The Warlocks

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The Warlocks

The Warlocks UK tour 2009! Touring their new album 'The Mirror Explodes'.

The Warlocks new LP 'The Mirror Explodes' speaks and whispers from all of these places. But where the band’s last long player, Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, tweaked time in a icy-cool, white-noise swirl that evoked a decadent lysergic night, The Mirror Explodes is disorientation through a longer lens — pictures of luck, longing, losing, moods and fever dreams scrambled in the haze of near and distant memory.

On the 8 songs of The Mirror Explodes, the band’s signature amalgam of White Light/White Heat attack; space panoramas, fuzz, melancholy, and melody is present and potent. But there is vivid focus too. Throbbing bass lines, distant rolling thunder drums, and zombie rattlesnake shake are a heartbeat of strange, ominous vitality. Guitars howl, slash and bounce like light. Bobby Hecksher’s vocals sound oddly alone and unsettlingly intimate all at once. And just when you think you understand the sum of these sonic elements, they become something else entirely..

SUPPORT COMES FROM:

Hatcham Social:

Hatcham Social take their musical cues from the delirious guitar-pop of early 1980's, with the sound of their impossibly urgent guitars are attempting to scratch some deep felt existential itch. Hatcham Socials power lies in their kinetic, propulsive songs.

Behind the fringes and the fairly obviousy admiration for the ethics, morals, tunes and drumming kittens which defined postcard records twenty years ago, there lurks a hardboiled attitude which takes them well out of any previous indie ghetto. The Band bites.