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The Kings Of Frog Island
Reviews label: Elektrohasch The Kings of Frog Island have a deep understanding of rock and roll from another time. Their songwriting will effortlessly carry you back to the 60s and 70s. You can here classic rock sounds that have since become dubbed “stoner.” You can hear quiet, moody, ballady stuff. You can even here a slight summoning of the doors. A lot of stoner bands are just stoner bands but then a lot use that sound as a way of moving retro to the old school world of psychedelic rock and roll. The Kings of Frog Island do that and even in the midst of channeling a sound of yesterday they conjure some personality so that while they sound like a mix of a number of bands of years past, there aren’t really any bands that sound like The Kings of Frog Island. review written by: Upchuck Undergrind from: www.fishcomcollective.net
Oh yeah, Heavypsyche and skillfully between age-old and elements quite up-to-date oscillating, so that sometimes one cannot say whether those could not also thus have sounded to volume before 35 years. MONSTERS MAGNET were never more so geil and fresh since its 1991er "Spine OF God" album. Already the first two Songs killen everything. Howling, dreckelige Leads is applauded around the ears continuous wildly with the Opener the listener, that it is a true joy. Heavier as hell and hotter than enormous lead mountains or also in reverse, THE KINGS OF FROG ISLAND are the hammer. In addition, they play their Heavypsyche usually very with high energy and attacking, know, when it is best, to take the speed out in favor of a benebelnden atmosphere and to exchange also the hardness of the distorted Klampfen against the gentle depth of a acoustic guitar. It passes which with the British. Many the aggressive Grooves are clear from newer design, while in the gently flowing parts clearly the Flower power times breaks through. It holds itself the balance. THE KINGS OF FROG ISLAND know to drive skillfully the majestic monotonousness from Doom and space skirt to a musical high point specialsame to play a passage perfectly hypnotisch again and again and to let it sound nevertheless fresh. They continue as MONSTERS MAGNET or KYUSS ever went, more 60's and 70's, more authentically first of all. One will not be able to umstimmen a purists of the music at that time so easily, but they are close to. And these betoerenden melodies of singing or guitar come again and again, also from both parties if necessarily. A Groover like "Amphibia" with continuous, swearing to Beats and wild Soli shifts you into a condition of perfect Trance, lets you a Veitztanz specify, after whose end you will sink perfectly exhausted to soil. This Leads, such uncontrolled guitar parts I for a long time did not hear. Killer! In the reason one can put this disk of all fans of the "Spine OF God" to the heart, which best MONSTERS MAGNET album, whereby the British partially psychedelischer, melodischer zuwerke go. Their Hymnen does not have both volume and that too scarcely. For psyche/space Freaks, which wants to test 70's things beside that also times ingenious current of volume, is that here a Offenbahrung. There Elektrohasch Stefan made again a good catch. Fat a Vinyl is only missing.
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bands with Whisky Room Forum - Music - The Kings Of Frog Island, I've started this as a thread as i'd like to know if anyone has any info of upcoming gigs etc in the UK? KINGS OF FROG ISLAND, The (ex Josiah) Vinyl Magic - The Kings Of Frog Island crash landed the game during the summer heat of 2003. The Kings Of Frog Island crash landed the game during the summer heat of 2003. Mark Buteaux (Guitars) and Dodge Watson (Percussions) had laid down three or four open ended grooves together at Amphibia Sound just for the hell of it. Enter Josiah front man Mat Bethancourt (Guitars, Vocals and Bass) to work on some demo recordings with Mark, The Kings Of Frog Island are born. Drawing on a collective passion for cult movie soundtracks and mammoth riffs the Kings had some high times making this, their eponymous debut album. Stashed full of heavy psych rock and fragile laments to love, life and the eternal sleep. This album is truly a rollercoaster ride across the mountains of madness, beyond the beyond to the shores of Frog Island and the gates of Amphibia. Come take a trip……….. Stoner Rock.com - The Kings of Frog IslandThis healthy serving of psychedelia has one foot placed in the late 60s/early 70s, and another foot placed just as confidently in the 90s era of Kyuss and early Monster Magnet. This album takes these familiar sounds and breaths new life into them, offering a wide variety of colours from track to track. If this sounds like your cup of tea, read on: The Tracks: 1. Everybody’s Gonna Lose their Heads. Starting with an ominous throbbing baseline and some choice bluesy licks, this tune literally explodes out of the gate with some blistering psychedelic licks, and then an anthemic chorus that you won’t forget quickly. . Duel fuzzy leads intertwine, and overdubbed leads ratchet up the power which mellows into some post-orgasmic fuzz and a final burst. There should be a link to an mp3 for this tune earlier in this thread. Check it out. 2. The Longest Hour: This tune is by far the most overtly desert of the bunch. A low heavy power riff and some nice echoing cymbal works leading into vocals and chorus that would not sound out of place on “And the Circus Left Town” A long, slow fade, accompanied by some acoustic rhythm guitar and a sustained chorus gives is a QOTSA feel. The use of cymbals (and panning) is very effective, and atmospheric. The first two cuts of this album stand out as singles—the rest of the album, sandwiched by Leone, has a more interrelated feel to it. 3. Leone . This is a haunting acoustic instrumental with more impressionistic cymbal work. 4. The River: Another acoustic tune, but this one has vocals. It sounds like one of the best acoustic ballads the MM never recorded, and the vocals have a bit of a Wyndorf feel to them. Some fuzzed out accompaniment kicks in as the chorus gains in power. This is a really effective, moving song. 5. Slate Blue Sky: An acoustic rhythmic guitar intro leads into a sleek groove with a very supple baseline and chattering cymbals, and this turns into a tune with very powerful pop hooks. The chorus is wonderfully anthemic, and there is a baroque feel to the fuzzy guitar parts that really kicks. Layers of overdubbed vocals lift this tune in the stratosphere, and the outro really does have that “you’re in a cathedral” sound. 6. Psychomania: It’s time to rock your ass off. This one starts dirty and nasty, with a .. heavy groove with some serious hendrixy fuzzy soloing going on. And on. And on! 2:20 before the vocals kick in! The bass riff and chorus remind me of bit of “Freedom”, and at 6:31 my only regret is that this tune isn’t longer. 7. Amphibia: A Tribal drumbeat, and some very tasteful twangy soloing in the opening introduces a classic 60s instrumental, with a scatted chorus that is very effective. (ooh-oohs.) . About the 2:06 mark a very clean, skillful solo (still twangy, not fuzzy), that opens new ground, and the drumming takes on a martial feel. . This is a great Instrumental tune that I have to confess I needed to listen to five times before moving on to the next cut. 8. Save Me. Another strong rocker with sharp hooks, that after rocking you around for a couple minutes, throws you suddenly into a very haunting acoustic bridge with eerie wordless eastern flavored vocals and very spacy cymbal work. (Yes, the use of cymbals is consistently inventive throughout…) This builds to a climax, and suddenly your back into the tune, careening to the end. 9. Beyond the Revolution: This has some of the “look and feel” from MM’s Cage around the Sun or some of their other early work. It builds up in layers, as the driving rhythmic acoustic part is increasingly amplified by layers of screaming electric, fuzzed out bliss, with some nice snippets of soloing mixed into the fray. 10. Leone reprise: This has to be a classy way to put in a “hidden track”. After Beyond the revolution fades, there is about 30 seconds of silence, and then the acoustic instrumental Leone is reprised, ending with a final echoing cymbal clash. Listen - (can take upto a minute before song starts)
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