![]() Prog pop has crossed over with even more popular artists, like The Anchoress, Laura Meade, Field Music, Spellling and St. This year, I’ve noted 62 albums that fit that descriptor, and some of the artists even self-identify with that tag in their Bandcamp pages and Spotify bios, including some names that have crossed over slightly into the mainstream, Howlin Rain and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Psych prog may not be a genre tag that is recognized widely, but more artists than ever are exploring that territory that first flourished in 1968-72, when psychedelic bands began to reach for greater heights. A fair number of metal albums certainly addressed this theme with convincing urgency, but this is what I preferred to listen to the most. It’s unusual for the same band to have the album of the year two years in a row, but that’s just how it worked out, at least here at Rancho Bulboso. Clearly, we are too dumb, selfish and greedy to avoid an extinction event, so now the only question is when it will happen, not if. It’s appropriate that the album of the year, Motorpsycho’s Kingdom of Oblivion, is a vision of a post-humanity earth. So as much as I’d like to say “we” survived another year, many didn’t. So here we are, 5,267,503 total deaths worldwide and counting, and as of late November, more deaths in 2021 than the year before. Many of the poorer countries would continue to suffer deaths, and they got to watch a bunch of entitled asshole American anti-vaxxers refuse the vaccines. There was hope that the pandemic could be over by Spring, at least in many countries. We were getting rid of a garbage President, and vaccinations had begun. This time last year there was cautious hope. After a week off the grid we returned to civilization with hours of recordings inspired by volcano eruptions, sub-sea adventures and the raw power of the surrounding sea.Top 100 Albums of 2021 | Spotify Mix | 2021 Breakdown: Genre Lists | Reissues | New Old Discoveries | Singles | Videos | Movies | Television | Books The epic commentaries of Herzog and Cousteau were included in the jams to add to the vibe, and some of the sounds are still present on the final record. In our coffee breaks we were watching documentaries like ‘Into the Inferno’ by Werner Herzog and old explorer series by Captain Jacques Cousteau and the rest of the crew at the Calypso. The wild nature was omnipresent and could not be ignored as jam sessions got more intense and songs started to materialise. ![]() “Our only audience were the seagulls and some lost bird-watchers wondering where these strange noises were coming from,” the band recall: “We were surrounded by an unusually quiet ocean, almost eyeballing us waiting for the next eruption. Here, they spent a week jamming day and night in the island’s lighthouse. Returning to London-based label Fuzz Club for the ‘Horizons’ LP, Electric Eye first started working on the new album back in June 2018 when they retreated to Utsira, a small island located 70km off the coast of Norway and surrounded by notoriously unpredictable and tough waters. They’ve also shared stages with the likes of Michael Rother (Neu), Wire, Hawkwind and Endless Boogie and played at a number of international festivals, including Roskilde, The Great Escape, Eurosonic, Icelandic Airwaves and two stops at SXSW. ‘Horizons’, their fourth full-length to date, is the follow-up to the Bergen-based band’s critically acclaimed 2017 LP, ‘From The Poisonous Tree.’ Since forming in 2012, Electric Eye have released three studio albums and two live albums and toured heavily around Scandinavia, Europe, the UK, the Middle East, Japan and the US. To quote the famous French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau, Electric Eye’s ‘Horizons’ LP sees the Norweigian psych-rock group venture into the depths of “a different kind of music, the sounds from the ocean floor.” Spending a week locked away from civilization in a lighthouse on the tiny Norwegian island of Utsira, Electric Eye’s new album ‘Horizons’ – due out November 5th on Fuzz Club Records – is a record “inspired by volcano eruptions, sub-sea adventures and the raw power of the surrounding sea.” The result is an album of oceanic psychedelic rock wig-outs that submerge the listener in a whirlpool of hypnotic space-rock, kosmische garage-blues, dystopian acid-prog and experimental electronics. ![]() Order the vinyl here: /products/electric-eye-horizons
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