Seluah Seeing Red

Seluah are a bunch of Louisville, Kentucky psych rockers who embrace the languid groove rather than the overdriven crunch, a more rustic approach to the genre that is apparent on their LP Red Parole (except for the excellent one-two punch of 'Black Sand' and 'Hell And Back', that are so heavily indebted to Black Mountain that it may as well be McBean et al at the controls!). Yet they stamp and slide all over the genre tropes to create something quite different. It's great stuff.

Seluah have actually been around for a while, went dormant, and now Red Parole stands as their first album in 10 years - so maybe Black Mountain is indebted to them, hmm? Grab Red Parole here and make up your own mind.

Meeting Mary Lou On Black Mountain

Despite being somewhat underwhelmed by their third LP Wilderness Heart back in 2010, Canadian psychers Black Mountain really impressed with their show at the Zoo last year. So I was quite excited to hear that they had a new song out, albeit as part of a soundtrack. Year Zero is billed as an "apocalyptic surf movie", whilst the soundtrack offers some old, familiar tracks with some altogether new ones. The first slice is 'Mary Lou', and it has totally restored my faith in the Vancouver marauders.


Year Zero comes out next month on Jagjaguwar.

Tracklist
1. Phosphorescent Waves
2. Bright Lights
3. Mary Lou
4. Embrace Euphoria
5. Tyrants
6. Modern Music
7. In Sequence
8. Wilderness Heart
9. Breathe

Black Mountain - Mary Lou