Fuzzy Sun on Hiatus

Everything needs a break and so does Fuzzy Sun. I started this website a couple of years back for fun and with a passion for psychedelic rock and noiserock and in these years I discovered so much awesome music, bands and people. But life is kinda busy and it was getting difficult to combine Fuzzy Sun with normal life so I decided it is a time for a break. When will i start again? In six months? In a year? in 50? Don’t know yet.

Anyhow, it was fun. I will keep this website on air for now and ofcourse I can’t end without another list and ofcourse it is a list with my favourite noiserock and psychedelic rock. For the lazy fucks out there I put everything in a Spotify List too. So here goes, a list with the stuff i liked most since I started Fuzzy Sun.

Gnod

Gnod has released quite a lot of music, experimental stuff, weirdo music and electronic stuff but what blow me completeley away was their noiserockalbum ‘Chapel Perilious’. Favourite track: ‘Donovan’s Daughters’. They are also in the middle of releasing a new album ‘La Mort Du Sense’ which i will paste here too because Gnod rules.

Tonstartssbandht

‘Sorcerer’ may well be one of my most listened psych albums. There is so much magic in their music, it is refreshing and original. They are in my duo list too. The brothers are working on a new album and have the first track out. I will paste this one here too.

Favourite track: Breathe

Daughters

Well, this album is extremely amazing and I don’t think anyone would argue that.

Favourite track: Ocean Song

Xiu Xiu

A very weird band with albums that vary a lot, always experimental and weird. Favourite track: ‘Wondering’

Beak

Ofcourse Beak> has to be on this. Trippy kraut music with a lot of layers. Favourite track: ‘When We Fall’.

Qujaku

And here is my favourite Japanese band! I saw Qujaku live once and was completely blown away by their mix of noise, doom and heavy psych. Favourite track: ‘Kagamie’

You can find Qujaku on The Cosmic Side of Japan.

Prana Crafter

you can just visualize the nutare and the beauty when listening to Prana Crafter. ‘Enter The Stream’ is, I believe, the only album with vocals and it is stunning. Favourite track: ‘Enter The Stream’

Girl Band

If you talk about experimental and loud music then you talk about Girl Band, awesome and destructive, unsettling and wild. Favourite track: ‘Going Norway’.

Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様

There is going to be a lot of Japanese music on here and there is nothing you can do about it. Kikagaku Moyo is a collective of psych/kraut musicians that make chill and trippy music.

USA/MEXICO

If USA/Mexico would be a smell it would be smell of asphalt. You know its all wrong but the black gunk smells good.

Favourite track: ‘Matamoros’

All Them Witches

All Them Witches is a must for me, their bluesy psychedelic desert rock always hits me right in the feels.

Youff

Extremely chaotic noiserock from Ghent, Belgium.

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt contains more caffeïne then 50 cups of espresso.

Osees

So much choice in which album I could share by the most famous psych band in the cosmos and I chose the weirdest album. Can’t help it.

Part Chimp

The return of the UK riff legends.

Black Shape

Riffs, Riffs and more riffs. 45 minutes long riffing with really cool lyrics and vocals.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE

Another Japanese band and one of the founding fathers of Japanese psych. Wityh a constant stream of new music it was difficult to make a choice but ‘Reverse Of Rebirth In Universe’ spoke to me the most.

Chat Pile

‘Remove Your Skin’ is both brutal and destructive, it is unique in its own way. it is evil. If you want to be a hipster it is good to recommend this to friends.

Locean

‘Top Ten Zen Meditations’ is weird new wave experimental psych stuff. No idea what it is but its damn cool.

Thank

I can’t sit still while listening to this, but I can’t dance either, I jsut stand weirdly in the room.

Naujawanan Baidar

Traditional Afghan sounds mixed with modern psych.

Dirty Junk

wild and crazy, ridiculously heavy.

Favourite track: “Hatchu”

France

Repetitive and highly psychedelic. To completely trip away and never to turn back.

The Armed

The ever mysterious band The Armed delivered something spectacular with their new album ‘Ultrapop’.

Moon Pussy

There is a certain groove to the noiserock of Moon Pussy. Its goddamn catchy noiserock.

Mong Tong

Two brothers sampling weird sounds through traditional Taiwanese music. gorgeous stuff.

Blom

Relentless and Intense. one of my favourite UK bands

Lilac

And extremely powerful debut album by these noisepunkers.

Alex Maas

Alex, vocalist for The Black Angels, made a solo album full of psychelic folk.

Shifting

Truly exceptional noiserock from Dublin

Population II

funky and trippy psych by the Montreal band Population II.

