Psych Rock Summer Show

Continuing in the summer of psychedelic, indie rock goodness... Grand Atlantic will be joined by The Moderns (Gold Coast) and Howling Rabbits to kick off 2012 in style at The Beetle Bar, Brisbane.

The Beetle Bar

www.beetlebar.com.au

350 Upper Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000

8pm : $10

Eight Miles High Festival

We are delighted to present the inaugural Eight Miles High mini-festival, a celebration of psychedelic, 60’s influenced, surf, shoegaze, and dreamy pop music. We’ve carefully selected bands that operate out towards the fringes of the musical landscape, and hope you’ll join us on this magical mystery tour…it will take place at The Zoo, Saturday December 10.

with Richard In Your Mind, Sand Pebbles, Belles Will Ring, Black Cab, Grand Atlantic, Los Huevos, Dead Shades, Howling Rabbits

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US Release

 

"Constellations" is officially out in the US now and attracting great reviews!

The album is currently streaming for your listening pleasure at Spinner's Full CD Listening Party

Purchase the album on Vinyl, CD or Digital Download

Constellations

 

"Constellations" is out and attracting great reviews!

Purchase the album on Vinyl, CD or Digital Download

4 Star Review.  Noel Mengel, Courier Mail

Great rock'n'roll can be made anywhere. But who would have thought two of the better rock records this year would be made (a) somewhere up near the Arctic in a Norwegian fishing village (Virgins of Menace by The Disciplines) and (b) in an abandoned former asylum outside of Dunedin (this one).
This Brisbane quartet's live shows are things of raw and sometimes brutal beauty and recording in these spooky surrounds with NZ producer Dale Cotton focuses all their brooding power on to tape. They've done that on previous albums but not quite so breathtakingly as here.
For evidence, check the album's eight-minute title cut, where the band snarls and soothes around songwriter Phil Usher's vocals before taking off in a psych-guitar freakout of speaker-shredding intensity. It's surely a prime contender for rock crescendo of the year. Then they bring the listener back to planet Earth with the aching slow-mo of Mountains Too Steep, with Morgan Hann's 12-string electric guitar helping develop the epic quality of the track.
The album kicks off in celebratory mood with the towering Searchlights then gets frantic and sweaty with Central Station Blues, but the quality remains consistent all the way to Usher's acoustic guitar sign-off, Queenie.
Weirdly, Grand Atlantic seem to get more love in the US than they do at home (they are about to set off on another trip there) but fans of '60s garage rock and bands like Primal Scream and Oasis at their amp-rattling peak, shouldn't miss this heavy, heady delight.