Psychic Ills: The Early Years

 

When it comes to following the beat of their own drum, New York’s Psychic Ills have exemplified the phrase since their beginnings in 2003. Initially spawned from electronic-centered home recording experiments, they progressed into all-night full-band exploration in a neighborhood where noise wasn’t a

problem. They soon after evolved into a live band seemingly at home within the extended jam, exploring a variety of musical terrain. The early years saw several releases for Social Registry, tons of time on the road, and collaborations with artists as diverse as Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and Sonic Boom (Spacemen Three/Spectrum). In 2011, their first effort for Sacred Bones, Hazed Dream traded in the synthesizer space-outs and raga rumbles, and delivered  records of sunburned psych pop, awash in warm tones and blues damaged songwriting. 
                       

01. PSYCHIC ILLS - DINS 2005

                          

Dins is the full-length debut of New York City's Psychic Ills; a band known for their squalling live shows that combine post-punk sonics, deafening drones, psychedelic weirdness, rhythmic tribalism, and loose, shambolic, improvisational jams that have everything to do with chaos and intensity. That weird Eastern

tinged mental drug orgy thing that seems so elusive to so many nowadays drenches these proceedings. Check the hand drumming and snaky guitar in "East" for starters. There's that eerie blues thing going on with the modal guitar line, with hypnotic bass lines and hand drums. It's the payoff before the seduction where everything that's delivered in a haunted, wooly sanguine blur was never promised. Who knows what's being sung, and who cares? It's silvery, slithering melodic fabric has no seam, everything lies down together in a psychedelic rock & roll orgy of acid-guzzled, dark-thrummed bliss. Dins does it, over and again. 
                               

Psychic Ills – Dins
Label: The Social Registry – TSR024
Format: Album, Digipak
Country: US
Released: 2005
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Ethereal, Electroacoustic, Experimental

TRACKS

01. East    1:39
02. Electric Life    5:26
03. (Untitled)   4:25
Effects [Stereo Parametric Equalizer] – Charles Burst
04. January Rain    5:38
05. Inauration    1:57
06. I Knew My Name    8:33
07.Witchcraft Breaker   2:12
Horns – Jesse Trbovich    
08. Another Day Another Night    8:08

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02.  PSYCHIC ILLS - EARLY VIOLENCE 2006

                              

Early Violence, a 35-minute album with a December 2006 release date, marks the first time that some of

Psychic Ills' pre-Dins recordings have been available on CD. This disc unites the contents of Psychic Ills' first two releases, "Mental Violence I" (a 7" record) and "Mental Violence II" (a 12" record), with two previously unreleased songs: "Highway of Death" and "Diamond City Redux." Although Psychic Ills were still finding their creative way during those first few months, they had an attractive style early on: a spacey and hazy yet distorted, gritty, and rockin' style that drew on influences ranging from shoegazer bands of the '90s and 2000s to '60s and early '70s psychedelic garage rock. 
                   

Psychic Ills – Early Violence
Label: The Social Registry – TSR032
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: US
Released: Dec 5, 2006
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

01. Vice    2:25
02. Killers    4:25
03. Diamond City    4:01
04. Days    7:09
05. Highway Of Death    3:51
06. 4AM    6:14
07. Red-Split    3:35
08. Diamond City Redux    4:20

NOTES

Tracks 1 & 2 from: Killers 7" single 2003
Tracks 3, 4, 6 & 8 from: Mental Violence 12" single 2005
Track 5 from: Various Artists CD compilation xgLA: Sophistication Meets The Streets (U.S. Pop Life Vol. 19) 2005
Track 7 from: Various Artists 2xCD compilation Every Day Since Sixty Six / Ascension Days (When We Rise) 2005
(Unlisted Track 8 not mentioned on packaging).

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03. PSYCHIC ILLS - LIVE AT LEVITATION 2012 (2022)

                         

The fifth LP in this Live at LEVITATION series features New York psych legends Psychic Ills capturing

the band’s spellbinding performance in 2012."The first thing that grabbed me when I listened to our 2012 performance at Austin Psych Fest is Tres declaring at the start of the recording “It’s good to be back in Texas” because that simple sentiment captured everything we felt in that moment—the nostalgia and privilege of coming back to our home state for such an iconic festival." - Elizabeth Hart (Psychic Ills)
                        

Psychic Ills – Live At Levitation
Label: The Reverberation Appreciation Society – RVRB-053
Series: Live At Levitation 
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Sep 30, 2022
Country: Europe
Released: 2012
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

SIDE A.

