***On Hazy Visions of Bliss, the new instrumental album from solo musician DEAD LUKE (former member of NON TRAVELLIN' BAND, PINK REASON, ZOLA JESUS), the artist takes the listener on a long strange trip across nine blazed and blissed out movements. Straddling a number of genres from pulsating krautrock grooves, to soft new age meditations, to scorching fuzzed out doom, to bongo-spiced garage stomp, to stoned and zoned out acoustic western smoke, Hazy Visions of Bliss takes a number of unexpected turns but holds a deep underlying psychedelic mantra as it's compass - perpetually guiding it forward.
LP $21.95
12/16/2022
***Amidst pilfering of collective bargaining rights, the storming of public buildings in union protests, and subsequent recalls of elected officials, a bubbling of proletariat discontent in Madison, WI has shed light on a region of the country often overlooked. Emerging from this unrest comes DEAD LUKE’s second full-length and first Moon Glyph release, Meanwhile… In The Midwest, which takes the portentously hazy half-songs contained within his debut LP and solidifies them into a raw, lysergic-crystalline acid cocoon. In the album’s final moments we are greeted to the triumphant drifting of “Endless High,” a fuzzed-out call to arms for the No Coast. On “God Of Nothing” Luke conjures a hymnal drone of weaving elements peaking into a self-contained nihilist jam. While harkening back to the nebulous "American Haircut," Luke now unleashes his vexed voice in parallel with a movement currently percolating to a once apathetic surface.
LP $17.50
10/11/2011
MP3 $7.92
10/11/2011