SLANT

In your face hardcore punk from this South Korean band.

REPTOID

.ONE MAN NOISEROCK DEITY.

Tropical Fuck Storm

TFS makes really good garage/psych stuff and they are on my Australian list.

BIG|BRAVE (+BIG|BRAVE with The Body)

The vocals are spectacular, both on their EP ‘Vital’ as the more drone/folk album with The Body.

Modern Technology

Another duo, these two probably went studying in The School of the Distorted Riff.

Metz

No noiserock list without Metz.

Pink Room

Nasty, Belgian rocknnoise. In your face garagetrash. Wild Unfermented Punk.

White Suns

There is a big difference between noise and noiserock and White Suns is one of the few that can shift with ease between these two genres. ‘the lower way’ is epic.

Gaffa Bandana

 Gaffa Bandana is the duo Gill Dread (Bruxa Maria) and Jennie Howell (SO3EK, Sleeping Creatures, Gorse. Expect extremely heavy riff fueled noiserock.

Dusty Mush

Experimental psych and fuzz at its best by the French Dusty Mush.

Alexis Marshall

Alexis Marshall (Daughters) released his own solo album ‘House of Lull. House of When’. And it is a poetic mix of industrial, spoken word and experimentalism.

Pure Adult

A powerfull and experimental noiserock and punk band.

Amyl and the Sniffer

‘Comfort To Me’ is the best punk album of 2021. easy.

Cherubs share second song from ‘SLO BLO 4 FRNZ & SXY’

After a two decade hiatus noiserock trio Cherubs returned in 2014 and they released 2 Ynfynyty in 2015, a split with Gay Witch Abortion in 2016 and the Fist in The Air EP in 2016. In  2019 they released the excellent album ‘Immaculada High’.

Now they are going to release a new EP called ‘SLO BLO 4 FRNZ & SXY’ which will be released in October. The first track is called ‘Lazy Snakes’ and now the second one is out and it is called ‘A Pair of Pear Tarts’ and i don’t know what to say except that it is Cherubs at their best. Gorgeous noise and riffs in your face.

https://www.facebook.com/CherubsTX/

Cherubs release ‘SLO BLO 4 FRNZ & SXY’

After a two decade hiatus noiserock trio Cherubs returned in 2014 and they released 2 Ynfynyty in 2015, a split with Gay Witch Abortion in 2016 and the Fist in The Air EP in 2016. In  2019 they released the excellent album ‘Immaculada High’.

Now they are going to release a new EP called ‘SLO BLO 4 FRNZ & SXY’ which will be released in October. The first track is called ‘Lazy Snakes’ and is again a gorgeous dose of noise in your face.

https://www.facebook.com/CherubsTX/

Favourite music of July 2021

Its the middle of the summer and their has been another peak in corona cases, there have been floods and heat waves, species are going extinct, the rich are getting richer, forest fires and the climate is still changing and stuff like that but fear not! I have a list of the best music of this July that can take away all your troubles. Tune in and blow all your misery away.

PRO TIP: press play on more then one bandcamp for your own mix of hellish noise

The best albums according to Ralph Schaarschmidt (TRIGGER CUT, Buzz Rodeo)

It is list season! I am not really a big Christmas person but I do love list season.I already made my end of the year list but this year I decided that one list is not enough. So you can expect two lists from Fuzzy Sun writers Brad and Ryne and now you will get a list from the great Ralph Schaarschmidt whom you know from his work in Buzz Rodeao and Trigger Cut. Be sure to check out the two new tracks from the upcoming album from Trigger Cut named ‘ROGO’. Ralph also made 5 part collection of the best noiserock and postpunk wich you can check out here. But now ofcourse you are here for the best of 2020 according to our friend Ralph. Dig in!

Moon Pussy – Moon Pussy

Hoaries – Rocker Shocker

The Domains – Enter

Adulkt Life – Book of Curses

Carnival Crash – It Is A Happy Man

Patois Counselors – The Optimal Seat

The Hammer Party – Smashed Hits

Twisted Ankle – Twisted Ankle

Lié – You Want It Real

Trainer – Athletic Statics

Ryoki Center – Strychnine

Sky Furrows – Sky Furrows

Live Skull – Dangerous Visions

USA Nails – Character Stop

Blacklisters – Fantastic Man

UK GOLD -Epigram No. 2

Exhalants – Atonement

Shifting – It Was Good

June of 44 – Revisionist: Adaptations & Future Histories In The Time Of Love And Survival

New Primals – Horse Girl Energy

Alpha Hopper – Alpha Hex Index

Fuzzy Sun – The 50 best releases of 2020

The year is almost finished and it is time for my end of the year list, made by myself with extreme care. This list contains my favourite music of the year and is about 50 releases long. It was very difficult to make a selection but I really tried to add only the stuff I thought was exceptionally good and so ended with a really long list but I could not delete more bands, I just could not.

