a trailblazer, extending her reputation far beyond her traditionally accepted credit as the grandmother of trip-hop made popular later by Portishead, Massive Attack, and others.
Musician, poet, iconoclast, model, artist, enigma. Leslie Winer is many things.
Born to a teenage mother and sold for $10,000 in a black market adoption when she was just hours old, Winer has always lived an uncommon life. She grew up in Boston with a voracious appetite for music and the written word and embraced the city’s lively jazz and folk scene in the ‘70s. Moving to New York for art school, she gravitated towards a vibrant crowd of intellectuals, artists, and radical thinkers—or perhaps they gravitated towards her.
There, Winer formed an unlikely friendship with writer and artist William S. Burroughs and lived on-and-off with Jean-Michel Basquiat. In London, where Winer began her musical ventures in earnest, she was a regular at Leigh Bowery’s underground club Taboo, where she met many of her collaborators, including filmmaker John Maybury, Kevin Mooney (of Adam and the Ants), and Boy George, who once declared that Winer “might just be the coolest woman on the planet!”
Winer’s striking looks also attracted fashion designers and photographers. Throughout the early ‘80s, she was an in-demand model—appearing in campaigns for Valentino, Christian Dior, and Yohji Yamamoto, and serving as a muse for a young Jean-Paul Gaultier, who later dubbed Winer “the first androgynous model.” She posed for Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Pierre et Gilles, and graced the covers of The Face, French and Italian editions of Vogue, and Mademoiselle.
But music was Winer’s true passion and, at the turn of the ‘90s, she would unknowingly help invent the massively popular genre known today as trip-hop.
Today, Winer stays busy on new musical projects in the French countryside, where she has spent the past two decades raising her five daughters. A prolific writer, she has also published two collections of poetry and oversees the literary estate of Herbert Huncke, a defining member of the Beat Generation.
Winer’s influence might best be summed by the award-winning composer Max Richter, who offered the following thoughts to Wyndham Wallace for his extensive liner notes: “The world seems finally to be catching up to Leslie Winer, whose startling intelligence and singular vision shine through her copious recording life. A visionary commentator on the relationship between individuals and society in the mould of Blake or Woolf, Leslie Winer knows things that the culture at large just doesn’t understand yet, and she has never been afraid to let us know that.”
Today's tune "Skin" is taken from the latest release "When I Hit You — You’ll Feel It", enjoy!
Thursday, time for a cover.
"The Hunt" is a tune by British rock band NEW MODEL ARMY. It was released on the third studio album "The Ghost Ff Cain" in 1986, the album propelled the band to the forefront of the alternative rock scene in the 1980s. Not least thanks to the widely acclaimed underground hit song, "51st State", which is the only song by the band to date to feature lyrics not written by the band themselves; the lyrics were written by Ashley Cartwright of The Shakes.
It was the first album to feature new bassist, Jason 'Moose' Harris. It also features former Nine Below Zero member Mark Feltham as a guest musician on harmonica on songs "Poison Street" and "Ballad".
Brazilian thrash metal band SEPULTURA covered the song "The Hunt" on their 1993 album, "Chaos A.D.". Today's version is made by the Norwegian band WHITE VOID, led by Lars NEDLAND the keyboardist and vocalist of progressive metal bands BORNAGAR, SOLEFALD, and AGE OF SILENCE. He recruited Tobias SOLBAKK from IHSAHN on drums, Vegard KUMMEN on bass, and Elvin MARUM on guitars.
Today's tune "The Hunt" by WHITE VOID, here with a Video where they do a cover version of this classic NEW MODEL ARMY track featuring Greg Mackintosh from PARADISE LOST as guest on lead guitar. Enjoy!
The glam-gladiators FEVER DOG released thier new album "Alpha Waves", released November 5, 2021. FEVER DOG is a bunch of very young guys in their 20s, and still manage to produce some great rock from the past.
Founding members, Danny Graham (lead vocals, guitar and songwriter) and Joshua Adams (drums, vocals, general writing and production) have literally been rocking out together in one form or another since they met in their Apple Valley Elementary School.
