Batten down the hatches, The Cosmic Dead will be bringing their sonic tsunami to the US with a vinyl repress of the band’s self-titled 2011 2xLP debut. Hailing from Glasgow, this bombastic psych quartet comes stateside with the help of Captcha Records and the UK’s Cardinal Fuzz label. As Captcha boss Benjamin Funke tells it, he hit up the guys in White Manna, asking the Arcata, CA group for the dibs on the best band they’d played with [contextly_sidebar id=”N3LdW62WZseDXLcLDS7ZlC9FWEx2NEfJ”]during their recent tour of the UK and Europe. White Manna’s totally rad Pan LP came out this spring via the label, so you can bet these cats had the inside scoop. Turns out the band was in unanimous agreement that Scotland’s The Cosmic Dead had totally blown their wigs. With that, Benjamin was on the phone talking to his British compatriots in all things psychedelic, Cardinal Fuzz, plotting the re-release of the group’s 80-minute debut opus.
Today, we give a listen to the heady “Spice Melange Spectrum“, which is one of only four tracks on this massive 2xLP–the album’s closer, “Father Sky Mother Earth” stretches across a whole album on it’s own. Compact, then, by comparison, with a running time just over six minutes, the track dolls out an elemental brand of stoner rock with brutish abandon! Probably not the kind of guys you wanna meet huffing glue in a dark alley, The Cosmic Dead’s thuggish low end and pounding rhythms churn like lava on this cut, as guitars sculpt jet propulsion into shimmering walls of scorched sound. This vinyl repress of The Cosmic Dead is due out September 26th, and is only available in the US. Limited to a scant 500 copies, you better cop this wicked pill while it’s still around!
