Month: January 2024

Artist: Carpet
Title: Collision
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Kapitän Platte
Distribution: D/AT: Cargo Records, Benelux: Sonic Rendezvous FR: Differ-Ant, CH: Irascible, IT: Goodfellas, USA: A Thousand Arms
Genre: Prog/ Stoner/ Art/ Psychedelic Rock
Release Date: 22/03/2024

Carpet is a band from Germany with huge influences by prog rock, psychedelic music, stoner rock and jazz. It’s like putting Motorpsycho, Jaga Jazzist, the Notwist and the Beatles in a studio to create new material together.

After their debut Elysian Pleasures in 2013, which was highly appreciated by listeners and the press (e.g. album of the month, eclipsed magazine), they widened their musical spectrum on the following two albums Secret Box (2017) and About Rooms and Elephants (2018) – all released on the Colour Haze Label Elektrohasch. 

The path to the new album began with a songwriting weekend in a tiny, remote cottage in the Italian Alps and continued in the band’s own studio and in the studio of their mixing engineer Maximilian Wörle in their hometown Augsburg.

With Collision, Carpet recorded a strong and powerful album: “Some songs and parts were created in one go, almost from the gut, and are bursting with energy. Others were worked out down to the last detail and developed into sophisticated song structures“, the band comments. It is certainly this perfectly dosed, precise mixture of a heavy rock attitude with sophisticated songwriting and finely balanced arrangements that in a way marks the band’s DNA. 

The first single to be released from this album – Dead Fingers – is a raw and grungy tune that catches the listener with its clear structure and riffs, which makes it easy to dive into the song. 

The second single Ghosts is a heavy, rolling rock song with a drum-driven beat that is extremely forward. It comes with beautiful harmonies and vocal melodies and a distinct guitar solo. 

Lost At Sea, the third single, is a pattern-based, rhythmically complex song that draws on elements of Radiohead-like minimal music. This makes it stand out on this album. The enchanting melody, which is introduced in the middle section, ends in a brilliant wall of sound. 

Carpet already played shows with the Hendrix stoners of Colour Haze, the prog prophets of Elder, the experimental indie rockers of The Notwist and the rhythmic post-rock geniuses of Maserati. In 2022 the band played an entire show with a string ensemble from the Augsburger Philharmoniker with specially written arrangements. Carpet also played at great festivals such as Krach am Bach, Modular, Keep it low, Burg Herzberg and the Belgian Prog Resisté – to name but a few. 

Tracklist
1. The Moonlight Rush   
2. Dead Fingers   
3. Ghosts  
4. P is for Parrot   
5. Passage  
6. Lost at Sea 
7. Cosmic Shape Shifter

Links
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/carpet.band
Bandcamp: https://carpet.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/carpet.band
Facebook: https://facebook.com/carpetband
Label: https://kapitaen-platte.de

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Artist: Chatte Royal
Title: Mick Torres Plays Too F***ing Loud
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: Kapitän Platte
Distribution: D/AT: Cargo Records, Benelux: Sonic Rendezvous FR: Differ-Ant, CH: Irascible, IT: Goodfellas, USA: A Thousand Arms
Genre: Post/ Math-Rock
Release Date: 08/03/2024

Kapitän Platte will release the debut album from Belgium based band Chatte Royal on March 8^th. The four-piece group has already released two EP’s in 2020 and 2022 and will present eight new songs on the first full-length, 

Diego Di Vito who is responsible for most of the songwriting on the album is also well known as the guitar player in cinematic-post-rock band We Stood Like Kings. 

Chatte Royal is like the music of a film whose image we would have removed. Obsessions that result in powerful riffs accompanied by an impactful rhythm. This quartet travels through music oscillating between atmospheric and aggressive math-rock and melodic post-rock with a punk attitude. 

In a completely uninhibited style and imbued with virtuosity and energy on stage. 

Tracklist
1. Bonjour                              
2. Victoria Wong Pt 2                        
3. Zio Nervoso
4. Sushi                  
5. Pou Mi                                
6. Interlude                           
7. Marty Mc Fly                   
8. La Trahiso

Links
Bandcamp: https://chatteroyal.bandcamp.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/chatteroyal
Facebook: https://facebook.com/chatteroyal
Label: https://kapitaen-platte.de

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Artist: Schubmodul
Title: Lost In Kelp Forest
Format: LP, Digital
Label: Tonzonen Records
Distribution: Soulfood Music/ Believe
Genre: Instrumental Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock
Release Date: 23/02/2024

After the self-released debut album Modul I (2022) album nr. 2 will be released almost exactly after two years on February 23rd, 2024 on Tonzonen Records.

