Ganglians

Monster Head Room

“This album is pure naive headphone acid pop to drive to, at least that’s what was going through our heads.”- Ganglians

Sacramentoʼs Ganglians want an island somewhere where they can soak in the sun and prowl the canopy by night. Itʼs not often that they do get out, but they can get down for that. Recording sometimes as one, sometimes as four itʼs a real game to figure out where the entity comes from and where itʼs going. First and foremost itʼs about uncertain pleasures. Itʼs a bit like choose your own adventure.

Thereʼs “codeine balladry”; a slightly upsetting tempo that is quickly flushed into an aural high, the next moment youʼre in the toy strewn abyss of the bedroom and then out to the tribal caves of the natives. The planets align and the sun beats down, palms tingling, and you are on the island theyʼve built, the scenery constantly shifting for a better view, of you.

It's a bike-ride of a song that puts its own spin the Beach Boys or the psych-folk-pop-argh of Grizzly Bear. But while Grizzly Bear manicure and cloister their psych folk in the parlor, Ganglians slather and cake them in mud. Then they set them free. – Pitchfork


album: Monster Head Room
(w/ bonus tracks) “Candy Girl” b/w “We Won’t Let Things Pass”
release: 28.05.2010
2xLP / CD (SOU010) Limited 7” Single (SOU007)
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