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A continuation of my exploration into Greece music. Each month, the Discovering Interstellar Music feature will explore interesting (to us) music from around the world. This feature publishes every Friday. See also my posts on nefeli walking undercover (Part I), the εἰρκτή compilation (Part II), and Grecian Post Rock (Part III).

I found lots of Psychadelic rock in my brief Grecian foray. Here are some of the especially good ones.

Arrakis

Ammu Dia is their most recent release and it’s available on CD if you need the physical medium. The title track particularly caught my attention as it is almost math rock in substance. It has an almost metal sound happening that reminds me of Rodan. I really quite easily could have clumped some of Arrakis’ material in with last week’s post-rock post. But here it is.

More after the fold…

Craang

Now, this band is all in on the psychadelic with a strong metal influence. They are really quite good, but more purely psychadelic than Arrakis.

And that’s all for now. There is of course more where this comes from. Just me roaming about in the interwebs trying to discern what kinds of good music Greece had to offer. Hopefully yinz enjoyed it.

Coming Next Week: September Focus on … where?

Here’s one to brighten your mood on this lovely Friday. It’d be easy to label “Palace of Love” new-wave and move on, but it really is more than the sum of its parts. Think early-80’s Sprinsteen meets The Stone Roses. Does that make any sense? Probably not in theory, but have a listen and I think you might agree.

Oh hey, time to post another track. Found this one a couple of weeks back. Appropriate, semi-ambient weirdness with some actual vocals. It’s really quite wonderful. And they are on tour too.

Well here’s something to completely offset the good vibes of yesterday’s post. “Night-Time Worker” sounds like a nihilistic, krautrocky take on Flipper’s “Sex Bomb”. One of the best songs I’ve heard in a good while. Evil sax is the best sax.

I went down the Saint Brooklynsburg rabbit hole one day. I really loved this album from the Ghost Hippies. We’ll get to Russia some day on the International Radio Shower i’m sure. Maybe it’ll be on the drunk radio shower.

I know the title says “Matt Annoys Jim”, but I’d really like to pretend I’m doing him a favor by cramming all of these songs into one post instead of spreading them out over the course of a few days. I’m nothing if not the ultimate compromiser. After the jump, a few more songs that have me tapping my feet, and will most likely have another certain poster to the blog rolling his eyes…

The Neon Indian song at the top of the post is off of Vega Intl. Night School, out 10/16 on Mom + Pop.


 – Off of Knockin’ Boots, out now on Broadwalk.


 – Off of the upcoming Easy Life EP.

 – Finally, a video for a tune I already posted about a few weeks back. Product 3 is out 10/23 on Anti.

I went down a rabbit hole a few weeks back and found me the Center of the Sun. Here they are covering Slowdive. Be happy. Be chill.

Last week Matt posted a track from the band New Fries. They not only taste better than old fries, they sound better too. So I was intrigued and listened to more and they had this great new 7″ split with Old & Weird. So good, worth highlighting.

The A Side features two tracks from New Fries. Jazz is great. Nice weird start. Tiltilating, God is My Co-pilot-esque song structure. Adequately weird and catchy. Hard not to love this song completely through to it’s, “damn my needle is spinning on the center of the record rough” closing. Jasz may be spelled almost the same, but it’s quite unique. It is a little more Liliput in sound. It’s grating in a good way and makes me want to shake my hips.

Old & Weird is an interesting band name. Their music is great. Yes I care reminds me of something that m’lady records would release like the Ruby Pins or something. It’s a bit high pitched on the guitar and slanting female vocals. Kirkobain does not sound like Nirvana of course. This is the most straight forward indie rock tune on the single. And it’s really good.

So, if you are looking for something really, really good and a little bit weird at times, this is a fantastic 7″ record. Pick it up. Put it underwater. And play it. Oh yeah, you can buy the record here.

I really like this band Eux Autres I’ve recently discovered. They have this nice indie pop thing going. It’s somewhat reminiscent of Dressy Bessy for me.