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Hashtronaut: No Return (2024)

Hashtronaut ... are you fucking kidding me???

With a name like that I needed just a few streams to open my wallet for this Denver, CO-based stoner rock band, knowing their debut LP, No Return (and its stunning, transparent green with yellow and blue splatter wax), had already locked up a reservation on VinylSpinning when April 20th (a.k.a. 420, Cannabis Culture Day) rolled around.

Even more serendipitous was learning that Hashtronaut were playing The Cobra, a small club right here in Nashville, this past Tuesday on a four-band bill completed by local head-bangers Dead Runes, Karma Vulture, and Electric Python -- all for the princely sum of $10.

It felt like 1997 all over again!

So does Hashtronaut's music; or did you think I would have stayed up past my bedtime (on a weeknight, no less!) if these stoned space-farers didn't deliver the musical goods to back up their titular genius and visual presentation?

Just keep in mind that, in a contradiction of its title, No Return is in fact a purely nostalgic exercise and that there's literally ZERO innovation at hand; even the anti-marijuana dialog sampled from '50s and '60s propaganda films have been used elsewhere before.

But well-written standouts like "Rip Wizard" (whose chorus shouts "Smoking it all"), "Carcinogen," "Dead Cloud," and "Dweller" offer doomy, space-themed stoner rock of the highest caliber, reminiscent of vintage Acrimony, Orange Goblin, and Lowrider.

Heck, my biggest complaint is that the fabulous "Hex" should have lasted ten minutes instead of just two!

Finally, I'll praise Daniel Smith (ex-Alamo Black) for the melancholy, haunted strain in his voice -- the kind reserved only for those of us who have been lost in space -- plus he can also roar like an alien beast on "Cough it Up" and "Lung Ruiner." The instrumental "Marsquake" (a sequel to the non-album early track "Moonquake") and a thirty-second thrashing called "Blast Off" bring No Return to an end after barely 41 minutes, but these days I'd rather be left wanting more than stuffed to the gills.

And the sum of all this is: Hashtronaut offer much more than just a clever moniker and irresistible packaging, so I'll be waiting eagerly for their next musical mission (and Nashville show) into the stoner rock void.

More Stoner Rock & Doom: Acrimony’s Tumuli Shroomaroom, The Atomic Bitchwax’s The Atomic Bitchwax, Belzebong’s Sonic Scapes & Weedy Grooves, Bigelf’s Cheat the Gallows, Black Capricorn’s Born Under the Capricorn, Black Rainbows’ Hawkdope, Blue Heron’s Ephemeral, Bongripper’s Satan Worshipping Doom, Bongzilla’s Stash, Cavity’s Supercollider, Ché’s Sounds of Liberation, Clutch’s Earth Rocker, Dead Meadow’s Dead Meadow, Dopethrone’s Hochelaga, Earthride’s Earthride EP, Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone, Eternal Elysium’s Spiritualized D, Fu Manchu’s No One Rides for Free, The Glasspack’s Powderkeg, Goatsnake’s Goatsnake Vol. 1, Green Druid’s Ashen Blood, The Heads’ Mao Tinitus EP, The Hidden Hand’s Mother Teacher Destroyer, House of Broken Promises’ Using the Useless ...

Even More Stoner Rock & Doom: Kyuss’ Blues for the Red Sun, Lowrider’s Ode to Io, Monster Magnet’s Spine of God, The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight’s The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight, Los Natas’ Ciudad de Braham, Nebula’s Let it Burn, Novadriver’s Void, The Obsessed’s Lunar Womb, Orange Goblin’s Frequencies from Planet Ten, Reverend Bizarre’s In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend, Sasquatch’s II, Sigiriya’s Return to Earth, Sleep’s Holy Mountain, Slift’s Ummon, Slo Burn’s Amusing the Amazing, Solarized’s  Driven, Sons of Otis’ SpaceJumboFudge, Spaceslug’s Lemanis, Spirit Caravan’s Dreamwheel EP, Spiritu’s Spiritu, Terra Firma’s “Spiral Guru,” Thulsa Doom’s The Seats are Soft but the Helmet’s Way too Tight, Toner Low’s Toner Low, UFOmammut’s Snailking, Unida’s Coping with the Urban Coyote, The Wandering Midget’s From the Meadows of Opium Dreams, Warhorse’s As Heaven Turns to Ash, Witch’s Witch, Wo Fat’s The Black Code.

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I’m shuffling my deck and revealing the top 10 cards to all; one by one.

10♥️: Slift: “The Real Unseen”

9♦️: Maxband: “Exhaling”

10♦️: Boy Harsher: “Run”

K♣️: Iodi: “Sonrie”

7♦️: BadBadNotGood f. Charlotte Wilson: “In Your Eyes”

K♥️: Self Defense Family: “Jesus Of Nazareth”

6♥️: Editrix: “She Wants to Go And Party”

4♦️: Tracks: “Bottleneck”

10♣️: Kontravoid: “So It Seems” (ver. 2)

5♠️: Zonal f. Moor Mother: “System Error"

B/W🃏: Thanks For Coming: "Five And A Half Feet Under"

@iamdangerace tagged me to hit ‘shuffle’ and list the next ten songs that come up. To make it simpler, all tracks posted here are ones I found in the Springtime within the last five years.

