Posts Tagged ‘Fuzz’

Listen: ‘Desolation’s Wake’ by Restless Spirit

Posted: 9 April 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Restless Spirit present the final advance single, ‘Desolation’s Wake’, taken from their forthcoming self-titled album. Restless Spirit is chalked up for release on May 8, 2026.

In further news, Restless Spirit have announced a massive co-headling US-tour with GOZU to take place in May & June this year.

Restless Spirit comment: “We’re beyond excited to take the new songs on the road after working so hard to create what we feel is our best album to date”, vocalist and guitarist Paul Aloisio states. “We’re already curating a setlist that will cater to fans of all eras of the band, both old and new. By joining forces with Gozu there will be an abundance of heaviness each night and that we know for a fact!”

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Restless Spirit comment on the new single: “With ‘Desolation’s Wake’ we present the fastest song of our new record”, Paul Aloisio writes on behalf of the band. “This track is pure energy and fury, and it comes with one of my favorite choruses that we’ve ever written. Interestingly, ‘Desolation’s Wake’ was pretty difficult to nail despite it being one of our simpler tracks – at least, we thought it was that! Everyone will be able to hear it live on the upcoming US tour that we’re co-headlining with Gozu.”

With their self-titled full-length, Restless Spirit have reached a point in their career where the band of friends from Long Island, New York knows exactly who they are and where they stand. As the eight tracks on Restless Spirit are the most distilled version of what the trio is about, they saw no need for further explanation in the title.

So, what are Restless Spirit about? Pure metal, no more, no less. Born from the steel mills of Birmingham this musical style has deep English working class roots that the East Coast outfit translates into an American sonic slang with elements from desert and stoner metal and even the occasional progressive flourish. As a result, they seamlessly merge classic heavy solos with roaring guitars and a pinch of psychedelic fuzz.

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RESTLESS SPIRIT live US 2026 with GOZU
24 MAY 2026 Providence (US) Alchemy
26 MAY 2026 Rochester (US) Photo City
27 MAY 2026 Erie (US) Centennial Hall
29 MAY 2026 Lansing (US) The Green Door
30 MAY 2026 Chicago (US) Reggies Music Joint
31 MAY 2026 Minneapolis (US) 7th St Entry
02 JUN 2026 Kansas City (US) The Record Bar
03 JUN 2026 Denver (US) HQ
05 JUN 2026 Boise (US) The Shredder
06 JUN 2026 Seattle (US) The Funhouse
07 JUN 2026 Portland (US) High Water Mark
09 JUN 2026 Sacramento (US) Cafe Colonial
11 JUN 2026 Los Angeles (US) Knucklehead
16 JUN 2026 Austin (US) The Lost Well
17 JUN 2026 New Orleans (US) Siberia
18 JUN 2026 Nashville (US) Eastside Bowl
19 JUN 2026 Atlanta (US) Bogg’s Social & Supply
20 JUN 2026 West Columbia (US) New Brookland Tavern
21 JUN 2026 Raleigh (US) Chapel of Bones
23 JUN 2026 Richmond (US) The Camel
24 JUN 2026 Baltimore (US) Metro Gallery
25 JUN 2026 Brooklyn (US) Gold Sounds
26 JUN 2026 Philadelphia (US) Nikki Lopez
27 JUN 2026 Cambridge (US) Middle East Upstairs

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Watch: ‘The Fastest Ride’ by Electric Jaguar Baby

Posted: 22 January 2026 in Recommended Streams and Videos, Singles and EPs
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Parisian fuzz fanatics Electric Jaguar Baby kick off 2026 with the release of a brand-new live video for their latest single ‘The Fastest Ride’.

For this track, Electric Jaguar Baby lean hard into the desert rock side of their sound, transforming the Paris hood into a dust-blown Rancho de La Luna fever dream. Razor-sharp riffs, a frenzied, chant-ready chorus and a psychedelic breakdown turn ‘The Fastest Ride’ into one of the album’s defining moments, all played as if tearing down the highway in a beat-up ’65 Chevy.

