Torpedo Torpedo – Arrows of Time

 

Torpedo Torpedo – Arrows of Time
Electric Fire Records – 2025
Rock, Stoner, Psych
Rated: ****

I’m off to Austria tomorrow. Hitting the slopes in some way too hip ski resort. Why do those places (almost) never have rock bars? Live venues for rock music? I would assume there would definitely be a market for this. Or a heavy rock festival in the snow? Snowboarding by day, rocking at night. I see opportunities! A man can dream! And dream I will as well when cruising on the new Arrows of Time album by Vienna, Austria trio Torpedo Torpedo. We mentioned their debut album The Kuiper Belt Mantras back in 2022 and now they’re back with the follow-up, which seems to be hazier and swirling like a nebula. Working its luminescent gravity to pull riffs into the cloud and charge the drums like an electric storm. A few tracks have some more doom tones, but for the most part it seems to glide perfectly through the heavy psychedelic universe and stoner galaxy. The three are experts in the slow building tracks, the languid groove and the mesmerizing gradual delights. The continuously building final track Solstice for instance, unhurried and only minutely getting wilder and electrifying. Finally coming to a grandiose close, without taking the logical explosive route, but by controlling the wildness and the ever expanding soundwaves. Torpedo Torpedo are back with another great release and just like golden record on board of Voyager, this album will continue to move through existence, until the end of time…

(Written by JK)

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