Lionize - Space Pope and the Glass Machine

Have you ever wondered to wander, to gander up at the sky and see something so outlandish as a spaced out reggae band eeking out doom-cobbled southern licks that permeate the star system with love and groove. With rockin' organ licks backed by hefty bass and guitar this album could be played instrumentally with still quite a bit of punch but throw in that rogue harmonica and those deep-fried vocals and you've got a damn good smoothie with equal parts Hawkwind, Clutch and old school ska music. Pop this one in to your ship's sound system, light a spliff and kick back for one hell of a smoked out ride.

SPACE POPE IS GUNNA STEAL YOUR SOUL

US Christmas - Run Thick In The Night

Appalachia's space rock powerhouse is back with another beautiful album dripping with southern-tinged darkness. Like a rabid wolf letting out its last howl before laying down to rot; this album is like a intravenous injection of black ink. It'll leave you simultaneously suffocated and revitalized. Putting this on is a lot like walking the line between life and death; only here you can really hear or understand what lies just ahead. Turn it up LOUD. This release is meant to shake your rafters clean.

tl;dr: This album is the sonic equivalent to losing your only child.

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US Christmas - Salt The Wound

An older release by one of the coolest active Space Rock outfits today. A little more on the heavy side this time; this is a record not to be trifled with. Back handed riffs and an assault of epic drums, you know you're in for a ride.

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US Christmas - Eat The Low Dogs

This record is just so out there that it has to be experienced first hand. This brand of Space Rock combines equal divisions of Hawkwind, My Bloody Valentine, Minsk, Neurosis and Earth. I talked with some of the guys before they played and I was eager to hear what they had to offer. The barrage of guitars is backed by a forceful rhythm section, sweeping theramin, plodding bass lots of pedal worship. I picked up this CD after seeing them open up for Baroness and I have to say that I was blown away hearing this live. The 3 guitarist created a heavy oxygen-starved atmosphere, the yowling vocalist crooned from behind an elk-skull adorned mic stand while the bass kicked you in the teeth; the 2 drummers synchronized and often went on tangents of elegant accenting while the drummer from Minsk played hand drums and other assorted instruments and all while a screeching distorted violen squaked like a pterodactyl being ripped apart by alligators. Powerful as fuck. This psychedelic trip through the old west will lead you through powerful imagery of light, darkness, deserts and bleeding corpses. This must be heard to be believed.


US Christmas - Eat The Low Dogs

Tracklisting

1: In The Light Of All Time
2: The Scalphunters
3: Say Sister
4: Silent Tongue
5: The Light and Trails
6: Uktena
7: Gallows Humor
8: Black Lung
9: Pray To The Sky


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