The Glimmer Blinkken - Bernard Ruix Wedding Album

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This heavy, hard hitting piece of psychedelic nuggetry is best described as “stonerdelic” in the most classic, lo-fi sense of the word. This free rock sextet from Dubuque, Iowa featuring the folk weirdo Bobb Bucko Jr among the members takes a joyous, circus-like and a rather tongue-in-cheek ride through the history of psychedelic rock, setting shorter, more anthemic pieces against Sunburned Hand of the Man style weirdness and krautrock jams. Delicious homegrown lysergic bliss from the American midwest. Available on cassette from Ruix Records.

Hookworms - Hookworms

Now that the Leed’s psychonauts glowing debut “Pearl Mystic” is out it’s high (heh) time to get acquainted with their debut self-titled EP, released back in ‘11 on cassette by Sun Ark Records, now it’s available from Faux Discx on heavyweight 180 gram vinyl, so you can listen to the fuzzy echoing ride through infectious riffs in the full audiophiliac glory. These are the kinds of worms you’d like to get. Highly recommended!

Peace Arrow - ↑↓↑↓

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Remember Hear Hums from a while ago? Fuck you, you don’t. Shame on you! There’s a fresh new project by Gainesville resident Mitch Myers, who made the sound as delicate as the fresh spring growth. This time the vocals are added to the carefully arranged and meticulously composed pieces, creating a floating, ornamental tapestry of sound that engulfs and transports you. Do I sound fucking stoned? Highly recommended.

Sun Araw Band - Two From the Desert: Yucca Valley 2012

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Cameron Stallones’ Sun Araw has been pumping ultra-lazy/hazy psychedelic dubby blues since 2007 and with every album he tries to reform his sound without losing the gently flowing tropical aura. “Two From the Desert” is a documentary of two concerts that took place in the sunburned flats of the Yucca Valley in October 2012 as the Sun Araw Band, with two additional members enhancing the vision in the scorching sun. Impressive, trippy and lengthy live performance recorded with great quality. Available for just 3 dollars. Recommended!

Niechęć - Śmierć w miękkim futerku

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Niechęć (Polish for “dislike” or “aversion”) is like one of those idealized old-school mafiosos: they’ve come to beat the fuck out of you, or even execute you, but they are wearing tailored suits, have perfect hair and have arrived in an elegant land yacht - so you find comfort in your inevitable fate and submit to it, knowing that there is no way of stopping them. Highly skilled, semi-improvised jazz fusion music that is ready to punch you in the face while retaining a master-level skills of their musical instruments. Dynamic yet controlled, furious yet stylish. After all, they didn’t name their album “Death in soft fur” for no reason. Highly recommended.

Joonatan Elokuu - The Tower & The Hanged Man

Amsterdam, Netherlands based bard Joonatan Elokuu conjures magic with his bucolic string ballads with a certain penchant for Christian choral music and bits of Gregorian choirs. It’s delicate as a flower on the cover, touching psychedelia gently, coloring up the song collection hidden within. Too hear his more abstract, ambient-oriented work, check out “Earth, Sky, Moon & Sun” ready to swallow you whole, Brian Eno style.

Apollo Vermouth / Skamp - A Simple Sadness

Sometimes the simplest things are the deepest and the most effective of all. A Simple Sadness, a split between Milwaukee units Apollo Vermouth and Skamp. The first one does a heavenly, minimalistic wall guitar drone while the latter play deconstructed punk with a neurotic math rock edge. It’s fiuckin messy and lo-fi as shit, as it’s supposed to be. As Apollo V. reminds us on their 15 minute monoliuth epic: DON’T BE SAD!

TVNOISE - IIOII B

Chilled as fuck, lazily flowing psychedelic Germanik autobahn musik, picking up a frenetic pace on the course of the near 14 minute krautrock journey “I N T O / We Are the Jungle”. Gently flowing between guitar-susatined ambient atmospherics and plodding sludge rock into a rainforest like foggy heat haze. The album cover is a warning. But don’t be afraid to swim in deep water. Highly recommended!

Done - Territories

Chris Cubbison, describes the music of his solo Done project under extremely laconic terms: “drone usa”. But despite this lack of specific information, “Territories” isn’t as flat and monotonous as you might expect from a bedroom artist putting his music on the net for free. Actually, there’ s a lot of work involved: there are ofen vocals, sometimes distant and moaned, otherwise sung or at least intoned to some ghostly melody. There are some percussive sounds, some rhythm and of course some drone - sometimes it’s soft and silky, existing in the background, sometimes it grows to become harsh and unpleasant like that of Ajilvsga.  Doomy slowcore meets guitar noise. Worth checking out.

Упал В Муку - Monday Night Fever

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If you listen to this album more than three times in a row, chances are you will turn into the man from the cover: a wise, soul-travelling shaman with a large beard, slightly deranged, but enlightened. Like the bastard child of sound collage makers and Flying Lotus. Insane plunderphonic IDM excursions from the Russian wilderness.