VIDEO: d'Eon - Kill a Man With a Joystick In Your Hand

Hypnagogic Pop gets political in d'Eon's mash up of Afghan war viscera and Playstation death, liberally interspersed with a sprinkling of x-tube gyrating to lighten the mood - or ram home the message that we're all a bunch of sick, base, primitive voyuers. There's no better seven minute reference for the influences behind the name Meatbreak either so thanks for this d'Eon, I might be pointing people to this to illustrate my pseudonym in future. The music is as tripped out and slack jaw trance inducing as you'd espexct from Olde English Spelling Bee

DOWNLOAD: Forest Swords - Rattling Cage 7"

Liverpool's incredible Forest Swords released his new record, Rattling Cage yesterday through  No Pain In Pop. Available on 7" limited to 300 copies and mp3, NPIP have also put out both tracks to download via Gorilla Vs.Bear, reposted here.

Rattling Cage
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There's a video for the title track, which is suitably murky, tense and sinister. Filtered through chilling tones of Dario Argento and David Lynch, with a street-wise kick of Mario van Peebles, it is the perfect haunting accompaniment to the creeped out music of the Wirral resident - reconfiguring ghost-psych bands like The Shadow Ring through a shadowy hypnagogic prism of saturated delay, reverb and ethereal smoked out hip-hop memories. Imagine yourself swamped in soupy fog with ghostly martial drums clanging across the riverbanks - the rattling cage of the title referring to the opening baleful drum beat.  This is pretty mournful stuff, but it is also not a sound limited to just one sense of place or purpose.  There's elemts of dub(step) in the extra deep Shackleton-esque ambience and slowed beats, the aforementioned hypnagogy is there in those faded twilight hip-hop referencing beat rhythms. The previous Dagger Paths on Olde English Spelling Bee still gets a lot of listening at my place, and it's going to get a grand standing in my end of year lists for certain and this new release cements Forest Swords as one of my artists of the year.

 

Rangers - Ross Downs

This is taken from the new Rangers album Suburban Tours released on Olde English Spelling Bee.

I hate the picture that's on this but it's the best I could do and I need to put it up in some form or another. What a bounce!  Play it with your eyes closed - it's pretty much what you should do anyway. At the moment it is probably my favourite track from the album, although Deerfield and Bel Air are coming pretty close too. All very heavy hazy psych with some awesome screwy liquid mercury tones all over this record.