SUNGOD's latest full-length "Crash Galactic" has been officially released as EMT006 on audio CD by EM Tapes! The limited edition (100) audio CD comes housed in an amaray DVD case, with a hand-numbered insert from the band. Artwork by dear friend, Justin Grove.
Pre-orders have already shipped and EM Tapes is completely sold out of the CD. It's still available from the following sources:
Aquarius Records (US)
Midheaven Mailorder (US)
Norman Records (UK)
Archipelago Rises (AU)
Clear Spot (NL)
Edited together from a year's worth of compositions and improvisations, Crash Galactic is 70-minute, near-continuous study in sequenced kraut forms, avant-garde sound design, transcendent blues, tenebrous ambiance, riffadelic drug rock, and supernal jazz.
Reviews:
"We've been meaning to review something from these Texan psychedelic space-kraut heavies for ages now, this one is as good
a place to start as any, their latest, a super limited cd-r that finds
Sungod traveling the astral plane, and offering up a pretty fair (and
extremely varied) sampling of what these guys are capable of, their
sound all over the map, but all held together by an underlying kosmische
drift, the opener, is a hushed brooding slow build, that wreaths subtle
low end shimmer, in clouds of swirling space-aged blips and bloops, total planetarium show trip out, until part way through, when the drums come in, transforming the sound into something much more dense and driving, but still plenty abstract. The second track is a lush expanse of harmonium like drones, pulsing
beneath swirling FX and acoustic guitar Appalachia, haunting and
meditative, before slipping into the next track, a swirling retro
synth groove that would sit pretty perfectly alongside the current crop
of retro futuristic synth wranglers. Krautrocky and cosmic!
The
sound shifts dramatically after that, a sort of slow slithery acoustic
blues, all slippery slide, laced with piano, and peppered with
empty tin can percussion, which gives way to a heady slab of pulsating
spaced out synthscapery, all droney, and Necks-like with skittery
free jazz drumming, and delicate piano, under clouds of swirling
synths, and from there on out, all bets are off, the band slipping
easily from super distorted fuzzy kraut flecked garagerock groove, to
super abstract collaged ambience, to blown out blissed out freeform noise, to heavy Hawkwind style spacerock freakout, to hazy, druggy musique concrete, to heavy cosmic synthdrone mesmer." - aQuarius
"Aha. Something cosmic for my ears. Nice! I never heard the cassette by these guys on Expo 70’s label that came out a while back but rest assured I wanted to. After a quick scan on the site I can see our Mike heard it and reviewed it! Well here’s a new CD that’s just landed courtesy of Patrick Park aka Kosmonaut on his Ethereal Mother Tapes imprint. As you’d expect it’s ludicrously limited to 100 copies and it comes in a DVD style case.
So on this CD you get 70 minutes of krauty kosmische-style dronings with some nice repeato kraut rhythms, some stonking psychedelic riffy rock, some jazz, some ambience, some blues and more than likely some other things I’m too lazy to think of/list. It’s a funny one as there are so many genres touched on here you’d think it wouldn’t work. The chuggy krauty rhythms of ‘Bounded Hessians’ go straight into a blues laden ‘There’s Hell In That Girl’ complete with tinkly sleigh bells and piano. The latter is a gorgeous piece of music by the way. And then before you know it there’s acoustic guitar and cosmic synth sounds. So if you’re into cosmic things then this would be an excellent thing to pick up." - Norman Records
So on this CD you get 70 minutes of krauty kosmische-style dronings with some nice repeato kraut rhythms, some stonking psychedelic riffy rock, some jazz, some ambience, some blues and more than likely some other things I’m too lazy to think of/list. It’s a funny one as there are so many genres touched on here you’d think it wouldn’t work. The chuggy krauty rhythms of ‘Bounded Hessians’ go straight into a blues laden ‘There’s Hell In That Girl’ complete with tinkly sleigh bells and piano. The latter is a gorgeous piece of music by the way. And then before you know it there’s acoustic guitar and cosmic synth sounds. So if you’re into cosmic things then this would be an excellent thing to pick up." - Norman Records