                   

A1. Midnight Moon    4:19
A2. Mind Daze    3:31
A3. Incense Head    3:58
A4. Ring Finger    4:16
A5. Electriclife    4:02

SIDE B.

             

B1. Meta    3:57
B2. Diamond City    3:41
B3. January Rain    6:32
B4. I'll Follow You Through The Floor    4:35

NOTES

2012 performance at Austin Psych Fest

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Psychic Ills: Hazed Dream 2011 + One Track Mind 2013 + Inner Journey Out 2016

 

Over the course of more than 15 years, New York's Psychic Ills matured from a writhing mass of raw, hypnotic noise rock into a more nuanced form of psychedelic songwriting. The group was highly

esteemed in underground circles, working with indie labels like Sacred Bones and Social Registry and collaborating on their songs with members of Royal Trux and Mazzy Star before they were tragically called to a close with the death of founding member Tres Warren in 2020. Initially spawned from electronic-centered home recording experiments, they progressed into all-night full-band exploration in a neighborhood where noise wasn’t a problem. 
                                    

Psychic Ills formed in New York City in 2003, made up of Warren on vocals and guitarist/keyboard player Tom Gluibizzi. Following Mental Violence I, the duo was joined by bassist Elizabeth Hart and drummer Brian Tamborello to record their first proper full-length, 2006's Dins. The album's

cover art is German Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell's painting Three Hairs and Shadow. The Village Voice named Psychic Ills "Best Psych Rock Band" in their 2006 Best of NYC issue.
In early 2008, Psychic Ills performed in Marfa, Texas for the opening of the Hello Meth Lab in the Sun art installation and at the Contemporary Art Museum in Bordeaux France for the IAO festival. In 2009 they released the album Mirror Eye and toured the US with Butthole Surfers. 
                            

Their sound can be seen as a combination of the drones of Shoegazer bands, the psychedelic aspect of 80's and 90's Neo Psychedelic bands, the energetic playing of Punk bands and ambient textures reminiscent to Ambient and Electronic artists as well as many other genres with the same flavor. If you're a fan of bands like My Bloody Valentine, Spacemen 3, Sonic Youth and Bardo Pond and drug-

influenced genres then Psychic Ills won't be out of place in your collection.
Members of Psychic Ills have been involved in various other projects. Elizabeth Hart plays bass with Effi Briest and performs with the improvisational dance and music ensemble Skint. Tres Warren collaborates with visual artist Taketo Shimada as Messages and with Drew McDowall as Compound Eye. Former drummer Brian Tamborello participated in the Boredoms Boadrum projects and played drums on Mike Wexler's record Sun Wheel.
                           

For 2011's Hazed Dream, the band moved to Sacred Bones Records and opted for a more streamlined, accessible approach. In Spring 2013 the band released their fourth album One Track Mind and toured

Europe afterwards. 2013's One Track Mind continued on into even more accessible territory, with production and guest vocals from Royal Trux's Neil Hagerty. Brent Cordero, who had played keyboards with Psychic Ills on tour, became part of their studio crew for the sessions that produced the group's fifth album, 2016's Inner Journey Out. The album also featured a guest appearance from Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star, who contributed vocals to the song "I Don't Mind." Warren died on March 21, 2020 at age 41.
                                            

01.  PSYCHIC ILLS - HAZED DREAM 2011

                           

Psychic Ills' Sacred Bones label debut Hazed Dream doesn’t lie about its intentions: the whole album rolls

along like a fogged-out vision, albeit a very different one from anything the band has crafted before. Instead of the sonic maelstroms of Dins, Hazed Dream is a low-hanging fog, misty and down to earth at the same time. Hazed Dream is the band’s subtlest album as well as its most accessible, and its low-key pleasures reveal themselves over time. 
                   

