It’s the day before election day here in the US and I’m burned out. After all the vitriol I’m just trying to send the message–well, mainly to myself, but to anyone who is open to it–that love is all around, goddammit! New releases from Robot God, Sonic Delays, Nolla, Masal, Khana Bierbood, The Belle Epoch, Pallbearer Industry, and Electric Eye.
| time | artist | title |
|---|---|---|
| 0:39 | Robot God | Blind Serpent |
| 14:10 | Sonic Delays | Lottery |
| 18:32 | Nolla | Vieras |
| 25:38 | Masal | Dokuz |
| 32:00 | คณะ เบียร์บูด/Khana Bierbood | Fi Rak Senae-ha |
| 36:50 | The Belle Epoch | Hollywood If She Could |
| 39:34 | Pallbearer Industry | Delayed Anarchy |
| 45:20 | Electric Eye | Mycelium |
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Recently Laughing Squid featured Joan Jett’s performance of “Love Is All Around” on David Letterman back in the 1990s and I thought about a couple of other cool covers of that song, by Husker Du and Sammy Davis, Jr., and the memories that song evokes–first watching the Mary Tyler Moore show and then living in Minneapolis for many years. And then there’s the cloud of the election hanging over us and the dark forces it is unleashing and I just wanted to put all of that together with some great current psychedelia.
This episode features great music from around the world, starting off with two Australian bands: Robot God from Sydney and Sonic Delays from Perth. In this episode is a track from the Thai band Khana Bierbood, who are on Guruguru Brain. Moving on to Europe, I played a Nolla track on my last episode but since they released two albums at once, Avaruusmieli and Graniittisutra, and I played a track from Avaruusmieli in the last episode, I’m playing a track from Graniittisutraso in this episode. Both of the Nolla albums are on Riot Season and Echodelick. the London band Masal is on Up In Her Room, and Electric Eye from Bergen, Norway, is on Fuzz Club. From North America are The Bell Epoch from Austin, Texas, and Pallbearer Industry from Ottawa, Ontario. Pallbearer Industry is on We Here and Now!
#DesertRock #Doom #HeavyPsych #Heavy #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock #SpaceRock #StonerRock
Robot God are a Psych Space Stoner Rock band from Sydney Australia who offer a powerful blend of space rock, traditional stoner and psychedelia. Fans of Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Earthless, The Atomic Bitchwax and Elder would not be disappointed.
Matt Allen – Bass,Vocals & Synth
Raff Iacurto – Guitar, Vocals & Synth
Tim Pritchard – Drums & Synth
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Subconscious Awakening?
Robot God: Well, with the title, although we are all high functioning members of society with day jobs and kids etc. we also discuss things of an esoteric nature. Science fiction becoming reality, conspiracy theories that perhaps are not just theories. The existence of aliens, and Pondering the ways of the universe. Sometimes using natures medicine to help explore the subconscious / “Portal within” so it’s fair to say, all of the experiences / conversations above have shaped our music in some way.
TMODM: Are you going on tour?
Robot God: We would love to tour. It’s being discussed within the band currently, but of course it’s not so simple, and quite expensive with visas etc. we absolutely hope to be able to pull it off at some point, sooner rather than later.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Robot God: We have a whole new album of material that we are jamming in, and starting to introduce to our live set. The question is, record again, or tour…….. right now we are enjoying all the love we have been receiving for the current releases.
#Alternative #DreamPop #Noise #PsychedelicRock #Shoegaze #SpaceRock
Sonic Delays are from Perth, Australia. Tim Howells: Vocals/Guitar, Aimee Howells: Vocals/Bass. Formed in UK, 2008. Four singles of the week in Losing Today magazine. Supported Asobi Seksu. UK national radio airplay of ‘Are We Here?’ single on the Tom Robinson show on BBC 6Music. Released ‘Everest’ EP in 2009. Single ‘Colours’ released in 2011. Returned in 2021 with single ‘Coast’ followed by ‘Zoomer’ EP (2022) and ‘Overflow’ LP (2023).
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Clouds?
Sonic Delays: A couple of the newer songs like ‘Lottery’ and ‘Awake’ have returned to a more traditional shoegaze, alternative rock sound using a live drummer particularly influenced by the new slowdive album ‘Everything Is Alive’. I saw a a fantastic YouTube video of them performing on KEXP and thought using live drums may be a good idea for my new songs. For the drums on ‘Lottery’ I wanted something you might hear on an early Peter Gabriel track without too much cymbals or hi-hat, very tom-tom based drums.
The other half of the EP follows on from some of the more electronic elements we have used in the past. ‘Think I’m Ready’ was influenced by some early Graham Coxon (guitarist from Blur) solo stuff mixed in with a heavy distorted drum ‘n’ bass breakbeat in the middle section, just to take it somewhere else from the mellow beginning of the song. Space and Time is also quite a laid back song with electronic beats and is influenced by bands like Low.
TMODM: Are you planning on touring at all?
Sonic Delays: No plans on touring, we haven’t performed live since 2010 and restarted as a studio project in 2021 after a 10 year gap. If the demand is there for us to perform live again then we will do it but not until the demand is there.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Sonic Delays: Currently working on the follow up to last years ‘Overflow’ album. There will hopefully be new material out next year.
#AcidRock #Drone #KrautJazz #Krautrock #Motorik #Post-rock #Psychedelic #SpaceRock #SpaceRock
Spacerock from Finland. Nolla are based in Hämeenlinna, Finland.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Avaruusmieli?
Nolla: Same as always, playing together & seeing where the music takes us. I feel we are only transmitters, vessels for the music.
TMODM: Why release two albums at once?