As you probably know this lists contains mostly Noiserock and Psychedelic rock and things that fit in between. Their is some very intense and heavy stuff but also some trippy chill hypnotic tunes although I believe this list is heavier then other years.

If there are bands on this you haven’t heard off I strongly suggest you check them out and that you buy the stuff you like to support the artists because they can use it in this sucky year.  Most of the links are bandcamp links so if you click it you can buy straight of the bandcamp page. 

I hope this list will make your end of 2020 a bit better, warmer, noisier and trippy.

Oh Sees

Ah Yes, Oh Sees or Thee Oh Sees or Osees or one of these names. One of my favourite bands on the planet. They have released three albums this year and all three of them are awesome and some tracks are more chill and kraut others are wild garage and psych.

Shifting

Extremly awesome Irish noiserock. Easily one of the better noiserock records of the year.

Population II

Quebec rockers Population II released their album on Castle Face Records (the label from John Dwyer from Thee Oh Sees) and it is a refreshing take on Kraut and psych and instantly one of my favourites of the year.

Reptoid

Jordan Sobolew is Reptoid. Reptoid is Jordan Sobolew. Reptoid is a one man noiserock deity. Reptoid is pure, raw, industrial tinged heaviness. ‘WORSHIP FALSE GOD’ is Godlike noise.

Metz

‘Atlas Vending’ is a bit different then their previous albums but they are as ferocius as ever and this album may even be more evolved. Metz is one of the leading noiserock bands in the universe and with this album they have proven it again.

Mong Tong

Mong Tong 夢東 are a trio from Taiwan with  the Brothers Hom Yu and Jiun Chi  who also play in ​Prairie WWWW​ (落差草原 WWWW) and Dope Purple. And now they released their new album ‘Mystery’ on Guruguru Brain. influenced by scifi/horror flicks and filled with samples and Taiwanese influences this album is extremely original and a fun listen from start to finish. They have released two albums this year, the latest one ‘Corps of light’ is more meditative and ambient. 

Blóm

Fast, wild, noisy and in your face punknoise. A very cool sonic rollercoaster. Listen to it and tell your friends and pets.

Locean

‘Top Ten Zen Meditations’ is all about amosphere, feelings, and intensity but it is most of all a very layered album wich makes you discover new dimensions with each listen. A brilliant album!

Napalm Death

I guess everyone knows who Napalm Death is. But this album, good lord, this album is goooood.

Moon Pussy

This is some groovy noiserock, riffs that wanne make you wanne wiggle. Buy it, you get a Cookbook with it too.

France

This is the most hypnotic album of the year. carefull if you press play, you can easily lose yourself for an hour or two.

Dirty Junk

Very dirty music, very very dirty.

Modern Technology

Riffs so heavy and slow it is difficult to do something else then lay on the ground and you let it destroy you.

Exhalants

Exhalants are intense and do not dissapoint. Very awesome riffs that keep on giving.

BENT ARCANA

The band is John Dwyer, Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Kyp Malone, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas, Marcos Rodriguez, Laena “Geronimo” Myers-Ionita, Joce Soubiran and Andres Renteria. Together they make this jazzy and krauty stuff that is really nice for the ears.

Bruges

Bruges creates a very eerie atmosphere on their new records, one that easily grips you vy the balls and does not loosen.

Fuzz

Ty Segal and his buds made this really cool records that filled with heavy psych and garage with some winks to Black Sabbath.

Couch Slut

Fast paces, riff fueled noiserock of the highest order. Wild!

Pretty Lightning

Always been a fan of Pretty Lightning, their hypnotic tunes are very good in their louder strongs as in their softer tracks.

Black Pus

lack Pus is a one man band, and that one man is Brian Chippendale (you know, the drummer of Lightning Bolt). And he is back with a new album that is called ‘Def Vesper’ wich is a series of improvised songs, first thought/best thought, recorded over a few days from 2/18-2/28/20 on a Tascam 424 cassette 4 track.

Alex Maas

Frontman Alex Maas of The Black Angels released his first solo album called ‘Luca’ and it is a gorgeous psychedelic folk album.

Blacklisters

‘Fantiastic Man’ is a fantastic album. I said it.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

‘K.G.’ is a really good psych album and I am really glad we got at least on king Gzzard this year. 

Gary, Indiana

This newish trio has only three songs out yet but it sounds so promising it has to be on this list. 

