Turtle Skull are from Sydney, Australia. Their music blends elements of psych pop and fuzzy stoner
doom, to create their unique self-described ‘flower-doom’ sound. Driving drum beats and bass grooves plow through a dense mist of monolithic guitars, pulsing dronescapes and ethereal vocals. The turtle skull show is a dynamic ebb and flow of sludgy riffs to unrelenting kraut jams that is both immersive, and at times, meditative.
Since forming in 2017, they’ve honed an experiential blend of warm melodies and ethereal vocal
harmonies over cell-bursting riffs, motorik beats, and warbling drone. Their last album, Monoliths, debuted locally at #1 on the AIR 100% Independent Albums chart, and reached #4 on the Doom Charts, a highly-regarded monthly curation of the best international heavy releases, and garnered attention from local and international music media, including NME.
They’ve since sold out headline shows in Sydney and Melbourne, played festivals including Camp A
Low Hum (New Zealand), The Gumball (NSW), Vivid (NSW) and Ninchfest (VIC), and supported leading international and local acts such as Frankie and the Witch Fingers (USA), Earthless (USA), and Stonefield. The band is currently putting the finishing touches on their third studio album, with 2 singles released so far Heavy As Hell, and Apathy.
these Aussies have concocted a surprisingly bright yet extremely open-ended affair that encompasses a
psychedelic journey with a foundation of bone-rattling stoner riffs, thunderous percussion, harmonious indie rock vocals, and flourishes of new-age instrumentation. Its ambitious and open-ended purpose is, in their words, to “accompany your journey, in any form you choose” in an Aboriginal meditation on “the intimate connection we share with the Earth.”
TURTLE SKULL - TURTLE SKULL EP 2018
Turtle Skull – Turtle Skull
Label: Art As Catharsis Records – TSLP01
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Stereo
Country: Australia
Released: May 17, 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock
TRACKS
Label: Art As Catharsis Records – TSLP01
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Stereo
Country: Australia
Released: May 17, 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock
TRACKS
SIDE A
A1. No News Is Bad News 6:55
A2. Take It Or Leave It 8:26
SIDE B
B1. Eden 6:08
B2. Empty Ships 8:23
LINE - UP
Bass, Piano, Vocals – Julian Frese
Drums, Vocals – Charlie Gradon
Guitar, Vocals – Dean McLeod
Percussion, Congas, Rainstick, Shaker, Tambourine – Tobia Blefari
Synth – Dan Frizza
Lyrics By – Charlie Gradon, Dean McLeod, Rachel Pascall
Songwriter, Producer – Turtle Skull
Flac Size: 195 MB
TURTLE SKULL - MONOLITHS 2020
This record is about the intimate connection we share with the Earth on which we stand. It’s about the world and your place in it. It’s about looking deep inside yourself and seeing what you find. It’s about
life and death and everything in between. It’s about greed, racism, colonialism and technological destruction. It’s about hopelessness and despair. It’s about self love and introspection. It’s about friendship and the power of shared experience. It’s about life-changing psychedelic journeys. It’s about connecting with the source. And most of all it’s about the pure joy of creation. We are very happy to share it with you.
Turtle Skull – Monoliths
Label: Art As Catharsis Records – none, Kozmik Artifactz – ARTIFACT 110
Format: CD
Country: Australia
Released: Aug 28, 2020
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Alternative Rock
TRACKS
01. Leaves 6:59
02. Rabbit 4:01
03. Heartless Machine 6:59
04. Why Do You Ask? 6:55
05. Who Cares What You Think? 7:23
06. Halcyon 4:37
07. Apple Of Your Eye 6:40
08. The Clock Strikes Forever 11:42
LINE - UP
Tobia Blefari - Percussion (congas, rain stick, shaker, tambourine)
Julian Frese - Bass, piano, vocals
Dan Frizza - Synths
Charlie Gradon - Drums, vocals
Dean McLeod - Guitars, vocals
Kostas, i think you're trying to seduce me and you managed to say something. You know my weakness for Aussie bands. Thanks anyway for the unknown.
ReplyDeleteVivacomedown....if you interested in the PAGANS just take to the ones i recommended on Resurrection Records (77-79). The pink album it's bad. It's a different band.
I think that this strange band has a new Psychedelic sound and I like them. Their vocals are ethereal, is my style!!!
DeleteI'll mention one of my favorite Aussie bands TACTICS. They were from the early 80s. Words fail to describe how good they are.
DeleteResonance Records not Ressurection.
DeleteThank you very much for dispelling a little more of my musical ignorance, Kostas. In re: Aussie bands, I don't know if you're aware but King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are putting up their gigs for free download/contributions on bandcamp. Have a look at https://bootleggizzard.bandcamp.com/
ReplyDeleteThank you Richie, I posted King Gizzard many months ago. I will take a look at the link in bandcamp.