Psychic Ills – Hazed Dream
Label: Sacred Bones Records – SBR-063CD
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Oct 18, 2011
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                                     

                                      
01. Midnight Moon    3:49
02. Mind Daze    3:39
03. Incense Head    4:14
04. Mexican Wedding    3:21
05. That's Alright    3:55
06. Ring Finger    4:08
07. Travelin' Man    3:43
08. Sungaze    4:08
09. Dream Repetition    2:01
10. I’ll Follow You Through The Floor    4:47
11. Same Old Song    3:10

LINE - UP

                       

Bass – Elizabeth Hart
Drums, Bongos, Guiro, Maracas – Brian Tamborello
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Guitar [Wah], Guitar [E-bow], Keyboards, Vocals, Drum Machine, Sruti Box, Jew's Harp, Synthesizer, Harmonica – Tres Warren
Written-By, Mixed By – Psychic Ills

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02.  PSYCHIC ILLS - ONE TRACK MIND 2013

                      

Going from their 2003 inception to fourth album One Track Mind ten years later has been a winding road

for New York's Psychic Ills. The menacing and hypnotic basslines, ghost-town blues, and druggy drifter motifs of the album still have shades of the group's noisy beginnings, but most of the formless doom has been replaced with more traditional expressions of dread. "One Track Mind" kicks things off sounding like a listless sunburned daydream from some imaginary hybrid of the Gun Club and Spacemen 3. 
                              

Psychic Ills – One Track Mind
Label: Sacred Bones Records – SBR-089CD
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 2013
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                        

01. One More Time   3:41
Backing Vocals [Back Up Vocals] – Charles Burst
02. See You There    5:03
03. Might Take A While   3:45
Backing Vocals [Back Up Vocals] – Neil Michael Hagerty    
04. Depot    3:22
05. Tried To Find It    5:18
06. FBI   3:33
Bongos – Charles Burst
07. I Get By   4:19
Guitar – Neil Michael Hagerty
08. City Sun    4:01
09. Western Metaphor    4:56
10. Drop Out    5:24

BONUS TRACK

    
11. Violet Horizon   3:51
Backing Vocals [Back Up Vocals] – Charles Burst

LINE - UP

                            

Bass – Elizabeth Hart
Drums – Chris Millstein
Guitar, Vocals, Organ, Piano, Harmonica – Tres Warren
Illustration [Cover Drawning "True Happiness"], Painting [Inner Sleese "Spacescape"] – Powell St. John
Recorded By [Additional] – Tres Warren
Songwriter [All Songs By] – Psychic Ills

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03.  PSYCHIC ILLS - INNER JOURNEY OUT 2016

                    

Psychic Ills created one of the truly great "drifting on a cloud of lysergic thought" albums with their

fifth long-player, 2016's Inner Journey Out. Obviously built around the notion that less is more, Inner Journey Out is made up of slow, contemplative numbers that embellish circular guitar and keyboard patterns as the musicians reach out to their hypnotic potential. Inner Journey Out isn't made for all listeners or all purposes, but anyone interested in a journey down a peaceful river of sculpted sound is advised to investigate its properties. 
                             

Psychic Ills – Inner Journey Out
Label: Sacred Bones Records – SBR155CD, Sacred Bones Records – SBR-155
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Jun 3, 2016
Genre: Rock
Style: Alternative Rock, Acoustic, Psychedelic Rock, 

TRACKS

                             

01. Back To You    3:59
Congas, Shaker, Wood Block – Derek James
02. Another Change    5:22
Backing Vocals – Lady Peachena, Nadine Simmons
03. I Don't Mind     4:41
Vocals – Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star)
04. Mixed Up Mind    3:41
05. All Alone    3:34
Backing Vocals – Lady Peachena, Nadine Simmons
06. New Mantra    2:04
Vocals – Lady Peachena, Nadine Simmons
07. Coca-Cola Blues    7:12
08. Baby    4:15
Backing Vocals – Lady Peachena, Nadine Simmons
Tambourine – Thom Monahan
Timpani – Charles Burst
09. Music In My Head    3:28
Acoustic Guitar – Mike Wexler
Bongos – Charles Burst
10. No Worry    3:35
Drums – Charles Burst
11. Hazel Green    5:50
Drums – Charles Burst
12. Confusion (I'm Alright)    3:16
Congas – Derek James
13. Ra Wah Wah    9:12
Chimes – Derek James
14. Fade Me Out    3:55
Other [Glass Bottle] – Derek James

LINE - UP

                       

Acoustic Guitar, Vocals – Tres Warren
Bass – Elizabeth Hart
Congas, Shaker, Wood Block – Derek James
Drums – Chris Millstein, Harry Druzd
Organ – Brent Cordero
Backing Vocals – Lady Peachena, Nadine Simmons
Pedal Steel Guitar – Tim Ramsey, Matty McDermott
Vocals – Hope Sandoval
Saxophone – Casey Butler
Written-By – Psychic Ills

