https://www.high-endrolex.com/18

Sleestak Release Altrusian Moon Collection of Improv Jams

Immediate kudos to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, four-piece Sleestak. To honor the coming of 2012, the adventurous doomers have made a collection of unreleased jams available for a pay-what-you-want download at their Bandcamp page. Given the name Altrusian Moon and a gorgeous cover befitting the psychedelic mood of the material, it’s as much a joy to hear as it is to appreciate the band’s bravery in stepping outside their songwriting comfort zone — or maybe just giving as a deeper look within it. Either way, as I said, kudos.

Sleestak is on Bandcamp here. Here’s the news and the stream of the songs:

Sleestak is kicking off the New Year with a new release called Altrusian Moon – A Lo-Fi Collection of Psychedelia and Space Rock. Yes, we know: we didn’t warn you.

It is available at Bandcamp and is a “pay what you want” digital album — you can pay $0 or be as generous as you wish. We dug deep into our rehearsal archives to give our fans a glimpse into our relaxed freeform jams, a very psychedelic improvised musical exploration of song ideas. Yes, there are mistakes, missed drum hits, wrong notes, etc. but the journey is there — a raw yet sublime document of our times playing together in the basement over the years. Also included is the live remix jam version of “The Fall of Altrusia” from 2009. You’ll hear some of our wider influences in this material and may appeal to fans of Bardo Pond, Hawkwind, USX, Red Sparowes, Dead Meadow, White Hills, and Yawning Man.

If you dig it, please consider purchasing the download as we start gathering funds to record the studio follow-up to Altrusia, hopefully to be released in 2012.

Tags: , ,

One Response to “Sleestak Release Altrusian Moon Collection of Improv Jams”

  1. doomborn says:

    lo-fi indeed…

Leave a Reply