Today's tune "Freewheelin’" is taken "Alpha Waves", enjoy!
LA-based rockers THE BRONX return for their sixth studio album "Bronx VI" which was released worldwide on Cooking Vinyl August 27th.
“The feelings I got when writing for this sixth record is the same type of feeling I got writing “Heart Attack American”. It all comes from the same place and it’s all still 100% genuine and real. Believe me – I’m still feeling the raw emotion that I felt when this band first started. That’s just who I am, that’s who we are as people. You can’t fake stuff like that when it comes to music or art. You have to stay connected. You’ve just got to be real” - Matt Caughthran, vocalist.
"Bronx VI" was produced by Joe Baressi (MELVINS, TOOL, BAD RELEGION).
The band have released a live video for their song "Breaking News". The live version was recorded by Tim Armstrong of RANCID. The song is off their album "Bronx VI". THE BRONX will be touring Europe and the UK in 2022 and will be touring the UK with EVERY TIME I DIE in winter 2022.
Australian red-dust desert rock outfit KITCHEN WITCH is Australia’s answer to both the California desert/stoner rock scene and Europe’s stoner/prog/psych circuit. With half the founding members hailing from the red centre of Alice Springs and the other half just a stone’s throw from the Flinders Ranges, this band is not just desert rock by name.
KITCHEN WITCH did released their second full length release, "Earth And Ether" on August 21, 2020. Where the path to the dark side continues with seven epic tracks showcasing their heavier rock, metal and blues roots, all wrapped up in a tasty groove. Go on, Have a Squiz!
"Earth And Ether" was recorded and mixed by Jimmy Balderstone at Ghostnote Studios in Adelaide, South Australia with the producer Jimmy Balderstone. Mastered by Tony Reed. Artwork and layout by Nic Ames
KITCHEN WITCH are:
Georgie Cosson – Vocals
Conor Kinsella – Guitars
Simon Elliott – Bass
John Russo – Drums, Percussion
Today's tune "Cave Of Mischief" is taken from the album "Earth And Ether", enjoy!
Monday, it's time for us to present "Record Of The Week".
A barren, dark, and cold period is at our doorstep, music is needed, something that reflects the present time in a bizarre world like this. "Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa" (“Land Lets the Night Grow Silent”), the latest musical piece from the Finnish experimental post-rock extravaganza HORTE, is a dark and mesmerizing journey that is best consumed in one sitting with headphones and closed eyes so you won't miss a thing. This is music that fits in right now during this period before the snow starts to fall, it's magical and sad at the same time. That we as humans adapt to life no matter what is going on, pandemic, weather, or other misery, is one of our strengths, and to get that strength is music.
HORTE's music is powerful in its simplicity, the withdrawn and slightly secretive approach creates a craving for you as a listener, you drawns closer and closer without getting HORTE on the skin.
They mix widely from a dreamy electronic soundscape with some cleaver nordic psychedelic inputs to some trippy far outs where the female vocals are sung in the native language "Finish" and in this case almost gets transformed to an instrument. Even if a partly understand some finish I do struggle with this. So here she is an instrument and it fits so great in this atmosphere. Their approach to making music is also quite unique – they go about collecting field recordings first and then try to arrange the music around these recordings instead of first writing the songs and then trying to find the fitting field recording. They then work with the songs for as long as necessary which implies that some of the tracks on "Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa" might have taken longer and are older than assumed.
From the manipulated and melancholy "Pelko Karistaa Järjen" ("Fear Sheds Reason"), dreamy and deep "Ilman Nurkka" ("Without Corner"), the beautiful and emotional piece "Kilpemme" ("We Are Shielding") to the minimalistic "Valoa On Liikaa" ("There Is Too Much Light") to some more eruptions and noisy feedback-orgy like songs as "Väisty Tieltä" ("Give Way"), "Kun Joki Haihtuu" ("When The River Evaporates") and thee album closes up with a cold echo prayer "Konttaa, Ne Konttaa II" ("Contain, Those Contain II"). HORTE really serve us an sonic reverie and dark and mesmerizing journey.
