The gestalt rock and roll mutation that is Wireheads returns with their continued evolution of sonic mystery on their new album, Potentially Venus.
Since forming in Adelaide, South Australia 2013 Wireheads have established themselves as one of the most prolific indie-rock groups to arise from the Antipodes in recent times. Over six albums the band have created a genre melting mash of rock and roll, post punk, country and psychedelia, all bound together with melodic hooks and classic song writing.
After twice traveling to the USA to work with K Records owner and Beat Happening founder, Calvin Johnson (Big Issues 2015 & Lightning Ears 2017), Potentially Venus was recorded in Castlemaine, Australia at the all analogue Sound Recordings Studios. The self produced album picks up where the band left off, continuing to expand on their sonic palette and resulting in the most refined, inspired and profound Wireheads work to date.
Announcing the debut LP from Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network – “Ballet of Apes”. Tip-top of our osmosis list is the first quiver of tunes from Brigid Dawson and her newly minted Mothers Network: wise warnings dyed in dark hues, knotted and hard-won torch songs from the edge of a turbulent sea, bittersweet balladry spun in defense against evils familiar and unknown.
Lovely though it may seem from a distance, the striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig.
“Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls – in Australia with Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring), in San Francisco with Mike Donovan (ex Sic Alps), Shayde Sartin (ex Fresh & Onlys/lifetime ringer) and Mike Shoun (ex Oh Sees/Peacers), and in Brooklyn with instrumental heavy-weights Sunwatchers – and the results are spellbinding. At the focal point of this maelstrom, our lady, as if illumed by candlelight, intones, pleads, consoles – white magic perhaps but it carries with it the anodized tang of blood. This is thrillingly potent stuff and it’s out on Castle Face May 22 .
The wizard’s gaze cast over a distant landscape bits of ash and motes of incinerated earth float in the air the smell of ozone and fried metal sting the villager’s noses. But hope’s bell rings eternal! A flower of beauty is standing up in the sole ray of sun the clouds are withering away, retreating back to dark cloaks behind crusted-over frost-fractal windows. Darkness cannot usurp the crown light is king and will eliminate the darkness, chase it, out of the unfathomable corners and brush away the webs of evil…remnant factions will always remain but they will be hunted with pure magical riffage. These are the peaks and valleys of the mighty Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band, conceptual in feel and flow a lovely lilting ride and then, up through the floor boards, a warrior incants into the frothing night a huge band, heavy and tumultuous like a war machine rumbling thru the ash clearing the way for folks to continue their idyll. Dreamy and lucid keys, strings, drum corps, slippery guitar and buff bass, ripe flutes and breezy vocals. For fans of Embryo, the Mothers, Pink Floyd, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Moody Blues, the Stark Reality, and Placebo. They’re from Austin, Texas but you’d swear it’s from 1972 Europa-Mothership. Like their vodka it surpasses expectations and fucking crushes.
– John Dwyer, Oh Sees
If the Silvan elves of Mirkwood had a house band, Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band would hold residence. Too cerebral for trolls and perhaps too dynamic for hobbits, the Nightmare Band is what you’d stumble upon around a fire deep in the forest, with a dozen or so of its creatures and elves equipped with everything from organs, bells, and flutes to electric guitars and synthesizers.
Like any conceptually ambitious creative project, the inception and launch of Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band is one built on tenacity, timing, and kismet. Finding almost ten people in Austin, TX who want to be part of a large-scale prog-rock/jazz fusion project evoking the spirit of Middle Earth? Easy. Finding those same talented people who simultaneously have the time it takes to do it justice? Not so much.
It’s the fortunate cohesion of these resources and the group’s enrapturing live performances that led to the overwhelmingly anticipated and well-received release of their debut LP Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band’s Nightmare Forever, out on John Dwyer’s Castle Records. Honing a sound nostalgic for several eras among several realms, the group features Nolan Potter himself on flute, vocals, and guitar; William Grover on guitar; Max Prudhomme on Bass; Reno Feldkamp on piano and organ; Doran Rawlinson on drums; Everett Bergstedt on percussion; and Charles Anderson on violin.
– The Austin Chronicle “From labyrinthine compositions to galvanizing live performances, Nolan Potter’s NightmareBand never falls short of epic.”
– The 405 “Making use of an eclectic assembly of instruments — double drumsets, flutes, strings, keys and ripping guitars — Nolan Potter’s Nightmare Band makes for a wild listen.”
Remember how a certain T. Segall has been dropping some coarse post-punk nuggets, with a heaping helping of Mikal Cronin squalling on the sax? Seems like perhaps those choice moments might have found some incubation in Segall’s collaboration and production of Lars Finberg’s new LP (on IN THE RED). The first solo outing from Finberg comes late into a career as a noise-pop and garage go-to – holding down time in The Intelligence, A-Frames, Wounded Lion and Thee Oh Sees. However, he seems perfectly at home with his name above the marquee and hunkered down with his cadre of collaborators. The LP isn’t wholly absent from the space that The Intelligence has occupied, but Moon Over Bakersfield certainly hits its own marks, spreading roots into alien punk and acerbic post-punk with equal zeal. Finberg feels like he’s sinking into a comfortable relationship with discomfort here, doing his best to unseat pop’s stranglehold on indie as often as possible. The record revels in acid-washed sax, dissociated vocal effects and claustrophobic atmospheres, but it also locks down a serious addiction to groove. Finberg rides the bass like a guiding light, peddling rhythm grunged by a heaping helping of distortion as a daily fix. He’s peeling back the skin on his past and letting the sulfur burn away at the tissues of 2017 in a way that’s as addicting as it is unsettling. If you’ve only met Finberg tangentially prior, it’s time to hit him head on.
Pearl Earl is a neo-psychedelic quartet founded by frontwoman Ariel Hartley (guitar/vocals) and drummer Bailey K Chapman in Denton, TX. The band is now located in Los Angeles.
With heavy nods to spacey prog rock and golden era glam rock, Pearl Earl has the ability to invoke the cosmic nostalgia of the past while carving new territory of its own neo-psychedelic universe. Once described as “Pink Floyd in the sunlight” the band’s live performances are captivating and euphoric with an ominous grin.
Their music is edgy, and has a broad range of flavors that go along with trippy psychedelic melodies and even heavy doomy riffs at times.
The band has done several tours in the US and shared the stage with such bands as Oh Sees, Post Animal, The Black Angels, Acid Dad, Frankie and The Witch Fingers, Black Lips, Allah-las and played major festivals such as Levitation and SXSW.
Pearl Earl is releasing their second album, “It’s Dread” via Green Witch Records (NYC) in June 2023 and are available for touring USA in June July, August. Europe/UK in September 2023.
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Announcing the debut LP from Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network – “Ballet of Apes”. Tip-top of our osmosis list is the first quiver of tunes from Brigid Dawson and her newly minted Mothers Network: wise warnings dyed in dark hues, knotted and hard-won torch songs from the edge of a turbulent sea, bittersweet balladry spun in defense against evils familiar and unknown.
Pearl Earl is a neo-psychedelic quartet founded by frontwoman Ariel Hartley (guitar/vocals) and drummer Bailey K Chapman in Denton, TX. The band is now located in Los Angeles.