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The Black Angels Share Their Bad Vibrations
By Johnny Firecloud
Monday, June 21, 2010
What’s a good song worth to you nowadays? An email address certainly isn’t going to break the bank, and with it you can download the lead single from underappreciated Austin rockers The Black Angels‘ new album.
Or, if you’re the stingy type, you can just listen to the track below. But we like our options, so we’re offering both.
Stream Bad Vibrations:
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The Angels’ new album, Phosphene Dream, is due out via Blue Horizon on Sept. 14, and is sure to be chock full of the darkly psychedelic guitar Rock they’re known for. It’s their inaugural release with the long-running label (who released Fleetwood Mac’s debut album), and the first the band has recorded outside their Austin hometown. They made a new home at the L.A. studio of Dave Sardy, who just finished work on Black Mountain’s newest effort.
Yes and yes. Also, good news on Black Mountain finishing new album. Would love to read Antiquiets take on both when the records are released. Still feel like the Black Mountain CD should have made the best of the decade list. :) and yes I just wrote a smiley face. I will blame it on being drunk. again.
I’ve been digging the Black Angels since their past two albums. They were the only act I saw when I was at SXSW this year (film + interactive), but they sounded cool live. Seriously droning guitars, but in a good way.
Man, I like this! Never heard of them before, but this sounds gooooood. Me likey.
Sounds true to Black Angels form (which is not a complaint at all) but I’m looking forward to hearing where else they can take their craft, if leaving the confines of that Austin compound musically shifts them in any way. One difference is the higher clarity of the vocals; more often than not Alex is kinda unintelligible on the vocal-side of things.