Acid Rooster: Studio Discography 2019 - 2024

 

Acid Rooster is an Instrumental psychedelic/kraut/ space rock from Leipzig, Germany and their heir music is solid gold from start to finish. (...) Every time you think they’ve taken a break, given

you a bit of a breather, a slow track to let you regain your senses, you quickly realise that no, the drop in tempo is purely there so they can wind it up, and up, and up again, until we are once more in orbit.
Though Acid Rooster have flown their freak flag high for many moons, the band only released their impressive S/T debut very recently.
                    

And not to exaggerate — Acid Rooster is one of the best contemporary psych bands around, (...). Mainlining the spirit of Agitation Free, Neu! or any of the well known German psych and krautrock

pioneers, Acid Rooster’s partially-written and part-improv take on free-thinking psych is equal parts monolithic and hypnotic, executed with genuine conviction – it’s like being catapulted into orbit by wave after cosmic wave in a maelstrom of psychedelic flavors, whether it’s blistering guitar pyrotechnics or the downtempo check-ins with your consciousness. It’s Acid Rooster’s strength to relentlessly take you well beyond the astral planes.
                   

Acid Rooster from Leipzig blast off into space like a textbook sonic joyride straight out of Alan

Freeman’s The Crack in the Cosmic Egg. With a sound evoking the spirit of German kraut and psych rock pioneers, the instrumental tracks on their partially written and improvised albums often oscillate between slow-burning, spaced out jams and mind-bending climaxes that have earned them a stellar reputation for their captivating live shows.
                        

Demonstrating a striking level of instrumental tightness and intuitive improvisation, it is perhaps not

surprising to learn that the three childhood friends Sebastian Väth (guitar), Max Leicht (bass, synthesizer) and Steffen Schmidt (drums, percussion) share a long history of rehearsing and jamming in their native hometown in southern germany.
            

Praised by critics for the soaring cosmic drone-riffs and monolithic rhythm section on their self-titled

debut "Acid Rooster" (2019), the band soon got invited to a string of shows and appearances at renown festivals such as LeGuessWho and Fusion Festival. They shared the stage with bands such as Kikagaku Moyo, Acid Mothers Temple, Föllakzoid or Bitchin Bajas. Their second EP "Irrlichter" (2021) was followed by several tours through europe and the UK, the release of the live album "Ad Astra" (2022) and their brand new full lenght studio album "Flowers & and Dead Souls" (2023).
                 

With ‘Hall Of Mirrors’ Acid Rooster (2024) presents a work made up of four individual parts of

immersive and psychedelic music. Acid Rooster’s ever-evolving template is tapping into the same transcendental minimalism but delivered with a new-found urgency as they add additional layers to their intoxicating after-midnight grooves.
                    

The magic begins as the music unfolds, driven by the taut, propulsive rhythm whilst melodic bass lines

propel the music in a perpetual forward motion, guitars flicker and cascade from angular and razor-sharp to shimmering and forlorn, peppered by the ambient whirr of synths that oscillate subtly in the background throughout.
                

01. ACID ROOSTER - ACID ROOSTER 2019

                          

Excellent album. Very well done, psychedelic space-rock, without being over-indulgently proggy or solo driven. Liquid lead guitar solos, space rock synth, and groovy rhythm chart a course into

outerspace. The songs flow freely exploring drone, improvisation, psychedelic experimental rock, classic kraut rock and space rock. Acid Rooster is digging deep into the well of far-out psychedelic rock and has created their own dimension of this mind-expanding vibrational brew. The way the band comes together can only happen when people are listening and following their ear. The structured elements of the sound remove any sense of hesitancy or misdirection.
                         