Bruxa Maria

Noiserock so loud that is almost grindcore.

Casual Nun

Not so casual rock, filled with psych and noiserock. Cooler than you or your friends.

Cower

The humans in this new band called Cower are also known from the other bands they play in, Gareth Thomas plays in USA Nails/Silent Front, Wayne Adams in Petbrick/Death Pedals/Big Lad and Thomas Lacey in Yards/The Ghost Of A Thousand. Together they mix new wave, gothic and noiserock.

Kooba Tercu

Tribal and ominous. Kooba Tercu can mold sounds into something very psychedelic and intense.

The Psychotic Monks

The French band has proven yet again how strong their songwriting is on their new album ‘Private Meaning First’.

Luminous Bodies

Luminous Bodies (Terminal Cheesecake, Part Chimp, We Wild Blood, MGF, Melting Hand and Gum Takes Tooth)  released “Nah Nah Nah Yeh Yeh Yeh” on Box Records and is deranged rock for deranged people.

Frankie and the Witch Fingers

Frankie and the Witch Fingers make fast paced garage and psychedelic rock and are getting better eacht time they release something. 

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Thunderous riffs, stoner and noise on this great new record by PigsX7.

USA NAILS

The notoriously hard to google London band USA NAILS returns with their noisy postpunk wich offers eleven tracks of furious and noisy punk.

Michael

Michael is made up mostly of Bad Guys, Notorious Hi-Fi Killers, Hag, Lucozade, Black Shape and Princess Headbutt members. give it a spin, you will be addicted instantly.

Fake Indians

Fake Indians are a band from Antwerp, Belgium with and insane level of rocknroll, heavy fuzz and punk atmosphere. “The Pest” is one of those albums that is impossible to pin down, to much energy, to much of a fuck you.

All Them Witches

All Them Witchers is one of these bands that are always good for me, the music from All Them Witches always swings between psychedelic rock, blues rock and stoner and it is always good in my opinion. I always love their softer tracks too, on most albums you get a track like that and this time we get ‘Everest’ and ‘Children of Coyote Woman’

Eye Flys

Long ango I listenened mostly to metal but for years now I have been listening mostly to psych and noiserock and here and there some metal albums but I have to say this Eyes Flys band with members of Full of Hell, Backslider and Triac and stuff brings it all back for me. This is just no nonsense riffing heaviness. 

DEAD

“Raving Drooling” is an album made of riffs, riffs that we need, that you need, riffs that i am pretty sure could save us against the virus, they are so heavy and dense they could level a building with the first chord of the first track. 

S.H.I.T.

S.H.I.T. makes really really dirty hardcore punk, the kind that sounds vomity and agressive

SEX SWING

Type II” is out on Rocket Recordings! The album by Sex Swing (members an contributers from Mugstar, Bonnacons of a Doom, Part Chimp, Dethscalator, Earth, Dead Neanderthalls and Idles and who the hell knows who else) is released and is a ominous feast. The music Sex Swing makes is something in the psych/noise/postpunk spectrum but it is pretty bleak, their is an unnerving atmopshere throughout the whole album

Raspberry Bulbs

Well this is quite something, this NY band is called Raspberry Bulbs and makes the most dirty punk and noiserock I have heard in a while. Their music is raw, catchy and really really dirty. Their new album “Before The Age of Mirrors” is freshly released and contains 13 tracks of singalong heaviness, you can just feel the fuck you punk attitude dripping of this record.

Wasted Shirt

It is not so surprising that this new album “Fungus II” by Wasted Shirt (Ty Segall and Brian Chippendale) is extremely enjoyable. These are two are masterperformers and original rockers that have released a crapload of awesome music in the past. Put these two together and you get some kind of fast paced noise and garagerock. This LP is superfast and superfun to listen to.

Crowd of Chairs 

Very intense Belgian noiserock!

HEADS.

Heads. released their new album ‘Push’. This German trio has upped their game it seems after their previous album ‘Collider’. This album is a perfect dose of noiserock and postpunk. The chaos and agressive guitars combine perfect with the vocals. This album is really strong, the sound quality is superb and the tracks alternate between brutal and eerie postpunk.

Lovely Wife

Ominous drone and saxy sound + evil vocals. Yes Please.

Mummise Guns

Mummise Gunes is made of members of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Terminal Cheesecake, Luminous Bodies, Casual Nun, GHOLD, Black Shape, and Michael. I expected a lot and I got a lot.

Human Worth Vol I and II

The first release from Human Worth kinda blew my mind.  The label put together and incredible list of artists that each gave a track, a new one or an unreleased one or an older one. The compilation is to raise money for the Trussell Trust, to help support the food banks and people who need their support at this time of crisis.

