2nd November 2011: True Widow / Playlist

Featured: True Widow - As High As The Highest Heavens & From The Centre To The Circumference Of The Earth (Kemado)

The second album from this Texas band is built on a thunderous, distorted beauty that is compellingly gorgeous, heavy and slow... a dreamy, mud-bank metal/celestial drone-drawl.

Think Mazzy Star sludging through a thick swamp with even more plodding, hypnotic allure; think a Codeine steam roller methodically leveling sun-baked melodies at 3 kmph; a half-speed psychedelic stomp/sprawl with a heavy hand on the reverb/shoegaze chord; a purpose-driven snail on downers with an electric guitar and a chorus of swaying, hypnotized, lead-footed followers marching to a 20 ton slo-mo dance; sensual, opium-drenched pool laps in a quicksand embrace; an elephant thump-soaring through drug-hazed streets lined with beckoning angels...

The band calls it "stonegaze". I like it. A lot. (Charlie Quaker).

So do Sideways Through Sound Charlie, so do Sideways Through Sound...

True Widow

Radio Playlist 2nd November 2011 (here)

Midlake - Roscoe (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve remix)
The Main Street Gospel - Love Will Have Her Revenge (Love Will Have Her Revenge)
True Widow - Night Witches (A.H.A.T.H.H.A.F.T.C.T.T.C.O.T.E.)
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The Carpet Knights - Magical Space-Style (According To Life...)
Quest For Fire - Psychic Seasons (Lights From Paradise)
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound - Mosquito Lantern (Ekranoplan)
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True Widow - Skull Eyes (A.H.A.T.H.H.A.F.T.C.T.T.C.O.T.E.)
Hawkwind - Spiral Galaxy (Live at Canterbury Fayre 2001)
Luger - Zwischenspiel / Quidquid Latet Apparebit (Concrete Light)
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Saturnia - Organza (feat. Nik Turner) (Muzak)
Monkey3 - One Zero Zero One (Beyond The Black Sky)
True Widow - Blooden Horse (A.H.A.T.H.H.A.F.T.C.T.T.C.O.T.E.)
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Tears Run Rings - A Question & An Answer ( A Question & An Answer EP)
Can't Fake Nature - Ricordea Plains ("You..." EP)

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