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Mugstar Announce Collapsar (Skull Scorchers and Neuron Phasers – Singles and Rarities) out Dec. 15

Posted in Whathaveyou on December 4th, 2017 by JJ Koczan

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Any Mugstar release is a decent excuse to get weird, but I feel like the forthcoming Collapsar stands out as being especially so. Set for issue on Dec. 15 through Evil Hoodoo Records, the full title of the offering is Collapsar (Skull Scorchers and Neuron Phasers – Singles and Rarities), so in addition to just being an outing from the Liverpudlian troupe, it’s also drawing from multiple sources for its live tracks, alternate versions and — because, yes, absolutely — a cover of Fairport Convention‘s “Tam Lin” that bridges the seemingly impossible gap between pastoral folk and garage-gaze. You didn’t even know that gap existed because it’s so wide. They might as well have bridged the sky.

Anyhoozle, if you’ve got a freakout quota, they’re primed to blow it out of the cosmos across the unmanageable 68 minutes included here, and if you want just the most basic sampling of what’s on offer, you can stream the track “Flavin’ HotRod” at the bottom of this post. Enjoy.

The PR wire brings art, details and links:

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MUGSTAR – COLLAPSAR – Latest album release by Evil Hoodoo on 15th December

EVIL HOODOO PRESENTS The latest release for Liverpool’s psych lords Mugstar

MUGSTAR – COLLAPSAR (Skull Scorchers and Neuron Phasers – Singles & Rarities).

Liverpool’s MUGSTAR have steadily grown in status over a fifteen-year timescale on the UK underground rock scene. “COLLAPSAR…” is a timely collection of singles and rarities which charts MUGSTAR’s ever evolving outbound journey across the space lanes since the start of the millennium. Catching the ear of the late, great John Peel with their first single ‘Spotlight Over Memphis’, MUGSTAR notably went on to record one of the very last ever Peel Sessions for him.

From that point on, MUGSTAR have been transmitting their unique signal out to the furthest reaches of both inner and outer space ever since. This collection brings together some of MUGSTAR’s best-loved live tracks alongside some now difficult to find rarities – all alternative versions to previous album tracks – as well as previously unreleased tracks. Taking in pulsating Krautrock, skeletal Post Rock, bludgeoning Psych and even an idiosyncratic take on the folk classic ‘Tam Lin’ (made famous by Fairport Convention), “COLLAPSAR…” collates and unearths the hidden chapters of MUGSTAR’s ongoing intergalactic travelogue.

MUGSTAR – COLLAPSAR (Skull Scorchers and Neuron Phasers – Singles & Rarities) is presented here as a luxurious double album package. Pressed on heavy vinyl and housed in a stunning gatefold sleeve – rich in visuals, band photos and information – tracing MUGSTAR’s history to date.

MUGSTAR – COLLAPSAR (Skull Scorchers and Neuron Phasers – Singles & Rarities) will be available to pre order from 1st December

To order this record – http://evilhoodoo.bigcartel.com/product/mugstar

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