Now only shortly after the release of the first volume (and the new album by Modern Technoly, wich is immense) we got the second volume. Now all proceeds for the second record are going to Harmless (To provide support, information, training and consultancy to people who self harm, their friends, families and professionals). 

Cronies

New York Cronies make noiserock infused with heavy psychedelia. They have not only released a new EP, they have fited us two!

Modulator II

very fuzzed out French heavy psych.

Skiska Skooper 

Fuzzed out Belgian heaviness!

Favourite tracks of September

Good Month, yes, pretty good month. Want to hear my favourite tracks of September? Yes? Yes, good, tune in then.

Hominid’s 2019

If you don’t know the label Hominid Records you are missing out. The labels releases some pretty damn cool music now and then. Experimental stuff, noiserock and just immens riffing coolness. Black Shape even ended on number 5 of my best of list of 2019.

Listen now and maybe buy it, then your money goes to the local homeless charity Single Homeless Project www.justgiving.com/fundraising/not-so-black-friday

Bit of a bummer that there is a dog on the picture. I’m more of a cat person.

https://www.facebook.com/hominidsounds/

PART VI, The Final Part: The best 150+ Noise Rock/Postpunk releases of the last decades. Selected by Ralph Schaarschmidt (TRIGGER CUT, Buzz Rodeo) + Ralphs Top 10 of 2019.

Welcome the the last part of this series. This is part VI. At the end of the list you will find……. another list. This list is the best of list of 2019 from Ralph himself.

This list is curated by the great Ralph Schaarschmidt (TRIGGER CUT / BUZZ RODEO) and here and there some extra bands selected from myself. For those to lazy to search for the other parts on the website, you can find the first part HERE, the second HERE and the third HERE and fourth HERE and the fifth HERE.

351. Usa Nails—Life cinema

https://www.facebook.com/usanailsband

352. Unsane  – Scattered smothered and covered

https://www.facebook.com/UNSANENYC/

353. Us Maple– Long hair in 3 stages

354. USA Mexico – Matamoros

https://www.facebook.com/USAMexico-898437733523323/

355. U Men – Step on a bug

356. Uzeda – Different section wires

357. Unwound – New plastic ideas

358. Unrest – Kustom Karnal

359. Victims Family  – White Bread Blues

360. Wreck – Soultrain

361. Yound Widows – Old wounds

362. Wilderness – Vessel states

363. Wire – Pink flag

364. Wrens – Secaucus

365. Vincas – Deep in the well

https://www.facebook.com/vincasband/

366. 100 Flowers—100 Flowers

367. We are the Asteroid—S/T

368. World Domination Enterprises  Lets play domination

369. 3 – Dark days coming

370. Wrangler Brutes – Zulu

371. 18 Dye – Tribute to a bus

371. Yell o yell- hello hell

372. Windsor for the derby – calm hades float

373. Whep – Whelp

https://www.facebook.com/wheptx/

374. Voycheck – #F_ckingProfessional

https://www.facebook.com/voycheck

375. Whores. – Ruiner

https://www.facebook.com/whrsband/

376. Xetas – The Tower

https://www.facebook.com/xetasrule/

377. Yowie – Synchromysticism

https://www.facebook.com/Yowie-351414864229/

378. YC-CY – Béton Brut

https://www.facebook.com/YC-CY-470917736376620/

379. Qui – Love’s Miracle

380. Yes I’m Leaving – Pure Joy

https://www.facebook.com/yesimleaving/

381. Zeni Geva – Desire for agony

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU MADE IT TO THE END OF THIS LIST BUT THERE IS ANOTHER LIST UNDER THIS LIST. RALPH SCHAARSCHMIDT GIVES US HIS TOP 10 OF 2019.

Raslp selected these ten bands of 2019.

Cherubs – Immaculada

Pinko – you & you

Luggage – Shift

Childbite – Blow off the Omens

Buildings – Negative Sound

Gloop – Smiling Lines

Hissing Tiles – Boychoir

Uzeda – Quocumque jesceris stabit

USA Nails -Life cinema

Multicult – Simultaneity now

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Favourite track of October

 

Hup, another month down the drain. One month closer to our death. Joy! feast upon the best tracks of October.

Kungens Män to release second album this year

‘CHEF’ was the latest album by the Stockholm based cosmic musicians. Kungens Män really put down a magnificent piece of work with ‘CHEF’ and it is going to end in my end of the year list as well.