Unlike everyone, I use iTunes and not Spotify. iTunes always gives me freedom to import and find anything I want without limitations like Spotify. And, Spotify is a cheap deadbeat uncle who keeps taking from his poorer friends and never gives anything back.

I invite @charliemonroe, @sludgexslut, @sibelin, @lysistra and @kimkimberhelen to play.

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Sonic Blast 2024 – Dia 3:High on Slift!

Sonic Blast 2024 – Dia 3:High on Slift!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””] No último dia, o headbanging dominou, houve tempo para a dança … mas foram os Slift que fizeram levitar o Sonic Blast!   Headbanging A bancada do merch dos High on Fire teve fila durante uma boa parte do dia, contribuindo para a ideia de que uma das referências principais do Stoner Metal terá sido o principal chamariz do último dia do festival. O trio de…

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SLIFT - Space Is The Key / La Planère Inexplorée (2022 2LP reissue of the 2017/2018 albums)

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SLIFT - NIMH / video

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SLIFT / ILION 2023

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Slift: Ummon (2020)

This five-year-old record sounds like it should be 25, because its stoner rock sounds travel the same space-ways, psych-waves, and desert-scapes that Monster Magnet, Clutch, and countless Kyuss disciples were traversing around the year 2000.

But French power trio Slift actually hail from present-day Toulouse, where they were formed in 2016 by brothers Jean (guitar, vocals, synthesizers) and Rémi Fossat (bass), plus their school chum Canek Flores (drums).

2020's cryptically-named Ummon was their sophomore LP and I must confess I bought it on the strength of my friend Phil Freeman's good taste and the stunning cover art designed by legendary comic book artist Caza (real name Philippe Cazaumayou).

Weighing in at a hefty hour-plus running time, Ummon never tries to hide its influences, as the title track, "Hyperion," and other trips rip into into driving stoner rock backed by Jean's wah-wah-drenched solo flights, reminiscent of Ed Mundell's Atomic Bitchwax.

Meanwhile, longer excursions ("It's Coming ...," "Citadel on a Satellite") and ethereal, lysergic psychedelic dreamscapes ("Aurore Aux Confins," "Son Dông's Cavern") serve up more familiar ingredients for both space rock astronauts and Kraut-rock "Motoriks" (see "Sonar").

So the only real surprise in store here are Jean's unexpected hardcore-like barks on "Thousand Helmets of Gold" and on the first half of the seemingly endless, all-encompassing album capper, "Lions, Tigers and Bears," which brings me to a conundrum ...

As someone who's praised countless derivative space/stoner/desert rock bands tapping these same ingredients over the years, I feel not a little hypocritical for not giving Slift and Ummon my full stamp of approval.

But something's just missing ... what's that thing the French say?

Well, I don't know what it is (snort!), but let's just say I don't hear the sort of next-level songcraft and personality (maybe "Altitude Lake"?) necessary to compensate for the band's complete debt to artists past.

Even Slift's obvious reliance on quantity, if not quality, remind me of the similarly overwhelming, occasionally exciting, but terribly uneven works of The Bevis Frond.

That's compliment enough, right?

Well, it'll have to do, and I suppose I'll also have to give Slift another chance based on the positive reviews bestowed upon their third long-player, Illion, which arrived in 2024 through Sub-Pop, of all record labels!

More Spacey Stoner Rock: Acrimony’s Tumuli Shroomaroom, The Atomic Bitchwax’s The Atomic Bitchwax, Black Rainbows’ Hawkdope, Blue Heron's Ephemeral, Cavity’s Supercollider, Ché’s Sounds of Liberation, Clutch’s Earth Rocker, Eternal Elysium’s Spiritualized D, Fu Manchu’s No One Rides for Free, Hashtronaut's No Return, The Heads' Mao Tinitus EP, House of Broken Promises’ Using the Useless, Kyuss’ Blues for the Red Sun, Lowrider’s Ode to Io, Monster Magnet’s Dopes to Infinity, Los Natas’ Ciudad de Braham, Nebula’s Let it Burn, Novadriver’s Void, Orange Goblin’s Frequencies from Planet Ten, Sigiriya’s Return to Earth, Sleep’s Holy Mountain, Slo Burn’s Amusing the Amazing, Solarized’s Driven, Sons of Otis’ SpaceJumboFudge, Spirit Caravan’s Dreamwheel EP, Spiritu’s Spiritu, Terra Firma’s "Spiral Guru," Toner Low’s Toner Low, UFOmammut’s Snailking, Unida’s Coping with the Urban Coyote, The Wandering Midget’s From the Meadows of Opium Dreams, Wo Fat’s The Black Code.

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🖌️: Caza

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Sounds That Have Been Made, EP 88: Slift live at CEMES Laboratory

“This set was recorded and filmed at the CEMES laboratory, in Toulouse, south of France. The place is called “La Boule”, and the structures you see behind us are the top of an old particle microscope. The sound turns infinitely in this sphere of aluminum. We wanted to confront our songs with this environment full of endless echoes and noises.” Well, that certainly gives it a weird Jules Verne…