DeleteViacomclose...here's the promised punk/rock
ReplyDeleterecommendation and a little known one:
CINECYDE - I left my heart in Detroit (1982)
The band is also from Detroit.
Worthy successor to MC5 etc...
And again: take PAGANS - SAME on Resonance Records. The other one is bad !
Thanks Josef, I left bid on PAGANS record will have to wait to see. Thanks for info
DeleteViacomclose...and something very special:
ReplyDeleteTHE TURN UPS OR BILLY SYNTH AND THE TURN UPS PUNK from L. A. 1980-83 all 4 lps.
" Nobody" knows them, i've never seen them anywhere.
What is a very good punk (?):
The Rats, Afrika Korps/ The Korps, Alley Cats, Bizarros, Rubber City Rebels, Crime, Los Numbers, Martyrs, Forgotten Rebels, Someone & Somebodies, 100 Flowers, Crime etc. etc...
Definetely not Sex Pistols, Clash London Calling and all that other shit that the media and self- proclaimed " experts" always put at the top of their list. None of my punk bands are on their list( haha...) The same applies the other way around. Most of the time, these bastards don't even know them. My god, how
I despive them!
Next time, a very good punk band from 80s and from France !
Josef, yes I like many of those will write a couple down I haven't heard. I just watched (at work) first time about our Twin Cities old scene--I got in around 1983 then shows later on bus past the McPunks ha ha here is link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8zVO5Ug0zA
DeleteI like so much punk from listening to MRR radio show and from friends and when I lived in L.A. in 2003 many came out of the woodwork as I saw Angry Samoans, Bad Brains (in Malibu on Halloween they let me in dressing room to hang out and talk to them), Nip Drivers, Rhythm Pigs, 7 Seconds, Outcry, SNFU (saw them at Entry a few times as nearby from Canada--Mr. Chi Pig [R.I.P.] hung from rafters over audience as he sang), White Cross, Big Boys, Black Flag (fave tour I saw them during 'In Your Head' good album then saw in L.A. 2003 with Dezzo singing my fave and also no singer where fans sung instead at Bigfoot Lounge), Meat Puppets, The Fix, Urinals, Germs, Suicidal Tendencies (got T-shirt first album saw a few times), Die Kreuzen early on, Descendents saw the first 6 tours at First Ave, Circle Jerks, Dead Milkmen great show saw first tour in tiny Uptown bar no longer exists in MN, Superchunk, Tuscadero, Ramones of course loved first album on my walkman mostly biking around town, Pagans, D.R.I. always a fun show...I liked thrash scene quite a bit w Pushead, Naked Raygun, Big Black, Effigies, saw them all, Crime yes!, J.F.A., T.S.O.L., Crass, Youth Brigade was a major one for me also got to hang with the band at bar before shows in MN and CA. Social D. most of BYO bands. Minor Threat first hardcore record buy, Iron Cross, Crucifix, Scream, Raw Power, so so many. I like how our scene evolved now to Radio K my college station..I remember in Uptown during a block party I had a shirt on and punk guy and I agreed it was the future and it sure was in the 90's/00's when I listened all the time and I'm sure today. "It's The K Today" as one of our hiphop scene bands stated and I liked that scene also
Thank you for your report. My friend, you've seen more punk bands live than i have haha...i also appreciate some of the ones you mentioned, like T.S.O.L. revenge (only that one !) Urinals precursors of 100 Flowers, Meat Puppets ( the early). I don't know many of the bands you mentioned andi don't like some.
DeleteThere are a few on my list that only rel. singles, but the're so good that i wanted to mention them. The list could go on go. I'd just like to mention 2 that i
really like NUNS ( S. F.) & MISSION OF BURMA ( Boston).
After I wrote it yesterday many more came flooding to mind like seeing Agent Orange many times and once at the Surf Museum show in CA, The Faction--I have live vinyl to convert yet, Neon (you must hear them), Agression (love this band), did you like the Civilised Society? post this week (these demos outshine their later) or how about our scene history link you must watch and tell me this is not one sided, all the U.K. bands like Killjoys you must have heard them?? (pre-Dexy's), and most of all I regretted mentioning was The Weirdos--their vinyl sounds so good that I have posted and I got recently to convert Dix Denney Skateboards To Hell seven inch. Many more like some of that frat rock like Child Molesters or the Scotchmen or Drunks With Guns or Men In Black from New Orleans or Pork Dukes or The Novas from my first house neighborhood who did the Crusher song that I shouted out to the Cramps to play for encore and they did! I prefer the Volcano Suns over Mission of Burma.
DeleteThanks for your effort. A lot of names.
DeleteI'll check some thing out !!
Thank you Kostas. I like the idea of ethereal vocals over an otherwise heavy sound.
ReplyDelete