Someone Laced The Horseshit!

It truly is the week whereby bands bring out albums Ive been hanging out for for a while, just for expectations to be blasted away. Not that you can ever be sure what Psychedelic Horseshit will throw at you. The Ohio band (now a two-piece) have always been a shambles, embracing their crap nature, even coining their own genre as "shitgaze". So the fact that new LP Laced has them changing tack, and even offering an album that has a slightly more clear focus and production, is both a shock and par for the course.

But dont be dismayed - the common PH levels are here. Song structures are evident yet melted to a viscous liquid form that is both reptilian and svelte to the touch; Matt Horseshit's languorous vocals are here so lethargic as to be slurred through a vat of cryogenic goo. Its the electronic bent that might through some, but the synth skewers served up here actually heighten the band's modus operandi. Psychedelic Horseshit are still a mess, its just that they now have endeavoured to make this a more coherent mess, of which I am truly grateful.


Laced is out now on Fat Cat Records.

Psychedelic Horseshit - French Countryside
Psychedelic Horseshit - Laced

Eat Skull - More than just the coolest part of The Lost Boys

Siltbreeze has steadily built itself up into one of the most exciting labels on the planet. With acts such as Times New Viking, Sic Alps and Naked On The Vague on its roster (also Guided By Voices ?!?), expect to hear a hell of a lot more of what they have to offer...like right now!

Eat Skull have been dishing out a scuzzy as fuck noise pop formula for a few years now, alongside fellow Portlanders and Siltbreeze stablemates Psychedelic Horseshit (although PH take the cake in shambolic - don't worry, we'll post in due haste), and have inadvertantly found themselves on a wave of popular music...and yet somehow left behind in the slipstream. Crystal Antlers, Wavves, No Age and their ilk are gaining monumental popularity/notoriety. However Eat Skull deserve just as much of the accolades - even though they probably dont give two shits either way.

1st album Sick To Death really got things rolling, showcasing a band that could grab all of their favourite musical genres and put it through a shiny meat grinder to produce grisly slabs of murky gold (that sounds absolute rubbish, but listen to 'Beach Brains' followed by 'New Confinement' and you'll be swayed). 2009's follow up Wild and Inside was still awesome +, but didnt have the immediacy of its predecessor, despite the incessance of the organ on pop-tart of death opener 'Stick To The Formula'. You can definitely hear bands like the Clean in there - just not as clean. But still cleaner than before - even if less clean is cleaner...

Fuck, let me put it this way - Eat Skull are great. Really really great. Their abominations of pop, punk, garage rock, art rock, and scuzzy no-wave somehow add up to priceless soundbites that can be embraced wholeheartedly - and you will embrace them. They are criminally underrated. Chase down their albums, become devotees, and...eat some skulls...

Eat Skull - Beach Brains

Eat Skull - New Confinement

Eat Skull - Stick To The Formula