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  • Julie's Haircut 'Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin' - Cargo Records UK

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    Julie's Haircut 'Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin'

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    Julie's Haircut - Italy's premiere psychedelic explorers have created a deep-end approach to sonic innovation that is audible on 'Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin' - their debut release for the great UK label Rocket Recordings.

    Seven albums into a mission initially inspired by the likes of Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3, the band now find themselves at a new plateau of small-hours elucidation and revelation that may summon the spectres of the wayward squall of early Mercury Rev, the shamanic allure of Dead Skeletons, the freedom of Miles Davis, the repetition of Can or the wild soundscapes of Amon Duul II to some, yet essentially sounds like no-one but themselves.

    The result is a record built on trance-like repetition that grows to mantric intensity to summon atmospheric plateaus redolent of the psychic and surreal transgressions of its title - a double-helix tribute to both Frank Zappa and Kenneth Anger.

    Coruscating guitar overload and jazz-tinged blowout collide amidst hypnotic soundscapes like the shamanically inclined The Fire Sermon'and the eleven-minute motorik magnificence of the curtain-raiser Zukunft'.

    Yet atmospheric restraint, glacial texture and immersive groove play as large a part in this blinding and beatific soundworld as droning darkness or overheated amp tubes.

    Tracklisting:
    1.Zukunft
    2. The Fire Sermon
    3. Orpheus Rising
    4. Deluge
    5. Salting Traces
    6. Cycles
    7. Gathering Light
    8. Koan
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  • Julie's Haircut 'In The Silence Electric'

    Rocket Recordings

    Julie's Haircut 'In The Silence Electric'

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    Rocket Recordings

    Julie's Haircut 'In The Silence Electric'

    £11.99

    ‘In The Silence Electric’, the latest record in Julie’s Haircut’s long history of sonic otherworldliness is notable for its deft balance between hypnotic radiance and extrasensory intensity, between beatific calm and palpable anger.

    Yet it’s also a record which has arrived through a strange process of osmosis from a band confident enough to let subconscious and metaphysical aspects steer them in the appropriate directions.

    “We embraced the incidents, letting the songs guide us to their final form rather than trying to force them in a precise direction” confirms the band’s Luca Giovanardi. For all its divings, this is a collection of supremely confident and cohesive ditties that sees the deep-end diabolism and mantric intensity of the Italian-based band’s Rocket debut, 2017’s ‘Invocation And Ritual Dance Of My Demon Twin’ expanded into a righteous fury and incandescent splendour. 

    Whether it’s the heavy-lidded rapture of ‘Lord Help Me Find The Way’ (like Spiritualized transposed to 1970s Berlin), the menacing dream-state of ‘In Return’ or the Suicide-damaged psychic assault that is ‘Sorcerer’, all is subsumed by a bold singularity of intent, amidst a colourful firestorm of electronic monomania, jazz-tinged atonality and indelibly memorable vocal hooks.

    “There’s a theme springing from the title of the record and the (cover) photos of Annegret Soltau that deliver some sense of helplessness, suffocation, difficulty in communication” notes the band’s Luca Giovanardi.

    Yet for all this - and paradoxically enough - ‘In The Silence Electric’ is both this mysterious and rebellious band’s most adventurous and most direct record to date - not to mention an ever more compelling transmission from renowned experts in altered states.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Anticipation Of The Night
    2. Emerald Kiss
    3. Until The Lights Go Out
    4. Lord Help Me Find The Way
    5. Sorcerer
    6. Darlings Of The Sun
    7. In Return
    8. Pharaoh’s Dream
    9. For The Seven Lakes
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