The live version was captured by Cockpit Prod as part of their session series, and perfectly bottles the raw power, sweat and unfiltered energy that Electric Jaguar Baby are known for.

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“The Fastest Ride” is taken from Clair-Obscur, the duo’s wildest, heaviest and most electrifying album to date, released on September last year via Majestic Mountain Records (Kal-El, Saint Karloff).

Formed in 2015, the duo comprised of Franck (drums/vocals) and Antoine (guitar/vocals), have spent the last decade distilling garage, stoner, punk, psych, pop and grunge into pure fuzz-fueled chaos. Known for their explosive live shows and no-rules approach, they’ve shared stages with everyone from Sepultura to Death Valley Girls.

Now, Clair-Obscur marks their third full-length and most fearless outing yet. Recorded live and drenched in distortion, the album rips through 11 unfiltered tracks of raw sonic adrenaline, with killer guest appearances from Lo (ex-Loading Data) and Chris Babalis Jr. (Acid Mammoth).

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Chlorine – Loser Herds

Posted: 9 November 2018 in Albums
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Panurus Productions – 19th November 2018

The title connotes very little that’s immediately apparent. A mass of zombies in The Walking Dead? The blank faces milling around in Asda on a Saturday afternoon? More than anything, I’m inclined towards abstraction, which is precisely what dominates this unusual assemblage. It’s pithed as ‘an 8 track dreamlike journey through electronics, looped field recordings and sampled textures’. It’s a fair summary, although it fails to convey the subtlety and nuance that define Loser Herds, which explores some highly detailed sonic canvases and probes the corners of those spaces.

“This is a test. 1, 2, 3, 4, Error.” It’s a striking start. The voice is close to the mic, and it’s a dry sound, somehow amateur-sounding… It’s at odds with the soft interweaving chimes that slowly rise up in the mix and gradually form supple rhythms that ebb and flow organically. The tracks segue together, shimmering with delicate, subtle ripples cascading multifaceted sonic tapestries. The higher frequencies shine opalescent refractions of light, spinning radiant atmospheres. Welcome to the world of Chlorine, the musical vehicle of northeastern visual artist and musician, Graeme Hopper. Citing Susumu Yokota or Tim Hecker as reference points, Loser Herds is an immersive, layered collection of compositions – although it’s perhaps more accurate to describe it as a single piece in eight parts.

The album takes a strange and ugly turn halfway through, when following the soft glissandos of ‘A Westerly Wind’ and ‘Buskers Night’, a screed of gnarly electronic grinding more reminiscent of Merzbow or Whitehouse clanks in under the guide of ‘Spotify Are Bunch Of Fucking Criminals Who Need To Be Crushed’. It might not be speaker-shredding torture, but it’s likely to be pretty unpalatable to most, especially those seeking the comfort of semi-ambient sonic drifts, the likes of which occupy the rest of the album’s space.

In combining samples with electronics, acoustic instruments feature quite prominently at times, although not always in the most conventional ways. Bewildering and intersecting time signatures paired with warping notes abound on ‘The Distant Breach’, before the epic finale, ‘Forever is Not Long Enough’ draws together all of the aspects of the album to create an immense sound collage that begins gently, but builds incrementally with burrs of distortion and increasing density. Cracking, fizzing overload, woozy cyclical grooves and grating, churning extraneous noise congeal behind an obfuscating gauze of soft-focus fuzziness. It concludes an immersive experience with greater immersion, rounding of a wonderfully wide-ranging work.

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Listen: ‘Black Moon’ by Blacklab

Posted: 3 June 2018 in Recommended Streams and Videos
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Following recent albums from Grave Lines and Limb, London label New Heavy Sounds have signed self described ‘dark witch, doom duo’ BlackLab who hail from Osaka Japan. They will release ’Under the Strawberry Moon 2.0′ on 20th July. Ahead of that, they’re streaming ‘Black Moon’ as a taster of their ‘fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, doom, stoner, more fuzz’ sound. It packs some heavy trudge riffery. You can get your lugs round it here:

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