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The Open Mind: The Open Mind 1969

 

The band was originally formed as The Apaches in 1965 by four musicians from Putney, South London. A personnel change a year later brought about the new name “The Drag Set,” which consisted of Mike Brancaccio (guitar, vocals), Timothy du Feu (bass guitar), Phil Fox (drums), and Terry

Martin (a.k.a. Terry Schindler - guitar, vocals). They enjoyed a solid reputation and a modicum of success on the London blues circuit throughout 1966, backing such visiting luminaries as Wilson Pickett and John Lee Hooker. After appearing at London's legendary venues like Middle East, the UFO Club, the Electric Garden (supporting Pink Floyd on opening night!), and The Marquee (opening for The Electric Prunes), where they were sometimes fronted by a pre-Yes Jon Anderson, boxing impresario Benny Huntman promised them a deal with Philips on the condition that his son, Roger, was installed as their manager. 
                               

In 1967, they laid down some tracks with a “very enthusiastic and encouraging” Joe Meek, but his suicide less than a week later quashed any potential release. In March, the CBS subsidiary Go released their debut single, the Mod-inflected “Day and Night” b/w “Get Out of My Way.” Despite favorable reviews in

Record Mirror and NME, the single sank without a trace (although the band would rework the A-side in the future). The band’s most well-known single, “Magic Potion” (c/w “Cast A Spell”) was actually a post-LP effort. The track immediately became a favorite on John Peel’s legendary BBC 1 radio program. Its monotonous rhythm guitar anticipates the stoner rock of Hawkind while double bass drum fills and doom-laden fuzz guitar ragas combine bombastic rock power with Eastern-influenced psychedelia. It has been included on many recent psych & garage compilations and is frequently cited as one of the ten greatest UK-psych singles of all time.
                           

Their album was recorded in the spring of 1969 with Walker Brothers/Dusty Springfield producer Johnny Franz, but the band's greatest achievement came with the druggy "Magic Potion", a post-album single (August 1969) that was overseen by former Four Pennies member Fritz Fryer. One of the best-loved British psychedelic albums of all time, The Open Mind is a hard-rocking collection that sold in minute

numbers upon its original release on Philips in 1969.  This London group’s sole album has long been an obscure collector’s item, revered as the apotheosis of the prog-psych that evolved out of the mid-1960s freakbeat sound typified by such bands as the Yardbirds, the Attack (who would transmogrify into pioneering prog-rock outfit Andromeda), and the Creation. The Open Mind disbanded in 1973; its members wanted to move into jazz-influenced music, but The Open Mind was too well-known as a psychedelic band. The band members (minus Phil Fox) went on to form Armada, which lasted about three years but did not release any recorded material. 
                         

LINE - UP

                               

Mike Bran, a.k.a. Mike Brancaccio – lead guitar, vocals, piano (born 17 April 1946, Rome, Italy; died 2022)
Timothy du Feu – bass guitar (born 31 May 1944, Malvern, Worcestershire, England)
Philip Fox – drums (born 26 August 1946, Westminster, South West London)
Ray Nye – guitar, vocals
Terry Martin, a.k.a. Terry Schindler – guitar, vocals (born 26 August 1945, Holborn, West Central London)

The Open Mind interview with Timothy Dufeu (It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine) HERE 

                                   

The Open Mind – The Open Mind
Label: Sunbeam Records – SBMCW5501
Series: Sunbeam Masters
Format: CD, Album, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition, Reissue Jul 3, 2006
Country: UK
Released: 1969    
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                                  

01. Dear Louise   3:10
Written-By – Brancaccio
02. Try Another Day   2:41
Written-By – Brancaccio
03. I Feel The Same Way Too   5:02
Written-By – Brancaccio
04. My Mind Cries   3:08
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
05. Can't You See   2:57
Written-By – Brancaccio    
06. Thor The Thunder God   2:46
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
07. Horses And Chariots   3:35
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
08. Before My Time   4:06
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
09. Free As The Breeze   5:37
Written-By – Brancaccio
10. Girl I'm So Alone   3:19
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
11. Soul And My Will   2:56
Written-By – Brancaccio    
12. Falling Again   3:08
Written-By – Schindler
    

BONUS TRACKS

    
13. Magic Potion   3:24
Written-By – Brancaccio
14. Cast A Spell   2:12
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
15. Day And Night   2:15
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
16. Get Out Of My Way   2:18
Written-By – Brancaccio, Schindler
    

NOTES

Tracks 1 to 12 recorded in Philips Studios, Stanhope Place, London, Spring 1969.
Bonus tracks :
tracks 13 to 14 recorded in Philips Studios, Stanhope Place, London, Summer 1969.
Tracks 15 to 16 produced London, January 1967.

