SLOTHS & LOVE MOON
SLOTHS (Portland, Oregon)
https://sloths.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/slothsportland
From nihilistic lyrics to haunted fits of melody, Sloths play a dark yet dynamic tune. A music anchored by sludge laden riffs, Portland’s three piece have extensively toured the west coast and have released two EPs. The new 12” Twenty Years is their best yet, furthering the band’s fetish for genre twisting melancholy that’s only native to the pacific northwest.
LOVE MOON (Oakland, California)
https://lovemoon.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/lovemoonband
Love Moon is a psych-sludge band from Oakland, CA. Bred in the Midwest, Love Moon relocated from Indianapolis to The Bay Area in the Summer of 2014. Having established a national basement reputation with their previous band, Male Bondage, Love Moon (named after the now out of print Male Bondage LP) is poised to annihilate West Coast eardrums with superfluous amplification and celestial catchiness. With influences taken from vintage heaviness (The Melvins, Black Sabbath) mixed with more contemporary reflections (MBV, Torche) Love Moon creates a wall of noise that sounds oddly familiar but remains otherworldly. Tour-hards by nature, it is inevitable that Love Moon will eventually be hauling an excessive number of amps into your town, drinking most of the beers, and leaving a weird, foggy, but ringing memory in your ears and hearts.
- Richard Banner, Drink Or Die
BIRDBATH (Bloomington, Indiana)
http://birdbathzin.bandcamp.com/releases
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Birdbath/518771814835586
WOUNDED KNEE (Indianapolis, Indiana)
https://woundedkneerock.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/woundedkneeIN