Nolla: The original plan was to release a 2lp, but as we are virtually an unknown band and doing vinyl releases is a risky business, it was financially safer to release two separate albums. I do hope people buy both of them, as they are “sisters”!
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Nolla: Maybe a few days off now…but then, more music!
#Electronica #Ambient #Electronica #ElectronicaAmbientExperimental #Harp #Instrumental #Noise #Shoegaze #Theremin
Masal is a collaboration between Al Johnson and Ozlem Simsek. Ozlem is a Turkish multi instrumentalist whose middle eastern background is entwined with her western studies in classical music. Al performs psychedelic electronic music as Alien. As Masal they weave harp, Theremin and electronics into a beautiful aural journeys. Based in London.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on The Galloping Cat?
Masal: While making this album, I almost completely shut myself off from outside influence – I listened to very little else especially new music to avoid being pulled around creatively. So for me the greatest influence was OZ and trying to build layers around her playing.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Masal: MBV – Isn’t Anything. There are so many I try and pick a different one every time I get asked that question
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Masal: We are working on a couple of projects atm. But a new album is gestating and starting to take shape.
#Surf #Beach #Chill #Psychedelic
คณะ เบียร์บูด/Khana Bierbood (translated as Strange Brew in Thai), formed in 2012, in Bangsaen Beach in Thailand. After hours of jamming together they started create their unique sound influenced by 60’s surf music, 70’s garage rock with Thai traditional music.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Monolam?
คณะ เบียร์บูด/Khana Bierbood: The strongest influence for making ‘Monolam’ came from different sources in music, melodies and rhythms we kinda familiar with Luk Thung, Molam, and even though 60s-70s psychedelic music from all over the world and for lyrical we capture from many different stories that surround us. make it easy and written in simplicity language but still hidden with wit.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
คณะ เบียร์บูด/Khana Bierbood: Record that changed our lives, I think is our first album ‘Strangers from the Far East’
TMODM: What’s next for you?
คณะ เบียร์บูด/Khana Bierbood: we gonna hit the studio for next album and hopefully we could tour the US
#Alternative #Alternative #Noise #PsychedelicRock #Shoegaze
Music & Lyrics by Aaron Andreu
Produced by Aaron Andreu, Christian Bland, David Galvan
Vocals, Guitar, Bass Aaron Andreu
Guitar Solo Christian Bland
Drums Keith Harrison Cooper
Synth David Galvan
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on your music?
Aaron: Art, Travel, My Friends
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Aaron: I remember as a child listening to A Hard Days Night album over and over. That’s when the bug bit me. I started writing little rhymes and a few years later taught myself guitar. My first “real guitar” was a Jetglo Rickenbacker 360 in my late teens.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Aaron: Next Single “Death of the DJ” end of this year.
#Experimental #Dark #Doom #Experimental #Improvisation #Psych
3-piece psych/stoner/drone/doom from the Ottawa Valley, Ontario Canada.
Pat Farrell – Guitars – Vocals – FX
Leigh Newton – Bass – Keyboards – Vocals
Jeff Dowdall – Drums – Percussion – Synth
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on your music?
Pallbearer Industry: Strongest influences would be all the bands and artists that we admire and listen to. The three of us have a vast and wide taste of different styles and genres that we are into. The stuff we come up with is, I guess, a melting pot of that. With so much great underground music coming out daily almost it’s hard to keep up !
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Pallbearer Industry: I think I can speak for all of us this. The three of us went to high school together, some 30 some years ago. Have been good friends since. We were in another band together back then. One album/tape that seemed to get spun would have to be Pink Floyd’s Umma Gumma and Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I think that, at least for me, is where the Psych leanings may have started.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Pallbearer Industry: we recently had our 4th official studio album mastered and hopefully it will see light of day in 2025.
#Experimental #Krautrock #Prog #PsychedelicRock #SpaceRock
True norwegian hypnotic space-rock, kosmische garage-blues, dystopian acid-prog and experimental electronics.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Dyp Tid?
Electric Eye: Originally commissioned by Sildajazz 2022 – the Haugesund International Jazz Festival – and premiered there in Skåre Kirke, an octagonal wooden church in Haugesund, Norway built in 1858., Dyp Tid is both a meditative journey and an exploration of what it means to exist in a universe where time stretches far beyond humanity’s grasp.
We began this project with a sense that we needed to detach ourselves from everything we knew, from anything comfortable. So we delved deeper. Our 2021 album Horizons – recorded in a lighthouse off the coast of Norway – was “inspired by volcano eruptions, sub-sea adventures and the raw power of the surrounding sea”. A natural continuation was to take it all one step further and create a frame of concept or an image structure we could work within centered around the concept of deep time, creation and the first rays of light after. We let ourselves get lost in abstract themes, discovering sounds that evoke mountain ranges rising, continents drifting, and light breaking through darkness for the first time.
These six atmospheric compositions centre church organs, synths and coral vocals, gradually winding through ambient minimalism, kosmische improvisations and experimental psych-jazz. We have always been drawn to the cinematic, to the sense that something feels larger than life, and in Dyp Tid we weave these elements together into something both deeply personal and human and utterly elusive.
TMODM: Are you going on tour?
Electric Eye: Yes, we are playing some dates in Scandinavia this winter and are working on adding more EU dates later on next year. Hope to see some old friends around!!
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Electric Eye: First of all, the next drop from our upcoming album will be released October 17th. Then the album Dyp Tid will be out November 15th. We can’t wait to get the music out and are really excited to hear what people think of it. We are real proud of the album, so these are exciting times for sure!
We are also working on more music on a steady basis, so our plan is to keep on keeping on, keep putting out albums and to continue the exploration of everything weird and exciting.