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Rancho Relaxo: Albums Disography 2007 - 2022

 

Rancho Relaxo (Norway) was formed back in 2002, when Inge Kjetil Sandvik Malmedal bought an

old 70s Crumar organ from his neighbor, and with his electric guitar and a 4-track tape machine, he started to make music. Then Martin Schram, a longtime friend, joined in on the organ and they started to tape hours and hours of improvised music. The music was a mix between the noise of Sonic Youth, melodies of Jesus and Mary chain and the drone of Spacemen 3. Droning guitar, monolithic organ and sometimes howling vocals; the style came naturally.
                        

Soon Khalil Olsen, another long time friend of the band joined in on drums. They played in different cellars and barns on the west coast of Møre og Romsdal, Norway. The music developed as

Inge Kjetil started to write and arrange songs for the band, and Martin switched from organ to bass guitar. The new songs approach was now more as Byrds-like harmonies, jangly guitars, tambourines, sitar and shoegaze vibes mixed with a good dose of neo-psychedelia. With 12 strings, lots of reverb, trippy melodies and some occasional fuzz freak-outs, they crafted their new sound. As the songs evolved they got a second guitar player. Ole Kristian Malmedal, who is Martins younger brother, joined in.
                         

In 2007 they released "Look at the Wall", the bands first "real" full-length album. During the year it took

to create "Look at the Wall", they moved out of the cold, drafty cellars and barns,
and into a room at a local gun range. However, after a dispute with the redneck landlord, they were kicked out. Then, they moved into an abandoned house owned by a relative, and freedom was upon them in this house…simply known as the Tilla house. With the freedom of Tilla, they got busy and recorded three new, full-length albums that were released in 2009
                    

Norwegian rock sensation Rancho Relaxo is renowned for their mesmerizing sound, which veers into the

psychedelic rock category. Rancho Relaxo has made a name for themselves in the rock music world with their own fusion of musical components. Rancho Relaxo's music is infused with mesmerizing guitar riffs, ethereal voices, and mind-altering melodies, drawing inspiration from the 1960s psychedelic movement. Their music explores the limits of conventional rock music while taking listeners on a transcendent journey through the depths of consciousness.
                          

Rancho Relaxo's music has a dreamlike quality that draws listeners into another plane of reality.

The group stands out from its contemporaries due to its aptitude at combining numerous musical influences and atmospheric soundscapes. They have a devoted following among rock fans thanks to their mesmerizing performances and contagious stage enthusiasm. Rancho Relaxo's music, which combines elements of folk, blues, and experimental rock, is evidence of their artistic diversity and willingness to venture into uncharted musical realms. 
                                  

Their superb musicianship is evident in their ability to shrewdly meld genres and weave an

emotional aural tapestry. It is impossible to overestimate Rancho Relaxo's influence on rock music, particularly psychedelic rock. They have created music that is a testament to rock's enduring influence and its capacity to lull listeners into a state of musical exploration and reflection.
                           

       

   It's very rare to find bands whose albums are all of such high quality. I think only the Brian JonesTown Massacre has managed to do that. 

                               

  

01.  LOOK AT THE WALL 2007

                               

This stuff is really great – strongly recommended. Guitar chords repeated over and over, never too

fast, never too excited, but atmospheric.The tracks are very much in some kind of song format, but nevertheless somehow dreamy and a little bit strange, with vocals merging very well with the soundscape.
[Homemade LoFi Psych 2008]
                 

Rancho Relaxo – Look At The Wall
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records – none
Format: CD, Album, Reissue Oct 20, 2014
Country: Norway
Released: 2007
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze

TRACKS

                     

