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LIMITED EDITION 500 ONLY SPACE BLACK VINYL LP HOUSED IN FULL PRINTED 350GSM SPINED OUTER SLEEVE WITH BLACK INNER BAG. THE FIRST FIFTY COPIES CAME WITH A FREE PROMO CD-R OF THE ALBUM
LP Tracklisting
A. 'New Cruiser' (15:38)
B. 'Phase ll' (16:12)
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ORDER VIA THE WEBSHOP OR BANDCAMP SITE (IF STILL AVAILABLE) This is what 'psychedelic' music is all about....not flowers and sugar cubes and paeans to long lost pastoral idylls, but music that can transport you'
Newcastle Trio continue on
their voyage through deep fuckin' space. Powerdrive
psychedelic rock. Two huge tracks of blistering leads,
mind melting brain changes and max fuzz. Influenced
heavily tonally al la Peace On The Mississippi/Crash
Landing 3rd generation cassette culture, tight Grand Funk
oblivion rhythm mind chemistry. Play High and Loud.
Recommended for fans of
Psychedelic rock, spaced out jams, Acid Mothers Temple,
Bong, The Cosmic Dead, Les Rallizes Denudes, Earthless etc
Features members of Pigs Pigs
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Khünnt, Bong, HaiKai No Ku
REVIEWS
When you look at the pedigree
of the musicians involved in Blown Out, with members of
Bong, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Haikai No Ku and
11 Paranoias, it’s no wonder that together they create
such an unearthly racket as they do on New Cruiser.
Welcome to the new album from Mike Vest and co and prepare
to have your entire body shaken to the core. There may be
no songs where we’re going, but there sure is a heavy
load of psych coming your way.
And that’s how Blown Out
work. Not for them the mundanity of having actual songs.
They prefer to see where their explorations take them and
like the Cosmic Dead on steroids, they take no prisoners
in their aural assault. You can either turn away or you
can succumb to the wonders within, it’s your
choice…the blue pill or the red one?
From a critics point of view
(and it is fucking difficult to find some solid ground
here), you are faced with a two part entity with no
beginning and no end, but a whole lot of middle. How you
describe that is completely in the ear of the beholder and
you may want to don some headphones for this whole
experience.
Maybe experience is the
precise word we are looking for. Amongst all the loudness
and drone is a rather clever execution of how to make
space rock in the 21st century. Almost as if the music
becomes a living entity, it grips you and forces you
inside its swirling mass before it spits you out the other
side. There are no familiar tropes here, this is just pure
out there madness, which never once lets go over the
course of half an hour. They say Reign In Blood is the
most intense half hour you can spend, this must come
close. You’ll hardly listen to it on the school run
anyway.
It’s bloody great though.
The swirling mass of noise resets your inner brain and
takes you on a trip before making you feel completely
cleansed. Almost like some satanic version of whale music,
this one works in the opposite manner yet still achieves
the same result. One can only imagine what the new age
traveller may makes of it if you swap their tape of
ambient cretaceous beings with what can only be described
as possibly some type of psychedelic Cthulhu who wraps its
tendrils around your brain and gives them a good shake
before leaving you to try and work out just what the hell
you have listened to. You thought Gnod had it wrapped up
for confusing the hell out of you? Blown Out take it to
another level. Great stuff.
ECHOES AND DUST
New Cruiser is the latest slab
of deep space psychedelia from Blown Out, the instrumental
power trio led by Bong guitarist Mike Vest. There are u
lot of bands around doing this kind of heavy/cosmic
amplifier worship but nobody does it better than these
guys. Channelling the sludgy groove of Peace In
Mississippi era Hendrix. the incandescent soloing of Loop
and the murky relentlessness of early Hawkwind. Blown Out
create a maximal hyper- saturated sound that suggests an
unfolding vastness.