So what I did not expect was another Kungens Män record in 2019. So it makes me really happy to share with you the first track ‘Hårt Som Ben’ from the upcoming album with that same name. This will be released November 29 on Riot Season Records.

The new track is what you can expect from the band. Again a cosmic track with a highly hypnotic atmosphere. Listen now.

Dec 1: Glasgow, Nice N’ Sleazy w/ Snakes Don’t Belong in Alaska
Dec 2: Newcastle, The Cluny 2 w/ Snakes Don’t Belong in Alaska
Dec 4: Manchester, The Peer Hat w/ XUP, Forest Mourning
Dec 5: Bristol, The Crofter’s Rights w/ Stereocilia & Evil Owl
Dec 6: Chelmsford, The Hot Box

https://www.facebook.com/bandetkungensman/

https://www.facebook.com/riotseasonrecords/

 

Girl Band Release ‘The Talkies’ on Rough Trade Records

This year is an incredible year for noiserock and psychedelic rock, so I am having so much fun listening to all these new bands and albums and I have barely time enough to listen to it more the twice. But for this I took my time, Girl Band’s previous music is absolutely awesome and I have been a fan for quite a while now. So my expectations on this new album called ‘The Talkies’ were really high and I knew they were almost impossible to fill. Then I heard the album and I was completely blown away. ‘The Talkies’ is perfect, this album is so immensly experimental and still all of the tracks find a way in your head to make you an addict. Girl Band have found a way to create the perfect sound for noiserock.

The way they combine this experimental noise and still create something listenable, even catchy is just beyond me. The thing that struck me most is how the band uses different genres in one song and not only gets away with it but makes the tracks so much stronger. In the middle of a track Girl Band switches over to electronic beats that fit so good in their music they create something entirely new.

This album is released September 27 on Rough Trade and needs to find a way in your shelves at home. Order it on their website or on Rough Trade

From the intro to the most experimental track this album is perfect for me and will always be. First time I give an album 10/10 and I give it with love. This is art.

https://www.facebook.com/girlband/

https://www.facebook.com/roughtraderecords/

PART I: The best 150+ Noise Rock/Postpunk releases of the last decades. Selected by Ralph Schaarschmidt (TRIGGER CUT, Buzz Rodeo)

Okay, so I absolutely love noise rock, you probably knew that by now. I wanted a good and solid noiserock list since I started Fuzzy Sun but I need to be honest with myself, I know the cult bands, the ‘popular’ ones and a load of new ones since I started this website but i am no expert on the genre. So what better then ask for help.

So I asked Ralp Schaarschmidt (TRIGGER CUT / BUZZ RODEO) for help and i instantly got a ridiculous long list of the best noiserock/postpunk and stuff from the last decades.

This list is huge and is full of gems, both ‘popular’ and underground, old and new.

It is going to take time to listen to everything on this list but I promise you it will be worth it. Due to the length of the list this post will be in couple of parts. So this is Part I of the Ralph Schaarschmidt List. Enjoy

1. A Minor Forest – Flemish Altruism

https://www.facebook.com/AMINORFOREST/

2. A Witness – I Am John’s Pancreas 

https://www.facebook.com/awitnessofficial/

3. A Frames – Black Forest

https://www.facebook.com/AfFRAMES/

4. Arabrot – I Modi

https://www.facebook.com/ARABROT/

5. Alice Donut – Bucketfulls of Sickness and Horror in an Otherwise Meaningless Life

https://www.facebook.com/Alice-Donut-136220507619/

6. Articles of Faith – In This Life

https://www.facebook.com/Articles-Of-Faith-110537262309560/

7. Arsenal – Factory smog is a sign of progress 

8. Afghan Wigs – Up In It

https://www.facebook.com/TheAfghanWhigsOfficial/

9. Animal Lover – Fundango

https://www.facebook.com/Animal-Lover-154808937928818/

10. American Analog Set – Know By Heart.

https://www.facebook.com/americananalogset/

http://www.amanset.com/?fbclid=IwAR01gCS0-k2CQclSUTJPwdjrBpk1vWmSXcDFySv3U5AroDUrpTx60yW8ias

11. Auxiliary Mammals – Auxiliary Mammels

https://www.facebook.com/AuxiliaryMammals

12. Au Pairs – Playing with a different sex

13. Arab on Radar -Queen Hygiene II

https://www.facebook.com/soakthesaddle/

14. Arcwelder – Jacket made in Canada

https://www.facebook.com/Arcwelder-34892501561/

http://www.arcwelderband.com/jacket.htm

15. Assembly Line People Program- Subdivision of being

 

