Zeitgeist is a cool word.

GARY WAR is a mysterious upstart from Brooklyn who can conjure the ever-changing zeitgeist of psychedelia out of the ether. Playing with vast, sweeping echoes, softly sung lyrics, and infusing sonic textures through synth-driven overtures, Gary War takes us through the often banal sonics of the psychedelic form with a fresh take on what seems at first, an aggregate of the past couple of decades of drug-influenced music, and drops us dead center, at the doorstep to La La Land. His tonal insobriety, from one song to the next is a true sign of the times, where artists are driven to explore different avenues, melding genres, vocal styles and instrumentation to arrive somewhere new, all the while taking the listener along for the ride. Pulling from influences that hold as much up to Chrome as they do Syd Barret, Gary War is able to wrangle them from every corner, and he even covers The Alan Parsons Project without sounding misguided,or a late arriving hippie on a hotbox high. Gary War creates a sound that wisps through the knobby branches of the past and sumptuously uproots our notions of the boundaries of psychedelia. Gary War has albums available through two of our favourite record labels SHDWPLY and Sacred Bones and a forthcoming EP on Captured Tracks too.
www.myspace.com/garywargarywar

DAM MANTLE is the new electronic project from Glasgow's Tom Marshallsay. His songs fuse disparate elements such as icy pulses and fluxing sublines, skipping melodies and broken vocalisations into a greater semblance which makes devastating sense. As informed by Omar Souleyman as much as Hudson Mohawke, Dam Mantle takes the abstract and turns it inside out, making music which evolves. In a live scenario Tom recruits the odd friend to help out and for most shows he'll have a totally new set to play also - if you see him exciting times await. www.myspace.com/porcelainpoems