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Psychic Lemon – ‘Live At The Smokehouse’ (Tonzonen)

Psychic Lemon – ‘Live At The Smokehouse’ (Tonzonen)

Posted by | Jun 6, 2019 | ,

Cambridge’s Psychic Lemon inhabit the sort of psychedelic, space rock previously explored and opened up by the likes of Amon Duul II, Goat and Hawkwind. As its title suggests, this, their third album, was recorded live at The Smokehouse, a bespoke venue in Ipswich known for being at the cutting edge of the East Anglian music scene. With five tracks spread across 42 minutes, it is effectively split into two halves, with the first three tracks being grouped together under the banner of ‘The Past’ – a fitting epithet as they are taken from the trio’s last album, ‘Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay. The remaining two tracks are newbies, presented under the banner of ‘The Future’.

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The Candy Snatchers – ‘Moronic Pleasures’ (Hound Gawd! Records)

The Candy Snatchers – ‘Moronic Pleasures’ (Hound Gawd! Records)

Posted by | Jun 5, 2019 | ,

Originally planned as the band’s second album, the recently unearthed ‘Moronic Pleasures’ is an example of musical archaeology at its finest. Originally recorded in two sessions, the original tapes have lain gathering dust for a little more than 20 years – although many of the songs ended up, in re-recorded versions, on what ultimately proved to be the band’s sophomore offering, ‘Human Zoo’. Two decades later, an old friend of the band, Jake Starr, set about tracking down the long-lost original sessions and subsequently getting the 19 songs remixed and remastered for modern consumption. It was no easy task, as there were bits missing, with a good old-fashioned cassette tape being used to fill in the gaps on ‘Ass Casserole’, for example.

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Skypilot – ‘The Affront’ (Self-Released)

Skypilot – ‘The Affront’ (Self-Released)

Posted by | Jun 5, 2019 | ,

Hailing from the otherwise quiet village of Doagh, nestled in the hills somewhere north of Belfast, Skypilot having been plying their brand of desert rock for some 16 or so years now and will be familiar to regular ÜR readers as they have featured in these pages several times. It is perhaps surprising to know that this is only their second album (although they have released four EPs as well over the years). What is not surprising, however, is that many of the tunes on here will be familiar to the band’s followers, as the likes of ‘M.O.A.S.T’, lead single ‘Superdupernaut’, ‘Nacho’ and ‘Letters To Jemima’ have been staples of their live set for some considerable time.

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Halls of Oblivion – ‘Endtime Poetry’ (Metalopolis)

Halls of Oblivion – ‘Endtime Poetry’ (Metalopolis)

Posted by | Jun 5, 2019 | ,

We should warn you there will be a lot of gushing in this review. All John Bedard knew before going into this album was that it was melodic death metal with some black metal influence. That, however, is just the surface, as our man discovered en route to declaring it “a masterpiece”… which means we better give it the coveted ÜR seal of approval then, hadn’t we?

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