PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS
RETURN WITH NEW SINGLE + VIDEO
NEW ALBUM COMING 2022
Photo credit: Tristan Mckenzie
Australian psych rock heroes Psychedelic Porn Crumpets are back with new music giving us the glorious new single “Lava Lamp Pisco.” The soong is a rip roaring return for the band, who shared their fourth studio album SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound earlier this year. The first single to be taken from a new album due to land in 2022. “Lava Lamp Pisco” is powered by thrilling riffs and comes complete with a fantastic animated video by Bristol-based animator artist Gina Tratt.
Of the new single, frontman Jack McEwan says “After Shyga! I wanted to write something a bit heavier, get back to the Sabbath roots and chug on a riff for yonks till it hums like a Novocaine mantra. I wanted it to feel like it was constantly progressing, getting more chaotic with drones, swirling between dissonant layers and get the body jangling with a Tyson hook. The lyrics weren't intentionally meant to be dark, I’ve always liked to keep our music upbeat and positive but some days it felt like everything was blurring into one, waiting for life to resume into some sense of normality. But what is normal? Change is good, variety is the spice of life and from these weird times I can truly say I've never been happier. So the Pisco of life continues, building with bulldozers, creating from rubble, chewing on bricks with a toothless optimism. It’s nice to feel rounded.”
Of the video, McEwan adds “As soon as we saw Gina's work we all really wanted to collaborate and work together on a project. The idea was to follow the drone aspect of the track, build a playful landscape for midnight youtube trippers to gobble up while outlining the expendable nature our mundane working routines, slice that up with some greedy corporate overlord whose main objective is to deplete the world of all resources for capitalistic gains and voila! You've got a Lava Lamp Pisco. Old mate Bezzy was the inspiration.
Gina's an absolute hero! We love what she's created and hope that everyone enjoys our dark little episode.”
Formed in 2014, the Perth experimental quintet have quickly become one of Australia’s hottest prospects, uncovering all kinds of weirdness and psychotic fuzz in their deceptively concise and punchy psych rock sounds. Debut album High Visceral, Pt. 1 set the bar incredibly high from the off, quickly followed by High Visceral, Pt. 2 a year later, with landmark release And Now for the Whatchamacallit hitting the shelves in 2019 and racking up millions of streams in very little time. In February this year, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets released their fourth studio album SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound which marked their biggest step in their evolution yet, melding all manner of quizzical and heart-palpitating sounds into their uncompromising orchestra of noise. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have fans across the world, garnering acclaim from BBC Radio 1, KEXP, Triple J, NPR, Rolling Stone, Classic Rock, Guitar Magazine, Spotify, Apple Music and more.
PRAISE FOR SHYGA! THE SUNLIGHT MOUND
"a well-drilled band adept at firing off twisted riffs and spluttering time signatures... Exuberant throughout, PPC's trip has notched up a gear" - Classic Rock, 8/10
“The big picture: fast-paced garage insanity. The detail: some of today's most interesting fiery guitar rock" - Shindig!, 4*
“as per usual, the band have delivered. With the high energy psychedelic haze that metamorphosises around anything this band touch, their exploration of complexities forever surprise” - Clash, 8/10
"Fast forward to 2021, and that same sense of rule-breaking creativity remains firmly intact with the band's latest offering, SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound... another fantastic Psychedelic Porn Crumpets record" - Gigwise, 9/10
"the kings of oddity... a shot straight to the bloodstream; fleeting from aqueous, kaleidoscopic psychedelia to bombastic post-punk cacophony" - Dork, 4*
“SHYGA! The Sunlight Mound… takes their kaleidoscopic manifestations into new dimensions”
Guitar World
Lava Lamp Pisco artwork
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