"One Friday night a few winters ago I went to watch a game of rugby in Northampton under a blanket of frozen fog more impenetrable than I could ever recall seeing in my hometown. *****ĭIS (aptly named) usually ignore our releases but they have just published a review of our forthcoming Anthroprophh album. Though we don't think this reviewer is much of a fan judging by this 2/10 review: What are you waiting for? It’s time to smoke up and drift away.
Then things go a bit spacekraut again on the closer ‘We’ which is like Sylvester Anfang II gently covering ‘Black To Comm’ by the MC5 in an opium den. In fact the out-there twiddlings on ‘Precession’ very much remind me of Michael Karoli, before things head in a bit of Popol Vuh direction and things get real trippy, continuing the synth ritual feel into the second side with ‘Ende’ and ‘Entropy’ also both heading deep into this hypno-synth-raga psych choogle wilderness to intoxicating effect, sometimes heading into krautrock steeped in the free-bong landscapes of Expo 70 and Sun Araw and striped with neon guitar shapes. I know from our sales figures that a lot of you are already pretty into cult UK psych titans The Heads, so you probably don’t need me to tell you that Anthroprophh is the alter-ego of their visionary songwriter and axe-mangler Paul Allen, who here dishes out six lengthy tracks of krautrock-infused psychedelia which ranges from hard-riffing psych fuzz to burbling ritualistic mysticism like a trippy modern take on the Hawkwind and Can traditions which seem to be all the rage at the moment. Normans, one of the best record shops in UK have given a little 5/5 write up of the Anthroprophh album, which hits the shops on January 28th: Read the whole Interview: thequietus-anthroprophh-interview Traditions of the post-'67 era, but equally one that's keen to look Head-bang to gleefully in a mosh pit, or be serenaded by as you whileĪway a sleepless, hash-hazed night. Taking in a range of moods and atmospheres, the kind of music you can AnthroprophhĮssentially encapsulates the sound of modern psych-rock, as espoused byĪll those bands: it's heavy but subtle, driving but fleet-footed, Rocket Recordings, home of Gnod, Goat and Teeth Of The Sea.
Self-titled album has just been released through the ever-reliable Heads, is discussing his new solo project Anthroprophh, whose debut Paul Allen, erstwhile guitarist with Bristolian heavy psych band The More sparse and minimal as the record went on, and not just sketches." Genre that dominates my record collection, but I wanted it to be a bit "The intention was to create music in vein, as it's a He speaks to Joseph Burnett about how writing hisĭebut album provided a creative shot in the arm. Heads, blasts off into inner space via kosmische drone and acid-frazzled
The Quietus have just published a interview with Anthroprophh about his debut solo album out now on Rocket.Īltered Head Space: An Interview With AnthroprophhĪnthroprophh, the new project of Paul Allen of Bristol voyagers The