16. Archers of Loaf—Icky Mettle

https://www.facebook.com/Archers-of-Loaf-187124247984804/

17. Antimoney – Phantom Itch

18. Ativin – German Water

https://www.facebook.com/pg/ATIVIN/

19. Bakamono-The cry of the Tukish fig peddler

20. Bedhead – Transactions de Novo

https://www.facebook.com/BedheadOfficial/

http://www.bedheadband.com/bedhead_transaction_de_novo.php

21. Barkmarket – L ron

https://www.facebook.com/Barkmarket-353668881407905/

https://barkmarket.blogspot.com/p/discography.html

22. Boxcar Satan—Crooked Mile march

https://www.facebook.com/Boxcar-Satan-208732105826720/

http://www.boxcarsatan.com/disc-cmm.html

23. Buzzcocks – A different kind of tension

https://www.facebook.com/buzzcocksofficial/

24. Black Midi – Schlagenheim

https://www.facebook.com/blackmidi/

25. Borzoi  – A Prayer for War

https://www.facebook.com/borzoiaus/

26. Bikini Eyebolt – Bikini Eyebolt

27. B-52’s – Wild Planet

28. The Black heart Procession – 2

https://www.facebook.com/blackheartprocession/

29. Big Stick – Drag Racing

https://fortemusicdistribution.bandcamp.com/album/drag-racing-hell-on-earth

30. Big Boys – Lullabies Help The Brain Grow

https://www.sacrilegiodistro.com.br/produtos/big-boys-lullabies-help-the-brain-grow-lp

31. Bauhaus – In The Flatfields

32. Brainiac – Bonsai Superstar

https://www.facebook.com/Brainiac-1469097239973542/

33. Babes in Toyland – Spanking Machine

https://www.facebook.com/babesintoylandofficial/

34. The Breeders – Pod

https://www.facebook.com/thebreeders/

35. Blacklisters – BLKSTRS

https://www.facebook.com/blacklistersmusic/

36. Bummer – Holy Terror

https://www.facebook.com/BummerKC

37. BAÑOS y BAÑOS – Singles Going Broke

http://banosybanos.com/

38. Bellini – Small Stones

https://www.facebook.com/bellinitheband

39. Baxter Stockman – Haul

https://www.facebook.com/Baxter-Stockman-187793970293/

40.  Bad Breeding – Divide

https://www.facebook.com/badbreedingband/

41. Bear Claw – Find the Sun

https://www.facebook.com/BearClawChicago/

42. Blunderbuss – Conspiracy

43. Big Black – Atomizer

https://www.facebook.com/bigblackalbiniband/

44. Beige Palace – Leg

https://www.facebook.com/beigepalaceband/

45. Bilge Pump – We Love You

https://www.facebook.com/TheMightyBilgePump

46. Bitch Magnet – Umber

https://www.facebook.com/Bitch-Magnet-127645200609689/

47. Big’n – Cutthroat

https://www.facebook.com/Bign-137327156310591/

48.  Butthole Surfers – Rembrandt Pussywhore

https://www.facebook.com/Butthole-Surfers-160201350690283/

49. Bar-B-Q Killers – Comely

50. Band of Susans – Hope Against Hope

https://www.facebook.com/BandOfSusans/

51. Boss Hog – Cold Hands

52. Bewitched – Brain Eraser

53. Blood Brothers – March on Electric Children

https://www.facebook.com/thebloodbrothersofficial/

54. Alpha Strategy – Drink the Brine, Get Scarce

https://www.facebook.com/AlphaStrategy

55. Birthday Party – Junkyard

56. Building – Melt Cry Sleep

https://www.facebook.com/buildingsband

57. A Band Called E – E

https://www.facebook.com/ABandCalledE/

58. Cop Shoot Cop – White Noise

59. Bastro – Diablo Guapo

https://www.dragcity.com/artists/bastro

60. Codeine – Frigid Stars

61. Chrome Cranks – Love in Excile

https://www.facebook.com/The-Chrome-Cranks-122677111755/

62. Chavez – Gone Glimmering

https://www.facebook.com/RideTheChavez/

63. Chaser – Chaser

64. Cutthroats 9 – Dissent

65. Chokebore – Motionless

https://www.facebook.com/chokebore

66. Cherubs – Icing

https://www.facebook.com/CherubsTX/

67. Crain – Speed

68. Coral – Pillow Talk

69. Crownhate Ruin – Until the Eagle Grins

70. Cabaret Voltaire – Mix Up

Cherubs release ‘Immaculada High’

The noiserock trio Cherubs returned after a two-decade hiatus in 2014 and they released 2 Ynfynyty in 2015, a split with Gay Witch Abortion in 2016 and the Fist in The Air EP in 2016.