01. Intro    2:15
02. Blue Bucket Blues    4:26
03. Monition    4:20
04. Get Go    4:01
05. From The Hip    2:58
06. Like A Light    4:09
07. Quebec    3:07
08. Just To Get A Gun    3:39
09. Twin Reel    3:17
10. Outro    7:16

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02.  NEON TWANG HOUSE 2009

                                 

Rancho relaxo manage it with the greatest of ease to make you feel as if you were lying there surrounded

by opium paraphernalia.
[KK, Cosmiclava (Sep 01, 2010)]
                           

Rancho Relaxo – Neon Twang House
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records – none
Format: CD, Album
Country: Norway
Released: 2009
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze

TRACKS

                         

01. Tilla Raga    2:18
02. Morning Light    3:17
03. Into Is Bad    2:46
04. D.D.D    4:47
05. At Your Door    7:17
06. Rest Your Case (Escobar)    2:57
07. Majka`s Dead    4:11
08. Like A Light (sitar ver.)    3:21
09. Y.D.F    3:09
10. Investigation Of Time    5:53
11. Jackals    3:21
12. Evolver    4:26

Flac Size: 325 MB

03.  INTO TROUBLE 2009

                            

Will win fans of the Brian Jonestown Massacre or anyone else that likes their tunes drugged out and

noisy!
[jimmy, Sounds Better With Reverb (Feb 21, 2012)]

                                

Rancho Relaxo - Into trouble
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records – none
Country: Norway
Type: Album
Released: 1 June 2009
RYM Rating: 3.50 / 5.0 from 1 rating
Genres: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze

TRACKS

                           

01. Mirror (Fast & Bulbus) 04:01    
02. To Fall 07:19    
03. Highway Through Your Brain 04:20    
04. Radiating Sunshine 02:17    
05. Alone On DMT 02:07    
06. Cactus, A Desert Pillow 02:54    
07. Dream Or Dance 02:57    
08. Savourine 01:40    
09. Unite Fight Revolution 02:54    
10. Untitled No 1 05:34    
11. Going Blind 02:27    
12. Set Me Free (Lou Reed) 02:58 

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04.  HEAVY THIRD EYE 2009

                            

Rancho Relaxo are quite simply one of the most exciting guitar bands on the planet right now. They

are responsible for some of the finest psychedelic drone rock in recent years!
[Jonny, Nugazer: The shoegaze blog (May 27, 2012)]
                    

Rancho Relaxo – Heavy Third Eye
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records – none
Format: CD, Album
Country: Norway
Released: 2009
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze

TRACKS

                        

01. Intro    1:15
02. Mirror    2:47
03. Walking With Napoleon    2:20
04. Celestial Take-Away    5:15
05. Harmony & Rockets    3:30
06. Mandela Rope    3:48
07. Amen    2:58
08. Celestial Give-Away    5:28
09. DMT    3:11
10. Hillman Nightmare    2:50
11. Sugar For The Devil    4:20
12. Tape Jam #2    6:21

Flac Size: 506 MB

05.  NEW KIND OF ORCHIDE 2010

                      

Catchy melody, shoegaze guitars, an hypnotic echo from a sitar, a clever taste in music being the

soundtrack of the sexiest, vintage, lysergic video ever
[Mark Zonda - Sleepwalkingmag]
                             

Rancho Relaxo – New Kind Of Orchide
Label: Merlins Nose Records – MN 1001
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: Apr 30, 2010
Genre: Rock
Style: Shoegaze, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                        

01. Black Nectarine From The Simian Heart    4:00
02. I Love You So    2:53
03. Freuds God, Spaceman    3:52
04. Road Raged The Fuck Out    3:09
05. New Kind Of Orchide    2:33
06. Velvet Heartattack    2:51
07. Wisdom Blackout    4:40
08. Die Robot    2:38
09. All You People    5:36
10. Hate Reversed Is Kind    3:12
11. Let It Glide    2:22
12. Hard From Heaven    3:45
13. Plan Your Revolution    5:00
14. The Pain Slows You Down    4:37
15. Electronic Orbital Roadmovie    4:09

Flac Size: 398 MB

06.  HAPPY FRIDAY EXPERIMENT 2011

                                

Who knew Norway’s greatest export was drug music? Happy Friday Experiment is 12 songs of

jangly fuzzed out pop drenched in layers of acoustic/electric strings and pulled along by hypnotic grooves, sitars, and tambourines.
[Sleepover, Record Of The Week Club (Jan 18, 2012)]
The listener is taken on a hypnotic, soothing trip to finest 1960's-influenced psychedelic music with dense sonic textures that generate a feeling of spiritual salvation
[KK, Cosmic Lava (Aug 08, 2012)]
                          

