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Riot Season present a vinyl issue of Blown Out's Sun Rot, originally released on cassette in 2014. Riot Season's label head on Blown Out: "July 2014 was my first encounter with Blown Out label wise. That's when sister label, Swap Meat Records put out the band's debut physical release Sun Rot as a limited run tape. That quickly sold out and two furthers runs were made and also sold out. Since then, we've released further four Blown Out releases on Riot Season. Drifting Way Out Between Suns (REPOSE 042LP, 2014), New Cruiser (REPOSE 053LP, 2016), Superior Venus (REPOSE 056LP, 2017), and In Search Of Highs Volume 1 (REPOSE 065LP, 2018). So what better thing to do next than go back to where it all began and release Sun Rot on wax at long last. Sun Rot was recorded to tape and was very lo-fi in nature. We've rescued the original tapes and have tweaked them for vinyl ever so slightly but it very much remains the lo-fi classic it once was." The artwork has been reimagined by the original cover artist and long-time Blown Out artwork collaborator, Anthony Downie. Limited one-off run -- Edition of 300.
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While you have been recovering from 2016's epic New Cruiser album (REPOSE 053LP), Newcastle's finest psychedelic space explorers Blown Out have been busy crafting away their follow-up effort, Superior Venus. Superior Venus once again consists of two long, head-expanding psych outs. You should know by now what Blown Out are all about. And once again it's completely fuckin' epic. Protector Of Kings, Ejected Comet, The Reversing Earth, The Opaque Dream, Superior Venus. "... the Sun rose contrary to his wont; twice he rose where he now sets, and twice he set where he now rises ..." Telepathic rhythms collide with high mind-stream waste guitar -- Heavy, melodic, destroying -- The whole universe in your brain -- Power trio power-drive psychedelic rock. Features members of Bong, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Khünnt, Haikai No Ku, Drunk In Hell, etc. Comes on limited neon orange vinyl; Housed in full-color sleeve with download code; Edition of 500.
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Newcastle Trio Blown Out continue on their voyage through deep fuckin' space with New Cruiser. Power-driven, psychedelic rock, New Cruiser is made of two huge tracks of blistering leads, mind-melting brain changes and max fuzz. Influenced tonally by "Peace In Mississippi"/"Crash Landing" third generation cassette culture and tight Grand Funk oblivion rhythm mind chemistry. Blown Out features members of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Khünnt, Bong and HaiKai No Ku. "New Cruiser" dives straight in with some deep, rolling bass, crashing drums and the trademark guitar from Mike Vest. The track rolls and pitches along its way, based, as ever, on repetition (the bass of John-Michael Hedley becomes positively hypnotic) while the guitar weaves heavy, reverb-drenched patterns in the sky. Blown Out have become masters of creating music that is heavy enough to affect the gravitational pull of nearby planets whilst still having the ability to mesmerize. 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 (2016). 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. Given all of the free-wheeling, freak-out 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 - tightness of form that allows a freedom of expression - sounds oxymoronic 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 neighbors. 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. RIYL: Psychedelic rock, spaced-out jams, Acid Mothers Temple, Bong, The Cosmic Dead, Les Rallizes Denudes, Earthless. Includes a download code. Edition of 400.
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Newcastle power-trio Blown Out issue their debut album Drifting Way Out Between Suns. Comprised of members of Bong, Drunk In Hell, Haikai No Ku, 11Paranoias, Khünnt and Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Drifting Way Out Between Suns offers up 40+ minutes of sonic bass lines, steady free-form tempos, and totally crushing, waster-infused, head-change guitar leads. The trio evoke the psychedelic jam music of San Francisco's glory days -- effects-laden guitar jamming that goes nowhere and everywhere, held down by a hypnotic groove that never misses a beat, no matter how long they play without pause. The blues-rock roots of the jamming makes for a calming experience, after the head-fuck you'll experience waiting for them. Also featured are sonically-heavy, rolling-thunder bass lines, shaped by total head-change, waster-infused guitar freak-outs, gelled together with steady freeform rhythms. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness. Limited edition of 400. Pressed on grape-colored vinyl. Vinyl-only release with download code.
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