Stoner Rock / Rock Revivalists (only quality artists)

I really like it. Check it out on iTunes. I was surprised after Googling Valis to discover it's got a member (or members) of Screaming Trees in it. I think it's better than Screaming Trees by far. It's got some pretty typical stoner tracks, but there's some more upbeat psychedelia in there, too. And some catchy bridge/chorus tricks that sound great and really catchy, somehow managing to sound totally original within a pretty standard rock format. I'm so used to rock not really being "catchy" anymore that it's a surprise to hear a band pull it off without sounding like Nirvana or something else you've heard a million times.

Check it out on iTunes, it's pretty cool. Probably a lot smarter than the cover leads on, too. I haven't really listened to the lyrics, but it sounds very mature (but not boring).

Not sure if you really would call Oceansize stoner rock per say but I love that album and might be the only one.

Hey, it's okay. As long as you REALLY LIKE what you're posting about. That's all that matters. You know, sometimes people talk about pretty lame bands they don't really care too much about only because they are tenuously related to the topic at hand. Know what I mean? Like there'll be a Kyuss-related bands thread and it only has 5 posts. And then the subject of Kyuss is pretty much dead unless you want to revive that lame thread.

Hey guys, I've never heard of those bands. You don't want to talk about 'em at all?

(I just listed those first few bands to give you an idea of the kind of stuff I was talking about. I didn't mean for it to be a "list band here" type thread. 'Course if you want to do that, that's cool.).

Santa Cruz’s Comets On Fire is just phenomenal, or the stuff I have heard is, as is what you are looking for, definitely check them out.

Kyuss/QOTSA/Unida/Hermano/Che/Desert Sessions/Brant Bjork (and any other Kyuss spin-off + Stoner Rock in general) Search & Destroy , Classic Or Dud?
Kyuss/Stoner Rock

and they have more than 5 posts on them. and they get revived a lot.

Stoner Rock Compilation - Suggestions

Not really, I don't have much to say about them at this point. I'm looking for new stuff.

Black Halos
Turbonegro
Gluecifer
Hellacopters
High On Fire
Goatsnake
Electric Wizard
Kyuss
Unida
Hermano
QOTSA
Monster Magnet
Valis
Tad
Screaming Trees
Melvins"

you are stoned, admit it.

It was an introduction to the thread.

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Oceansize - 'Effloresce' (Beggars Banquet)

Oh thank ye Lord up yonder for this here assaulting, melancholy, beautiful, ugly, heaving, subtle, contagious, engrossing, confusing, melodic, pained, restrained mass of searing UK rock-metal…

So categorising Oceansize was never a deed worth undertaking. And, after the release of their debut-album, it seems even further a prospect not bothering to attempt. But, testament to the teaching that definition doesn’t equate to explanation, Manchester’s dynamic, surging quintet aren’t one to try and pin down – merely one to encounter. And treasure, if you can.

For ‘Effloresce’, you see, is the album of your dreams, and nightmares. An engaging, always riveting (and seldom easy) mass of torrential hooks and surreally haunting soundscapes of bold, and occasional minimalist, capacity. It’s the grossest contradiction you’ve ever heard – a record that moves and touches for its all-out audacity and immense capability, but segregates the listener from the performers through its own sheer spookiness… Look closely to each members’ foreheads; you just may see the words ‘brooding’ and ‘evil’ tattooed there, a voodoo-doll poking out each of their back-pockets…

Yet, in spite of the compulsive darkness, all 75 minutes are a true journey to submerge within, an hour and a quarter to switch off amidst and forget all you know, ready to learn again, straight from scratch: a musical-epilogue both masterfully intriguing and wonderful (the Ancient Egyptian chimes and pyramidal mystique of ‘Massive Bereavement’ or ‘One Day All This Could Be Yours’), or hugely rollicking in their monstrous, obstinate intensity (the only slightly catchy moments – ‘Catalyst’, and dramatic, hairs-on-end close of ‘Saturday Morning Breakfast Show’).

Elsewhere, it’s even more complex – a series of mysteriously navigated, stark instrumentals – namely, the opening strains of ‘I Am The Morning’, and mid-LP introspection-point, ‘Rinsed’ – or sombre, downward-glancing, slouch-a-longs, guitars used as spherical, strings-a-likes (‘You Wish’; the choir-backed ‘Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs’; the harmonies-ridden ‘Remember Where You Are’) and vocalist Mike Vennart consistently belting out a guiding high/screech timbre untainted enough to compete with the surging mass of racket that constitutes the collective experience. Eventually, the ordeal finishes – climaxing dreamily in the mid-pace ‘Long Forgotten’, senses alert, heart afloat, expectations shattered.

And whether or not the masses pick up now or later, Oceansize have crafted with their first full-length record an unadulterated, ear-ringing classic, as compelling as it proves natural, and frightful as it shines through embracing. Once you’ve fallen in, you’re unlikely to return. At last – enlightenment, in all its unrelenting g(l)ory.

Toby L - Written on 18/01/2004

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OCEANSIZE BACK WITH NEW SINGLE, ALBUM AND TOUR

OCEANSIZE are back with a new single, album and tour.

The Manchester space-rock outfit return with ‘Everyone Into Position’, the follow-up to 2003’s Shortlist-nominated ‘Effloresce’ on September 19, released through Beggars Banquet.

The album was produced by Dan Austin and mixed by Danton Supple, whose last project was Coldplay’s ‘X&Y’.

It is preceded by a single, ‘Heaven Alive’, on August 15.

The album tracklisting is:

* ’The Charm Offensive’
* ’Heaven Alive’
* ’A Homage To A Shame’
* ’Meredith’
* ’Music For A Nurse’
* ’New Pin’
* ’No Tomorrow’
* ’Mine Host’
* ’You Can’t Keep A Bad Man Down’
* ’Ornament’ / ‘The Last Wrongs’

Meanwhile, Oceansize play the following dates throughout August and September:

* London Barfly (August 15)
* York Fibbers (16)
* Glasgow Barfly (17)
* Liverpool Barfly (18)
* Cardiff Barfly (19)
* Devon Beautiful Days Festival (20)
* Brighton Concorde (24)
* London Clapham Common Get Loaded Festival (28)
* Stoke Sugarmill (16)
* Manchester Academy 3 (17)
* Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire (18)
* Newcastle Cluny (19)
* Birmingham Academy 2 (21)
* Nottingham Rock City (22)
* Leeds Cockpit (23)
* Oxford Zodiac (24)
* Bristol Fleece (26)
* Southampton Joiners (27)
* Brighton Ocean Rooms (28)
* London Islington Academy (29)
* Hull University (30)

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