Rancho Relaxo – Happy Friday Experiment
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records – none
Format: CD, Album
Country: Norway
Released: 2012
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Shoegaze

TRACKS

                             

01. I Want You    3:20
02. Make You Mine    3:56
03. Cry Over You    4:15
04. Take A Walk With Me    3:22
05. Intermission (green)    2:32
06. Dead and Gone    2:30
07. Diamond Black    3:22
08. See What I Have Seen    3:47
09. My Heart My Mind    3:52
10. Intermission (blue)    1:54
11. Gandhi Is My Gun    5:10
12. Into The Night    7:32

BONUS        

    
13. Take A Walk With Me (alt.ver)    3:00
14. Gandhi Is My Gun (acoustic demo)    2:43

Flac Size: 372 MB

07.  WHITE LIGHT FEVER 2016

                          

From heavy psych-rock adrenalin kicks ("Dead Space") and hot'n'dirty grooving energy pills ("If

You Want To") to mid-tempo jewels with a melancholically sparkling, romantic twist ("Strange Vibrations", "Stars") to noise-pop tinted ballads with a bittersweet acoustic fragrance ("Taken") and psychedelic-driven, extraterrestrial-atmospheric soundtrack trips (“White Light”).
                          

Rancho Relaxo – White Light Fever
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records – none
Format: CD, Album
Country: Norway
Released: Jul 19, 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Shoegaze, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                         

01. Strange Vibration    4:58
02. Who Married Jane Fonda     3:50
03. Stars    4:45
04. Who Says    3:34
05. What You Want    3:35
06. I'm Crying    4:51
07. It's All A Dream    3:40
08. If You Want To    6:21
09. Dead Space    3:55
10. Clean Eyes    6:37
11. Desert Talk    4:25
12. Taken    3:40
13. Fake Human    8:10
14. Now It's Dark    3:10
15. White Light    8:43

Flac Size: 534 MB

08.  SOFT LUXURY 2018

                     

‘Love You Baby’ bounces into the sonic arena on the hum of bass frequencies as shakers and the drone of electronic sequencing beef up the sonic attack. Rancho Relaxo surf the outer edges of sonic

experimentation here, adding swirling electronics into the mix to coalesce with those meandering lines of bass as the track builds into one swirling tempest of beautiful noise and those sporadic off beats catch the ear. The vocal line seems to skirt the sonic melee completely, floating independently from the main body of instrumentation, lightly tethered to it at different times by intimate strands of melodic reverb. It’s a fascinating track that stands head and shoulders above anything else"
                           

Rancho Relaxo – Soft Luxury
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records – TALR 3-A
Format: CD, Album
Country: Norway
Released: 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Shoegaze, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

01. No Shadow No Sou
02. Igjen
03. You Know Her Name
04. Love You Baby
05. Mouth
06. Det Sku Ikkje Skjedd
07. Oh Me
08. Out The Door0

Flac Size: 320 MB

09.  SPIRIT OF ECSTASY 2022

                             

Rancho Relaxo`s 11th album is the real deal!
"Spirit of Ecstasy" are here, there, everywhere. It permeate, irradiate, subsume and consume you. The

album starts out as drowsy, dozy heaven-scented shoegaze that seems to be about hovering over the beloved, made dizzy by the share vulnerability. In the end it is almost too much- like staring into eyes whose pupils are so dilated they`re like blackholes pulling you to your doom. On "Spirit of Ecstasy", Rancho Relaxo are the same as before, only more so - more lustrous, languorous, inchoate, phantasmic. 

                                   

Rancho Relaxo – Spirit Of Ecstasy
Label: Trout As Lubrication Records 
Format: CD, Album
Country: Norway
Released: 2022
Genre: Rock
Style: Shoegaze, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

01. Alone With You 6:10
02. Colour the Stars 4:34
03. Night Turns to Day 4:50
04. Across the River 4:10
05. Spirit of Ecstasy 7:21
06. The Sky Fell Down 3:18
07. Constant Deja Vu 2:46
08. Black Soft Death 4:00
09. In the Void 4:01 

Flac Size: 298 MB