[atsonicpark]

laura was pretty saucy:

 

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

haha thanks for that!

it's an interesting set of interviews and gives more insight into the band than an interview with either of the permanent members ever could

[dionysusundone]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

laura was pretty saucy:

 

Yeah man I'd like to get into HER horseshit.
That was gross. Sorry.

[Genteel Death]

Psychedelic Horseshit Gets Laced
February 18, 2011
By Brendan Mehan



On January 31, Psychedelic Horseshit wrote a jubilant Tumblr post titled We Signed Bitches!!!!!!! in relation to the bands signing to Fatcat. After six years of battling in obscurity, eating out of dumpsters, and bitching about other lo-fi bands, the group is now happily being cared for by same family that cared for Animal Collective. The Columbus, OH duo of Matt Horseshit (real name?) and Ryan Jewell already has its (horse) shit together and announced the release of the upcoming album, Laced, on May 10.

The band actually had the album recorded and ready to go when it signed to Fatcatdisappointingly (or otherwise) there wasnt some 20 day-long amphetamine-fueled recording binge or anything. Most of the album was recorded in basements and bathrooms using 40 year-old, beat up reel-to-reel tape, all helping the band stay close to the lo-fi genre that it so pleasantly deemed shitgaze. However, the album is apparently much cleaner and more electronic than any of the bands previous efforts.

Psychedelic Horseshit is currently planning a tour, so stay tuned for more info. The tracklist for Laced is below.

Tracklist for Laced:
01. Pufff Day
02. Time Of Day
03. French Countryside
04. Laced
05. Tropical Vision
06. I Hate The Beach
07. Another Side
08. Revolution Wavers
09. Dead On Arrival
10. Automatic Writing
11. Making Out

[the ikara cult]

I cant quite believe they have signed to a label, i thought they were gonna implode in a cloud of smoked bass players

[Pelle]

Never heard of this band...but I like the bandname,

[the ikara cult]

Originally Posted by Pelle

Never heard of this band...but I like the bandname,

they are basically like Wavves except they make you happy rather than depressed.

[Genteel Death]

From their newsletter.

Live Shows
We don't have anything outside of tomorrow night's Columbus show booked, but watch this space, as we should have more shows to announce very soon. We'll be booking a bunch of US shows around the album launch and fans on the other side of the pond should be able to check out shows there soon, as Matt is coming over to the UK for two weeks in late April / early May, where he'll be doing a bunch of promo for the record, playing a handful of solo shows, and no doubt generally causing mischief. There will be a full UK / European tour later in the year. As ever, if anyone is interested in putting us on, do get in touch.

[Genteel Death]

Currently existing as the duo of Matt Horseshit (vocals / guitars / drum programming / harmonica / keyboards) and Ryan Jewell (drums / percussion / keyboards), 'Laced' also features a guest appearance by Times New Viking's Beth Murphy, who sings on 'DOA'. Created in Columbus throughout 2010, the album was recorded in a variety of basements, practice spaces, living rooms, and bathrooms using almost no amplifiers and a beat up 70's Teac reel to reel. No longer mining corrosive, lo-fi dysfunctionality in 2-minute adrenaline hits, 'Laced' is the first record to see them consistently stretching things out and breaking new ground. Losing the caked-in distortion and aggression, whilst retaining a drugged density and adventurousness, it is cleaner and far more electronic.

[Genteel Death]

Guitar, keyboards and drums remain staple instruments, but the driving bass guitar is ditched as samplers and electronics become increasingly central. Matt sampled, chopped and re-sequenced sections of Jewell's druming, forming a series of piled-up rhythms and loops. With this foregrounding of both rhythm and a spiralling mass of processed tones / melodies, 'Laced' could pass as a very a fried, psychedelic dance record. Numerous tracks bring to mind the early '90s indie-dance axis of MBV's 'Loveless' / Happy Mondays' 'Pills...' / Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica'. Squelchy, fluid and immersive, its huge blown-out swathes of blissfully reverberant FX, buried voices, smeared electronics and melted-out guitar processing recall the likes of Black Dice, Growing and Animal Collective. The pitchbent synth opening the 8-minute long I Hate The Beach' replicates Omar Souleyman's Syrian horns; Another Sides harmonica and acoustic guitar nods towards Dylan; whilst the frequent blissed-out frequency mess summons the spirit of Astral Social Club. There are blissfully shimmering loop-sections; places where the whole buckles in on itself. At the centre of the slurred, swirling chaos is Matts gnarly, nasal vocal.

[loubarret]

Originally Posted by the ikara cult

they are basically like Wavves except they make you happy rather than depressed.

Wavves just fell apart after their second selftiteld, even I also like the horseshit better there not as worse as their mostly made out for on this site

[SpaceCadetHayden]

http://psychedelichorseshit.tumblr.com

for the lulz

[the ikara cult]

Originally Posted by loubarret

Wavves just fell apart after their second selftiteld, even I also like the horseshit better there not as worse as their mostly made out for on this site

this sentence is a grammar snob's dream come true

[Genteel Death]

SHITTY SUNDAYS
so were doing this weekly free mp3 thing every sunday leading up to the release of LACED on may 10th. each week will be different, all unreleased material, we dont even know what next weeks will be yet! *remixes, pop songs, techno jams, live stuff, ambient fluff, covers and the occasional in-joke, plus whatever else is lurking in the dark recesses of our skulls. anyhow, it starts this weekend april 3rd and i can tell you that this weeks installment features 3 radical trax! *its free too, you dont even gotta give up an email address.*
each sunday check back for the latest installment, you will find the links here and over @ fatcats website.
http://psychedelichorseshit.tumblr.com

[Derek]

VV: But your music has a lot in common with Dick Dale, and you’ve cited the Beach Boys as an influence. How big of an influence is surf rock?
WAVVES: Musically, …the Beach Boys… I’m sorry, I don’t understand the question. I’m really high right now.

[Genteel Death]

I was wondering what Matt Whitehurst and Rich Johnston are up to these days. Apparently Matt Whitehurst occasionally does sound for Royal Trux and Rich Johnston is a magician and also plays drums for Tommy Jay's Latest Freakshow and Pink Reason.

[Toilet & Bowels]

I really regret not going to their last show in London. They were a band that i thought would be around for longer.

[Genteel Death]

I went to the gig they, or him, as it was only Matt and a bunch of electronic machines, played at the Shacklewell's Arms. I'm not sure it was the last gig PH played in London, though. I think he played one more that I couldn't go to.

Some more bands I wonder what happened to: Eat Skull, Blues Control and Times New Viking.

[Toilet & Bowels]

Isn't one of Times New Viking making music with Ron House now?


Edit: yep, the counter intuits

[Genteel Death]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Isn't one of Times New Viking making music with Ron House now?


Edit: yep, the counter intuits

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks. I think Russ Waterhouse of Blues Control is now playing gigs solo. Their FB page hasn't been updated for ages.