Lost In Kelp Forest is a concept album that doesn’t take place in the vastness of space like its predecessor, but rather in an underwater world. The six mainly instrumental pieces are accompanied by narrator voices, which reveal a coherent fictional story on a dense atmospheric carpet of sound. The voices were professionally recorded by Alma Chomel from France and Shane Wilson from the USA.

As a foundation, the triumvirate, formed by a classic line-up of guitar, bass and drums, thunders a mix of space, stoner and progressive rock onto the stage, which is occasionally supplemented by synthesizers, sound and voice samples. Dreamy, atmospheric passages combined with colossal riffs will often lead to an epic melodic zenith of voluminous, warm sounds, over which gentle to fast guitar solos are released.

The compositions use a large modal palette and versatile harmonies that are intended to continually surprise the listener and at the same time follow a driving, natural and catchy rhythm. Lost In Kelp Forest has a very high level of attention to detail and should remain exciting even after repeated listening.

The band’s inspiration for this album was genre-typical greats like Elder, King Buffalo, more progressive bands like Dream Theaterand elements from Hans Zimmer‘s film music. The idea using a spoken word on top of the music was inspired by the albums Eyes Like The Sky and Murderer Of The Universe by King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard. Lost In Kelp Forest was recorded in August 2023 in the legendary Tonmeisterei in Oldenburg, Germany. The entire album was recorded in just six long days. The band was housed in the studio for the entire recording process, which created a unique atmosphere during the recording process. The first tracks (Emerald Maze and Silent Echoes) were written shortly after the release of the first album in spring 2022 and set the basic mood of the album. The remaining pieces were completed by summer 2023.

Tracklist
1. Voyage 
2. Emerald Maze
3. Renegade One
4. Silent Echoes
5. Ascension
6. Revelations

Links
Instagram: https://instagram.com/schubmodul
Facebook: https://facebook.com/Schubmodul
Bandcamp: https://schubmodul.bandcamp.com
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1u62KEB6O6vjuxKaNgYHoX?si=WGDmYz8hRO- uYSF5eBvfYw  
Label: https://www.tonzonen.de

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Artist: Dez Dare
Title: A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.
Format: LP, CD, Digital
Label: God Unknown Records
Genre: Garage/ Noise Punk
Release Date: 01/03/2024

Dez Dare ventures further into the void than ever before on his 4th album and the 1st to be released via God Unknown Records, A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.

On past records Dare has fought beasts and beats alike, waging a fuzz war and tackling the biggest topics the world has to face; Doom scrolling, capitalist demagogues, a passionate dislike of the beach in summer. On this record he leaves the sardonic frustration behind for sarcastic existentialism, zeroing in on the big philosophical questions, and the pedantic shards of nonsense that make up our existence.

Piling up the synths, noise boxes and guitar pedals, Dez set about building a soundscape of noise and ideas around the nature of reality, time, and how we interact with them. From the music you would play in your last moments, to the reverse Darwinism of modern society, to arguing with time itself, and very boring people talking at you, all is covered here for the aspiring existentialist. 

The self-produced Australian has spent over 3 decades producing music, releasing and touring bands, and doing live sound for z-grade metal bands. Growing up in the coastal town of Geelong (Djilang) in Australia, he was introduced to the DIY punk and rock scene at 15 and this community and the ideas rooted in the underground music scene have guided his output and ethics throughout his career.

This year Dez will be joining forces with label titans God Unknown (Cassels / Duke Garwood / James Johnston + Steve Gullick / KLÄMP / Oneida / Oneida / Laura Loriga / Monster Magnet / Wellwater Conspiracy [Soundgarden + Monster Magnet]) and will be producing a deluxe version of the release that will include a 12 page comic illustrated by long time collaborator Mike Keane.

Across the drone of noise and washed out guitars of the final track, A Billion Voices Screaming, Hello Void!, the chant repeats “We all return to where we begun…” which encapsulates the message that Dare delivers. We are all made from the same stardust and we all return to the universe that spat us out, we just need to enjoy the many shards of nonsense on that swift descent into the void.

Tracklist
1. Got a Fire In My Socket
2. Matter Vs Matter [explicit]
3. 10,000 Monkeys + An Argument With Time
4. No One Wants To Hear It
5. Gotta Cold Feeling
6. Entangled Entropy
7. Call My City, Don’t Call My Telephone
8. Josephine Says Explode
9. Schrödinger’s Apocalypse
10. The Elasticity Of Knowing
11. A Billion Voices Screaming, Hello Void! 

Links  
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dezdareriffs 
Facebook: https://facebook.com/dezdareriffs
Instagram: https://instagram.com/dezdareriffs
Bandcamp: https://dezdare.bandcamp.com
Label: https://godunknownrecords.com

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