“If you stare long enough into the abyss, the abyss will also stare back into you”, Nietzsche found. It is this existential experience that is the brooding essence of "Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa". Every musical idea is based essentially on emotional dispositions, which unravel as the idea is sketched, developed, then thrust into the abyss... only to echo back and find bleak resonance within the very heart that initially gave birth to it. Listening to these echoes is deeply cathartic, and an integral part of the HORTE experience.
"Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa" was recorded by the band at their homes and at Tonehaven Studio in Lievestuore, Finland. As an outside observer, Juho Vanhanen (ORANSSI PAZUZU) worked with HORTE on the production. The album was mixed by Saku Tamminen (SINK, DARK BUDDHA RISING). The album was released on August 27, 2021 via Pelagic Records
Sum: A great album to play when the degres aree closing zero.
Today's tune "Väisty Tieltä" is taken from "Maa Antaa Yön Vaientaa", enjoy!
Born in a Dalston basement, "Quatermass Seven" by Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto could only have been produced in the colourful streets of sprawling London. Driven by the three contributing musicians’ 25-year plus journey through multiple genres and inspirations, what you hear within its seven tracks is the ‘60s British blues explosion colliding with a mid ‘70s Bronx block party; Haight Ashbury acid rock mashed up with Manchester’s summer of love circa ’88; or a prime slice of UK freakbeat broadcast from New York’s jazz underground, emerging kicking and screaming above London city tower blocks.
This meeting of minds between guitarist Barrie Cadogan, bassist Lewis Wharton and drummer Malcolm Catto represents a re-birth of sorts for Little Barrie, with these their first recordings since 2017’s critically received Death Express album, and the sad and untimely passing of friend and drummer Virgil Howe. Following a difficult period of soul searching for both Barrie and Lewis, they made the decision to record again: knowing they weren’t looking for a replacement for Virgil, or to replicate past glories, alleviated some of this inherent pressure. “I’ve never seen the point in making ‘Death Express’ or ‘Surf Hell’ again, and we said quite clearly to Malcolm that we wanted to do something different”, states Lewis. “I just saw it as me, Barrie and Malcolm running through some ideas – as the mixes evolved and shaped up, it made sense that it became the next Little Barrie record.”
What "Quatermass Seven" delivers is a darker, deeper and more expansive set of grooves, layered with frazzled and flawless guitar lines and flowing melodies, as well as pointing toward a future of exciting new musical opportunities. “Still here, so fine, just a little darker state of mind” sings Cadogan on ‘Steel Drum’: words which sum up hope in times of uncertainty, whilst (maybe) unintentionally offering a perfect description of the music contained herein.
Today's tune "Rest In Blue", taken from "Quatermass Seven", released October 16, 2020
Here's a video of Barrie, Lewis & Malcolm with a guest appearance from Shawn Lee, playing "Rest In Blue". Enjoy!
"Ultra" is the debut album by the American psychedelic rockers KADABRA.
The band hails from Spokane, Washington U.S., delivers the eerie psyche crawl of acts like DEAD MEADOW and the heavy fuzzed riff grime of BLACK SABBATH. In the fall of 2020, they tracked their debut album "Ultra" with Dawson Scholz, and it did see the light on September 17th via Heavy Psych Sounds.
In 2020, a year wracked with cultural dissent and a global pandemic, fellow musicians and long-time friends Garrett Zanol and Ian Nelson decided to create a band that would pull influence from a few of their favorite musical acts. After retaining the talents of their favorite local drummer Chase Howard, the group got to work on writing an album that illustrates their current climate.
KADABRA is:
Garrett Zanol (Vocals/Guitar)
Ian Nelson (Bass)
Chase Howard (Drums)
Today's tune "Settle Me" is the second single taken from the KADABRA debut album "Ultra". KADABRA comments the tune:
"Settle Me" is the last song we wrote for the album "Ultra". The song rides the steady swampy flow of psychedelia while racing into a heavy, fuzzed turbulence."
