For The Masses
Label | Heavy Psych Sounds – HPS109 |
Format | Vinyl, LP, Album |
Barcode | 0736530999629 |
Country | Italy |
Released | 2019 |
Genre | Rock |
Style | Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock |
After bursting onto the scene with their 2015 tribal-psychedelic LP 'Sonic Praise', touring the USA with Yob and Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, crushing Roadburn, then quickly releasing a for-heads-only, noisy, psychedelic-garage record to weed out the weak ('Raw Rock Fury'), Ecstatic Vision have pulled themselves out of the muck to deliver their finest album to date. Recorded in Philadelphia at Retro City Studios with Joe Boldizar and mixed/mastered by Tim Green (Earthless, The Melvins) at Louder Studios in Grass Valley, CA, Ecstatic Vision's recent fuzzed-out sound has been sculpted it into a HI/FI psychedelic wonderland. This album is the closest the band has gotten to achieving the energy of their untouchable live shows on tape. EV took a simpler approach on the art this time, using the Spanish dream-team of Edko Fuzz and Bangalore Studios. 'For The Masses' blends tripped-out synth, semi-catatonic desert driving tunes, Afro-tribal Funkadelic vibes, troglodyte-Detroit rock grooves, acid freak-outs, ethereal psychedelic hymns and mind-altering krautrock into Ecstatic Vision's outsider take on modern music. It's like if Tangerine Dream jammed with Lemmy and the Asheton Brothers and decided to play some world music and free jazz in 1971.
A1 | Sage Wisdom | |
A2 | Shut Up And Drive | |
A3 | Yuppie Sacrifice | |
A4 | Like A Freak | |
B1 | For The Masses | |
B2 | The Magic Touch | |
B3 | Grasping The Void |
Mixed By – Tim Green
Performer – Douglas Sabolick
Performer – Kevin Nickles
Performer – Michael Field Connor
Performer – Ricky Culp
Photography By – Edko Fuzz
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A etched) – HPS109LP - A
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A stamped) – MPO® 19 125713
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B etched) – HPS109LP - B
Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B stamped) – MPO® 19 125714