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Telstar Sound Drone - Jaegerklause Berlin Jan 2014 (2015)

Telstar Sound Drone's first album landed in 2013 (our full thoughts on that one can be found here), defining the band's incredibly heavy and psychedelic sound with its space-warping power.  The band is still hard at work on the follow-up album, which we're told will be arriving around the end of this year, but in the interim they've released this four-track live EP to tide over the slavering fans.  In addition to three of their own tracks, done up in lavish form, they've included a cover of "Hurricane Fighter Plane" (which I'd come to associate it with Alien Sex Fiend, given how many times their cover showed up on Cleopatra Records compilations, but now find is originally attributed to The Red Crayola).  

Rich resonance, vibratory feedback, and echoing vocals give the music its primary characteristics, and while the audience is largely swamped out of audibility by the tornadoes of sound, they voice their approval enthusiastically in the moments between songs.  Fans of the band will be happy to find that all of the usual magic is there, plus a little extra improvisation to go with the setting, and those who haven't dipped an ear into the act yet will find this a nice place to start.  Either way, Telster Sound Drone are doing just fine out there, and though the EP is currently digital-only, you can certainly let Bad Afro Records know if you feel it deserves physical release.
~ Gabriel

For Fans Of;    Mondo Drag, MC5, A Place To Bury Strangers, Moon Curse, JETDOG

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Telstar Sound Drone - Feels Like A Ride (320 kbps)

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Beneath The Waves...

Telstar Sound Drone - Comedown (2013)

Comedown originally came out last year, and in the time since then, the album's built up enough surrounding buzz for Bad Afro Records to justify putting out a second pressing.  In case you didn't catch the original release, and you want to know why you should be interested, we'll begin with the question of how much you enjoy psychedelic rock.  If the answer to that question is positive, however you want to qualify it, then you'd do well to check into Telstar Sound Drone's musical output, which seethes with the tune-tied feedback of the most infamous '60s psych acts.  The songs don't so much play as drift into deep valleys, pushed whichever way the resonating tones want them, until the next track rises up into audibility and asserts its own groove.
It's really beyond me to try and describe just how fluid they make their music as the album moves through its paces, but touches used in addition to ~99% feedback settings on their pedals include a high-distortion rain-stick, persistent-echo vocals, and strangely-powerful background drifts of synths, while trying to figure out how they approached composing the songs just leads to one of those moments in which you shake your head in impressed disbelief.  They've put together a powerful and incredibly cohesive chunk of psychedelic digression, one which will cement the Telstar Sound Drone name in the minds of any open-minded psychedelic rock fan who takes the time to listen.
~ Gabriel

For Fans Of;    Earth, Salem's Pot, Wicked Lady, The Maze, 13th Floor Elevators

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Telstar Sound Drone - Evaporation (320 kbps)

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