"Headsoup" is a new compilation that deepens the legend of mysterious Swedish psych collective GOAT even further. Collecting rarities from across band's celebrated career, including standalone singles, B-sides, digital edits and two enormous brand new tracks, it's a globetrotting acid trip of a record that's even bigger in its scope than their acclaimed studio LPs.
From the incendiary heavy psych of their earliest work, like debut B-side 'The Sun And Moon', to the serene 'Requiem'-era alternate take 'Union Of Mind And Soul', to the simmering menace of their latest material, it's a record as multifaceted as Goat themselves, packed with detours in every conceivable direction. Taking in jazz-flute solos, pounding Afrobeat rhythms, ferocious desert blues, drifting Ethio-jazz, this is, as the name of GOAT's first album made clear, 'World Music' in its most complete form, a sound unrestrained by genre boundaries. Yet the band are anything but lazy appropriators. They approach their forebears with upmost reverence, articulating a celebratory cultural cross-pollination. And what about these two new tracks? 'Fill My Mouth' is a scuzzy psychedelic funk knockout, the sleaziest thing the band have ever recorded. 'Queen Of The Underground', meanwhile, is truly herculean, a swaggering psychedelic powerhouse of the very highest order. Sometimes dark and heavy, at others joyous and beautiful, like Goat themselves 'Headsoup' is mysterious, and constantly shapeshifting, difficult to properly pin down but constantly enthralling. Almost a decade since they first emerged from the depths of Scandinavia, there is still no other band on earth that sounds quite like them.
Today's tune "Queen Of The Underground" is taken from "Headsoup", enjoy!
DIRTY PAGANS are a stoner doom metal band, formed in early 2016 in Adelaide, South Australia.
Conjuring up the face-melting sounds from the 1970s doom scene with vocals that reach the unholiest of altitudes, hypnotizing guitar riffs, heavy basslines and explosive drumbeats. They deliver a high energy performance with an electric groove so hot – Dirty Pagans are guaranteed to cause a nosebleed.
Today's tune "The Family" is the title track from the debut album, released January 17, 2021. Recorded at Against the Grain Studio. Enjoy!
"Wait Till Mornin" is single taken from the album "Necroscape" from Mike Patton (FAITH NO MORE, MR. BUNGLE) and the Australian electro-acoustic composer, Anthony Pateras, modernist electro-acoustic rock proposition Tētēma. Joined by violinist Erkki Veltheim and drummer WIll Guthrie in quartet formation.
Anthony Pateras describes the song as sounding “Peter Gunn on methampetamine with RD Burman as co-pilot, being pursued by Madlib through an early 80s London industrial estate. This was one of the first songs we wrote for the new album, and probably played a big part in convincing us doing another would be a good idea. It is the only song on the record with a drumless chorus; like a lot of our music, the drama is upside down."
"Necroscape" is the second album from the modernist electro-acoustic rock proposition, seeing the outfit continuing to employ the wayward orchestrations and arresting physicality of their 2014 debut "Geocidal" with a renewed melodic language which grounds its multi-colored twists and turns in hallucinatory lyricism.
Today's tune "Wait Till Mornin" is the second single from "Necroscape", released April 3, 2020, enjoy! Video directed by Sabina Maselli (http://sabinamaselli.com)
"I Was Dancing In The Lesbian BarI Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar", is a tune taken from the fourth solo album "I, Jonathan" by the American singer, songwriter and guitarist Jonathan Richman, released by the Rounder Records label in 1992.
As the founder of influential protopunk band THE MODERN LOVERS, Richman had strived to convey authentic emotions and storytelling with his music. "I, Jonathan" continued this aesthetic with simple and sparse rock and roll arrangements, and straightforward lyrics about mundane topics.
Songs on the album addressed topics such as backyard parties ("Parties in the U.S.A"), memories of neighborhoods in which Richman had lived ("Rooming House on Venice Beach" and "Twilight in Boston") and his admiration of his primary musical inspiration, the VELVET UNDERGROUND ("Velvet Underground"). The latter song includes a brief interlude of the VELVET UNDERGROUND song, "Sister Ray".
The album helped increase Richman's cultural profile, which would include a 1993 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien during which Richman performed one of the album's songs, "I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar".
