LA HELL GANG

En af Chiles fineste exportvarer LA HELL GANG kommer på Loppen og fornøjer os med cool, støvet, psykedelisk rock.

Trioen indspillede i 2009 debutalbummet 'Just What Is Real' på én dag, helt analogt og med vintage-udstyr for at få den helt rigtige retrolyd. I 2014 blev de en del af Mexican Summer-familien, der har udgivet efterfølgeren 'Thru Me Again'.

"Imagine a still oasis on a man-made Martian desert, saturated with rust and red clay. Gravity has shifted slightly, though the atmosphere is warm and dense, and everything around you is moving more slowly than you are used to. You’re just waking up to this world, a realm not entirely beyond your comprehension, but all the same, part of a new reality to contend with and romanticize. Chilean rock trio La Hell Gang’s second album 'Thru Me Again' is the soundtrack to this strange new land."

Thru Me Again’s slow drone soundscapes serve to texture complex feelings into otherwise simple melodic grooves. There’s a clear emphasis here on producing a desert-loving, smoke-filled garage gig aesthetic from beginning to end. The prevalent focus on seedy bass loops carries forward the dark undertones of otherwise rough-yet-fragile melodic highs, balances out the album and keeps us between surprise (they manage to convincingly blend pop and drone) and comfort (since the songs don’t offer any violent structural deviations). It is this consistent and effortless unifying of stoner-rock and psychedelic tropes that makes this album so original while still recognisable.

Læs resten af Sounds and Colours' anmeldelse her (4/5)

DUNE MESSIAH

Bandet har ladet sig inspirere af tidlig Leonard Cohen og country-postpunk bands såsom The Gun Club, Rowland S. Howard og neofolk bands såsom Current 93. Bandnavnet er taget fra den gamle science fiction-klassiker om planeten Dune, der består af sandklitter. Dune Messiahs musik er på samme måde minimalistisk, nøgen og rå som denne planet.