Their new album ‘Immaculada High’ is very intense and expertly crafted. The slow, brooding and epic songs like ‘Soooey Pig’  and ‘IMCG’  create a hazy feeling but there are enough high energy tracks filled with agression and riffs to keep this a very heavy album. Absolutely gorgeous!

The band shows with ‘Immaculada High’ that they are on top of the food chain. Tune in, buy the album on Relapse Records and enjoy the noise of cult rockers Cherubs.

 

https://www.facebook.com/CherubsTX/

Cherubs share ‘Full Regalia’ from ‘Immaculada High’

The noiserock trio Cherubs returned after a two-decade hiatus in 2014 and they released 2 Ynfynyty in 2015, a split with Gay Witch Abortion in 2016 and the Fist in The Air EP in 2016.

The first two tracks from their upcoming album ‘Immaculade  High’ are already out. The album will be out on July 26 on Relapse Records. The album is recorded and engineered by Erik Wofford (Explosions In The Sky, The Black Angels, My Morning Jacket) at Cacophony Studio in their hometown of Austin.

now it is time for the third track ‘Full Regalia’

https://www.facebook.com/CherubsTX/

Cherubs share second track from ‘Immaculada High’

The noiserock trio Cherubs returned after a two-decade hiatus in 2014 and they released 2 Ynfynyty in 2015, a split with Gay Witch Abortion in 2016 and the Fist in The Air EP in 2016.

The first track from their upcoming album ‘Sooey Pig’ is already out. The album ‘Immaculada High’ will be out on July 26 on Relapse Records. The album is recorded and engineered by Erik Wofford (Explosions In The Sky, The Black Angels, My Morning Jacket) at Cacophony Studio in their hometown of Austin.

Now we get the second track and video ’18 is the number’. Play loud!

https://www.facebook.com/CherubsTX/

Beak> share new track ‘We Can Go’

The album ‘>>>’ from last year is probably one of my most played records, ending with the track ‘When We Fall’ wich is just the perfect way to end the album. It ended as the best stuff of 2018 together with Gnod, Qujaku and Daughters on Fuzzy Sun’s List.

Beak> is comprised of Billy Fuller, Geoff Barrow and Will Young  (They are definitly not a side project) and they play gorgeous life shows with the most excellent light shows.

They shared ‘Life Goes On’ a while ago and now we get the gorgeous new track ‘We Can Go’. These two tracks are on the upcoming EP “Life Goes on” that will be released 21 June via Invada Records.

https://www.facebook.com/beakbristol/

Cherubs share second track from ‘Immaculada High’

The noiserock trio Cherubs returned after a two-decade hiatus in 2014 and they released 2 Ynfynyty in 2015, a split with Gay Witch Abortion in 2016 and the Fist in The Air EP in 2016.

The first track from their upcoming album ‘Sooey Pig’ is already out. The album ‘Immaculada High’ will be out on July 26 on Relapse Records. The album is recorded and engineered by Erik Wofford (Explosions In The Sky, The Black Angels, My Morning Jacket) at Cacophony Studio in their hometown of Austin.

Now we get the second track and video ’18 is the number’. Play loud!

https://www.facebook.com/CherubsTX/

Beak> is back with new music

The album ‘>>>’ from last year is probably one of my most played records, ending with the track ‘When We Fall’ wich is just the perfect way to end the album. It ended as the best stuff of 2018 together with Gnod, Qujaku and Daughters on Fuzzy Sun’s List.

The seasoned band  Beak> is comprised of Billy Fuller, Geoff Barrow and Will Young  (They are definitly not a side project) and they play gorgeous life shows with the most excellent light shows.

Very happy to tell you they have shared a new track called ‘Life Goes On’. It is clear Beak> keeps producing high quality hypnotic musc.

Check the track out now and buy it on bandcamp.

https://www.facebook.com/beakbristol/

Henge release ‘Nothing Head’ on God Unknown Records

It is only March and the magnificent releases are stacking up, but this one, this one is absolutely gorgeous. Henge released their previous album in January 2016 and are now back on the great God Unknown Records with their new album ‘Nothing Head’. This album is an absolute masterpiece, the ominous vibe on this album and the intensity is masterfully crafted. It is a while since i heard psych, noiserock and doom go this good together.

The London band shift easy between slow atmosphere building psych to full on noisy doom and they make it sound easy.

Easily one of the best albums of the year. Tune in for some mind altering noise by Henge, out now on God Unknown Records.

For more heavy stuff, check out Fuzzy Sun’s list.

https://www.facebook.com/hengeyouprick/

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