Enjoy today's classic "I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar"
Monday, new week, time to introduce "Record Of The Week".
“Future Forecast” is the new album from the Melbourne Garage Punks CIVIC. Led by charismatic frontman Jim McCullough, the five-piece offer a high-octane adrenaline rush with an melodic sound that shakes you off. Think THE STOOGES mixed up with SOCIAL DISTORTION and you will get CIVIC.
Jim McCullough, Lewis Hodgson, Darcy Grigg, Roland Hlavka and David Forcier
"Future Forecast", really do not save on gunpowder, already from the opening riffs on "Radiant Eye" you taste and smell the smoke from the newly fired gun. A punker with that little extra is shown half way when a ripe of saxophone salvos hit the stage, marvelous! And hey, the battle aint over, full throttle forward we go in "Another Day". The power pop twinkle hook in the "As Seen On Tv" really gives the tune some extra flavor. Something similar can be heard on "Clone". The catchy punker "Just A Fix", guitar driven "Tell The Papers" have a great sing along chrous. Marvlous driving bass lick intro in "Sunday Best" that has a bit of a different approach where the native V****A BOYS comes in mind, I just love this one! The dirty and heavy "Shake Like Death" shows an more angry side of "Spit and Cutter". "Back To You" have a more classic punk feel and also offers a cool guitar solo. The classic feel continues in "Hollywood Nights In Hamburg". The album ends with wonderfully screaming guitars in the IGGY POP flavor "Come To Know". This is an brilliand Australian Garage Punk Rock and Roll that I hightly recomend to check up.
"Future Forecast" was released March 26, 2021, sadly no distro for EU/UK yet, but you can get it from Flightless Records, https://flightlessrecords.com/
Sum: "Future Forecast" is exactly the album you need right now to shake up some things that bother you!
Today's tune "Radiant Eye", taken from "Future Forecast", enjoy!
The Swedish rockers ROTTEN MIND will serv us with a tune "City Rats" for this friday. A band that combining elements of 70’s punk, post-punk and garage rock.
"City Rats" is taken from the bands fourth full length album "Rat City Dog Boy". As one of the four original bands affiliated with Lövely Records, ROTTEN MIND had released three studio albums; “I’m Alone Even With You” (2015), “Rotten Mind” (2017) and “Fading Into Oblivion” (2018), their style evolving from the early, fairly frantic, punk thrash of their debut through into more mainstream indie-rock, and it was this mix that ROTTEN MIND displayed when doing live performances in Australia, Germany, France, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, UK, USA, Spain and Czech Republic.
With “Rat City Dog Boy”, ROTTEN MIND return to their musical roots. There are a few new influences in there, to create an album that sounds mostly vintage 70’s punk that to me will appeal mostly both fresh and vintage, making the band more appealing to old-school punks than to broader indie-rock fans.
ROTTEN MIND are consisting of:
Jakob Arvidsson (guitar/ vocals),
Rune Strömbom (bass),
Johan Sverredal (guitar) and
Victor Nordin (drums)
ROTTEN MIND was formed in Uppsala, Sweden in 2015.
Today's tune "City Rats", taken from “Rat City Dog Boy”. Video was filmed and edited by Daniel Wiberg. Enjoy!
DEAD GHOSTS are a five-piece garage rock and/or roll band from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Rauchy lo-fi recording style, country esque vibes "sweet guitar pluck and jangle", driving
rhythms, and the occasional Back From The grave feel is the basic make up of their songs.
To get another idea of their sound, they've gotten comparisons to namely the bands THE BLACK LIPS
and KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW.
Today's tune "Cut Off My Hair" is a great new single from the them, looking forward to hear some more.
Enjoy!
Daniel Norgren is a Swedish songwriter from the tall woods of the north.
He’s working through the small indie label Superpuma Records and has been doing so since 2006. Earlier this year, January 15, 2021, to be more exact Daniel released his new live album "Live", where the recordings from that first & final tour of 2020 a.k.a "Fab Four Feb Tour".
