Drawing The Line

I spoke briefly last month about SoCal's Mothers Of Gut, and their album Unking. Ive been listening to another track off the album, 'Stalemate', and it more than lives up to that initial promise. There are elements of Neil Young's 'Man Needs A Maid' in the instrumentation surrounding the chorus, which is pretty ace in itself, but this is inherently psych rock, meandering woozily amidst spectral guitarwork, echoed mewlings, haunted strings and everything heavily reverbed throughout - its foreboding, drug addled, and vintage, and leaves an indelible shiver etched into your spine.

Unking is available now through Family Time Records - get it here.

Mothers Of Gut - Stalemate
Mothers Of Gut - Wizard Tree

Maternally Gutted By The Wizard Tree

Family Time Records threw me a line a week or so ago about Mothers Of Gut, a band who have been floating around Southern California on their own supply of high times since 2007. I dont know much about them other than this track, 'Wizard Tree', off the new album Unking, which has just been released on 12" vinyl. If the album, the band (essentially the brainchild of one Aaron Freeman)'s second album, is anything like this track, its gonna be an amazingly earthy psychedelic release. It woozes its way along in an echoing cryogenic chamber before breaking out into a vibrant forest, suddenly triumphant. The now-four-piece made it outta the West and to South By South West in March, and so that means they could be headed anywhere! Hopefully we will be hearing a lot more of these guys very very soon...

And as Im yet to hear the album proper, here is a great review of it...

Mothers Of Gut - Wizard Tree