Acid Rooster – Acid Rooster
Label: Sunhair Music – 0031
Format: Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Repress
Country: Germany
Released: Oct 11, 2019
Genre: Rock
Style: Acid Rock, Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                          

01. Oculatus Abyss    5:12
02. Moon Loop    11:16
03. Sulfur    6:30
04. Time Lapse    7:47
05. Focus    8:20
06. Äther    5:04

LINE - UP

             

Sebastian Väth / guitar
Max Leicht / bass, sitar, synthesizer, mellotron
Steffen Schmidt / drums, percussion

ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS

Jan Werner / 12-string guitar (2,6)
Bodo Hansen / synthesizer (3,5)
Christopher Kunz / tenor saxophone (3)
Patrick Schönfeld / throat singing (2)

Flac Size: 287 MB

02. ACID ROOSTER - FLOWERS AND DEAD SOULS 2022

               

The nights are drawing in and the stars shine ever bright in the autumnal skies, amidst the gathering gloom and pale light that catches leaves slowly making their way to the ground there is a sound … a big heavy psychedelic sound … this can only mean one thing: a new album from Germany’s Acid Rooster has dropped and is here to light our way through dark evenings. A warm synth

sound and chiming guitars introduce “Flowers And Dead Souls”. Its rolling rhythm courtesy of Steffen Schmidt on the drums means the track almost cruises into being like a giant craft entering the Earth’s atmosphere after a long trawl through hyperspace. Echoed guitar from Sebastian Vath calls out across the solar system, as if trying to send a message to its home world. Max Leicht’s bass and synthesizer flesh out the sound, helping it springboard beyond Kuiper Belt objects to the farthest reaches of our solar system. Another stunning release from Acid Rooster that takes you on an aural journey; not just outward in to the cosmic night, but inward to your own self realisation.
                   

Acid Rooster – Flowers & Dead Souls
Label: Tonzonen Records – TON158
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Aug 25, 2023
Country: Germany
Released: 2022
Genre: Rock
Style: Acid Rock, Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

             

01. Sounds Of Illusion    7:37
02. On The Run    6:15
03. Schattenspiel    8:46
04. Dead Bodies    5:07
05. Good Mourning    7:22
06. Heaven Scent    10:47

LINE - UP

                   

                
Sebastian Vath / guitar
Max Leicht / bass, sitar, synthesizer, Mellotron
Steffen Schmidt / drums & percussion

Flac Size: 302 MB

03. ACID ROOSTER - HALL OF MIRRORS 2024

                               

             
With ‘Hall Of Mirrors’ Acid Rooster presents a work made up of four individual parts of immersive and psychedelic music. “Hall Of Mirrors” contains just 4 tracks, equally divided into the 2 sides of the vinyl LP album and is based on a daemonic mutated lost Pink Floyd (from their mid-80s period) riff, shimmering wah-wah guitar sounds, some groovy basslines, and rather powerful drumming

under a huge krauty prism, creating a supersonic Space Rock sounding capable enough to launch the Spaceship into the… future!  Is spacey, futuristic, and deeply electronically flavored, covered by a huge Krauty monotone cloak, this is trippy Space Rock with dreamy and floating atmos and a mysterious kind-of Psych aura all over, but slowly and progressively the Spacey soundscape is filled with pure ACID while the Spaceship males a stop somewhere in the year 2525 before safely landing into its initial state (of mind)!
                           

Acid Rooster – Hall Of Mirrors
Label: Cardinal Fuzz – CFUL0318, Little Cloud Records – LC-117, Tonzonen Records – TON169
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: UK
Released: Oct 25, 2024
Genre: Rock
Style: Acid Rock, Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock, Space Rock

TRACKS

                      

01. Automat    5:50
02. Chandelier Arp    14:13
03. Confidence Of Ignorance    10:57
04. When Clouds Part (Guitar [Additional Guitar] – Jason Shaw)   8:49

LINE - UP

                    

Sebastian Väth / Electric Guitar [6 String Electric Guitars], Electric Guitar [12 String Electric], Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic Guitars]
Maximilian Leicht / Bass, Synthesizer, Organ, Flute, Saxophone, Sitar, Guitar, Harmonium, Percussion
Steffen Schmidt - Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone, Shruti Box 

Flac Size: 240 MB