New arrangements and full-band performances of songs from the past four Daniel Norgren releases ("Buck", "Alabursy", "The Green Stone" & "Wooh Dang").
Written and produced by Daniel Norgren
Recorded by Pelle Nyhage
Cover art by Petra Wester Norgren
Daniel Norgren - Guitar / Piano / Vocal
Erik Berntsson - Drums / Vocal
Anders Grahn - Bass / Piano / Vocal
Andreas Filipsson - Guitar / Piano / Pump organ / Vocal
Christian Norgren - Crew
Terry Groves - Crew
Special thanks to Bas Flesseman, Jake Xerxes Fussell, Amanda Acker, Mats ”Vintagemats” Larsson, Mikael E Andin, Ida Wester, Eva Jonson, Sven Börjesson, Bitte and Håkan
Today's tune "Everything You Know Melts Away Like Snow" is taken from the new "Live" album, originally released on his "Alabursy" album from 2015, enjoy!
That you got a taste of Kristina Esfandiari (WHIRR, KING WOMAN) other projects after yesterday's review is not entirely surprising, for it was so good and I just felt in love with her :) and needed to get more, I'mm sure you know that feeling.
MISERABLE is an a where we finds her at her most vulnerable and emotional. Oscillating between shoegaze and dream pop, her music dwells in a soft, meditative space that reverberates with thoughtfulness.
Today's tune "Damned To Love You" is a single released February 27, 2020. Kristina Esfandiari voice scales cresting waves of nostalgia, buoyed by plucked guitar arpeggios drenched in 60’s style spring reverb. Just wonderful, enjoy!
Monday, new week, time for us to present "Record Of The Week".
The Poughkeepsie, New Yorkers GENGHIS TRON make their return with their highly anticipated new album, "Dream Weapon". The band’s first new studio outing in over a decade, GENGHIS TRON's Hamilton Jordan and Michael Sochynsky are now joined by two new collaborators: vocalist Tony Wolski and SUMAC/BAPTISTS drummer Nick Yacyshyn. Together, the lineup perfects the unique mix of extreme rock and electronic music GENGHIS TRON has pioneered over their storied career. A melding of hypnotic rhythms and densely layered synth soundscapes, "Dream Weapon" was recorded and produced alongside long-time collaborator Kurt Ballou at God City Studio in Salem, Massachusetts, with additional production and engineering by Ben Chisolm (Chelsea Wolfe) and JJ Heath (RAIN CITY RECORDERS).
"Dream Weapon" is an interesting journey, and I must say that I really dig this a bit far out way to create music, where all the best pieces are put together in a marvelous mix. Lyrically and conceptually, "Dream Weapon" picks up where "Board Up The House" left off. With this album there are some new elements were introduced, the trance-like repetition that during the time gets very meditative and hypnotic, very loosely, an album-length meditation on that theme.
From the short instrumental introduction in the opener "Exit Perfect Mind" makes the way for the first electronic chapter "Pyrocene" and in here we get the first notice of the changes in the personnel of the band that I find very positive and suits this new step away from the metal genre. The title tune is more bombastic and chaotic with a hell of a drum performance witch overall is a marvelous tune. To cool things off a bit the band offers a two minutes interlude with "Desert Stairs" that is like the aftermath of the tornado that exhales and the follows up by the seven minutes "Alone In The Heart Of The Light" that serves us with an atmospheric and electronic color palette that paints up the vivid landscape of the day after tomorrow. "Ritual Circle" is the longest piece on the album with its ten minutes adventurous journey and feels like it continues the previous track and gives it a proper ending to be followed up by the progressive "Single Black Point" until it's time to wrap up the album with the closer "Great Mother", a big and powerful piece that shifts from beautiful passages into noisy walls of distorted guitars. The album is a very good one and I find this to be a very exciting and interesting piece of art and it also tells us that GENGHIS TRON has grown up and entered a more focused state. "Dream Weapon" was released on 26 March 2021, by Relapse.
Sum: "Dream Weapon" is a genre-defying innovation, highly recommended.
Today's tune is the title track from "Dream Weapon", enjoy!
