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The Insekt Life Cycle - Schizodelia

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For the first 80 Fruits de Mer fans who purchased the May 2016 singles, FdM threw in a CDEP by The Insektlife Cycle from the Philippines. The CDEP Schizoldelia contains two versions of...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2016-08-20)

Byl Zamechen... - Stalo Yeshcho Tol'ko Khuzhe (It Got Even Worse)

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The warning label on the package says “lo-fi noise” and “stoner” — I swear somewhere there was a sticker that said “sludge” or something like that....

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2016-08-19)

Arti e Mestieri - Tilt - Immagini per un Orecchio

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McLatchey's Second Tier

I was about to write that there aren't too many debuts as powerful as this title by Italians Arti e Mesteri but then I realized I had just written...

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(Posted by Mike McLatchey 2016-08-18)

Persona Non Grata - System of Logic

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Persona Non Grata is an innovative Hungarian band that appears to have merged punk and progressive rock, very similar to how the Voodoo Glow Skulls have combined punk, school band instruments, and...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2016-08-18)

Manna / Mirage - Blue Dogs

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Blue Dogs is essentially a Dave Newhouse band project borne out of some of his own compositions originally intended for a Muffins album, but not so well embraced by other band members,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2016-08-17)

The Fruits de Mer Records Guide to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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I was never an Eagles fan. They were too mainstream for my tastes. So I had no idea that the BBC used their one excursion into space rock, “Journey of the Sorcerer,” as the theme music...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2016-08-16)

Wang Wen - Eight Horses

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By now it seems kind of pointless to argue that there is no such genre as “post-rock.” There are way too many bands around the world with too many similarities to not be a thing. Maybe...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2016-08-15)

Focus and Friends - Focus 8.5 / Beyond the Horizon

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It was in August 1997 that we learned about the reunion of Focus, with original members Thijs van Leer and Hans Cleuver, and bassist Bert Ruiter who played with them from Focus 3 onward,...

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(Posted by Peter Thelen 2016-08-14)

Soft Hearted Scientists - Golden Omens

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Those psychedelic gnomes from Cardiff are at it again, this time feverishly working in their lab to concoct a double dose of their signature pop-psych music. Golden Omens is an alchemical...

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(Posted by Henry Schneider 2016-08-13)

Yurt - III - Moluskkepokk

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Yurt is an Irish rock band that specializes in dark textures, mostly instrumental, with lengthy tracks of crushing riffs just slightly too clean to qualify as sludge. When singing is present, the...

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(Posted by Jon Davis 2016-08-12)
 

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