Stoner HiVe's Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Stoner HiVe's

Top 10 artists listened to last month...

Avon

Gypsy Sun Revival

Void Commander

Stoned Therapists

White Boy Wasted

An Evening With Knives

Kayleth

Porno Wolves

Mother Mars

Olmeg

Stoner HiVe's Top 5 artists listened to last week...

Stoner HiVe's

Top 5 artists listened to last week...

An Evening With Knives
Da Captain Trips
Avon
MaidaVale
Olmeg

After one completely packed week where we had little time to listen to the good stuff, we had some catching up to do. So, a lot of records got spun at least once. But the next five were on repeat the rest of the time. The debut effort Serrated by An Evening With Knives. We had to be able to sing along during the official album release party at the Area51 Skatepark last Friday. A great freakin night it was and an amazing album it is! Get your hands on Serrated and spin it loud! It has only been a few weeks that Ozium Records re-released Mad Marco, de debut effort by Avon. But Dave’s Dungeon, the sophomore release by the Alfredo Hernandez, James Childs and Charles Pasarell trio will be out on Heavy Psych Sounds in a few weeks. It is even better! On all fronts. What a ride! Another one on heavy rotation is Da Captain Trips. Their Adventures In The Upside Down came out a few months ago via Phonosphera. A majestic trip if ever there was one! Madness Is Too Pure released by The Sign Records is Swedish outfit MaidaVale’s second effort and is intensely atmospheric, with much more psychedelic and krautrock touches in respect to their first record. And well, it’s magnificent! Colorful melodies and crazy like glittering seventies gold! Remember Primoridal Soup by Olmeg? We loved their outsider approach to sludge, stoner, psych and space! Well, the cats are back with an eight-track record called Maladies. Which of course had to spun immediately! And so, should you! Perhaps grungier and a bit grimier, they still move outside the common realm. It crosses boundaries and defies frontiers. Yes, it’s Olmeg and they are radical and sick!

Olmeg – Primordial Soup

Olmeg – Primordial Soup

Self released – 2014

Rock, Stoner, Psych, Sludge

Rated: ****

Here we are again in that lovely town of Melbourne, Australia and are enjoying the elemental sounds of three brethren named Olmeg. And you can see them moving on the sidewalks over there. Reflected in the narrow shop window you notice their perhaps rather pale and heavy-eyed reflections. For it is not A groove they are looking for – they want all the groove, and will continue to seek around them and explore every avenue, one by one… Formed on a hot summer evening in 2011 these cats incorporate enough muddy sounds to make the psychedelic stoner compositions on their second album Primordial Soup turn sludgy whenever they slow down. And then opt to aim for the cosmos with supreme instrumental goodness. It never becomes too weird or freaky, but it is always out there, on the edge, where the recluses reside and where the original current of the Great Magnet flows steadfast. And these cats tapped into the mainline to produce something delicious. Yes. They see too deep and too much. They are outsiders. And this is a broth for Barbusse and all who understand his search…

(Written by JK)

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