The title track orbits around
a funky, slow motion bass-Iine illuminated by an
ever-expanding halo of starburst guitars plotting a
trajectory that drags the listener along in it's
gravitational wake. 'Phase ll' features an urgent, busier
bass-line and guitars that are less 'blissed out' and more
'pissed off'- it feels like being sucked back towards some
tumultuous event at the beginning of time, the track
ending with the tortured death pangs of a new universe.
SHINDIG MAGAZINE
Not content with having Dodge
Meteor as one of his bands, Mike Vest – quite possibly
the UK’s equivalent to Ty Segall hits us up with an
album by one of his other outfits, Blown Out.
Vest likes to invest in all
things noise infected. This album ‘ New Cruiser’
consists of just two tracks and is more akin to vinyl as
you can simply flip from one side to the other making it
much more suitable to a black skatey or in fact a coloured
record release.
Track 1 is the album’s title
as well. It has a theme to it through its 15 odd minutes:
driving guitars, impenetrable drums and a criminally good
love of psych and post rock. It never deviates from
that course and whilst you might be quick to add that it
lacks conviction due to its constant use of repetition,
you would be very wrong indeed because the syrupy licks
and rumbustious power chords soar at a level that only the
clouds can reach. At around 10 minutes in the guitar takes
a turn to the darker side, they brood and stand over you
like a pending apocalypse might do, drenched in reverb and
when the drums step up their game it becomes a battle of
wits that neither side really wants to win but instead
merely succeeding in upping the anti.
So what about the flip side
‘Phase II’, well it continues the dark theme that
haplessly runs through its predecessor and is just one
elongated jam of maelstrom proportions with its
firecracker like delivery. But with just over five
minutes left of the ‘Phase II’ the band take their
foot off the pedals and let a drone of squall and fried
synth become the central focus before a Cosy Powell like
drum solo rises like the bastard son of drum extravagance
before packing a punch that even the late great Joe Lewis
would be afraid to match up against.
Ripped to the hilt with
cathartic lines of blackness, Blown Out have effectively
created a game of two halves. Two halves that smash
your ears to within an inch of needing to acquire a
hearing aid.
SOUNDBLAB
The album comprises of just the 2 tracks; 'New Cruiser' and 'Phase II', both of which exceed the quarter of an hour mark. 'New Cruiser' dives straight in with some deep, rolling bass, crashing drums and the trademark guitar from Vest. The track rolls and pitches along its way, based, as ever, on repetition (the bass of Hedley becomes positively hypnotic) while the guitar weaves heavy, reverb-drenched patterns in the sky. Blown Out have become masters of this - music that is heavy enough to affect the gravitational pull of nearby planets whilst still having the ability to mesmerise....the music that has you nodding whilst staring into the distance. This is what 'psychedelic' music is all about....not flowers and sugarcubes and paeans to long lost pastoral idylls, but music that can transport you. In Blown Out's case, that means a one way ticket to the far reaches of known space...with a huge shit-eating grin on yer face. If 'Phase II' may sound a tad familiar to some, that's because it is a reworked, longer version of the same on 'Celestial Sphere' (on a purely personal note, I'm glad that some of that album will make it on to vinyl). It continues pretty much where 'New Cruiser' left off...blistering, fuzzy wah-wah, jackhammer drums and undulating bass all coming together to create an Heironymous Bosch like vision of hell....Vest's guitar positively wails at times like some poor tormented denizen of the underworld. Like 'New Cruiser' it is the repetition that holds the power...for all of the freewheeling, freakout guitar, it has a structure and a form to which the rhythm section sticks rigidly. This is the less-than-secret ingredient in the Blown Out recipe..the tightness of form that allows a freedom of expression....sounds oxymoronic I know but without the drums/bass creating a framework the guitar of Vest would sound chaotic and functionless, but instead it sounds free but purposeful. In all, 'New Cruiser' is another unqualified success...guaranteed to scramble the brains and scare the neighbours...what's not to love. Stunning!
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