These guys were a highlight of my addled Psycho Las Vegas 2022 experience back in August and their new video for “Graveyard” is a further reminder of the wholesome-toned earliest-Mars Red Sky vibes that persist across their 2021 debut album, Ultra (review here). The timing on the new clip is somewhat unexpected, since that record came out last Sept., but there are any number of reasons why Kadabra might put it out now. Maybe it took a year to make. That shit certainly happens with these things. Or maybe they just wanted to give an extra push after a while to move some records, which getting more people to hear this song is bound to do. Or maybe it might be a way to herald something new, either a preface for a tour or a new studio work, album, etc., to be announced in the coming weeks. Or something else entirely. I simply don’t know, and this just kind of showed up in my recommendations and I saw it was listed as new. For all I know the band posted it last year and the label, Heavy Psych Sounds, just put it up under their own account.

In any case, it hasn’t been posted here before, so I’m glad to get it up now, purely because the track is awesome and the record remains killer, whether the Spokane, Washington, three-piece are about to do another one or not. Among the reasons to be excited at the prospect that they are is that it would mean the band thought enough of the response to the first putting to keep the band going as more than a one-off — because I don’t think Kadabra is anyone in Kadabra’s only band — and given the strength of their material on Ultra, they showed some serious potential for growth that it would be cool to see (hear) realized. I didn’t think Ultra got the attention it deserved, but that’s no reason for the band not to make a follow-up if they’re even remotely inclined toward doing so.

We’ll find out, I suppose, and if I see word of their doing something new in 2023, or touring, or whatever, I’ll post when I see it. You know how it goes.

Enjoy the clip:

Kadabra, “Graveyard” official video

GRAVEYARD is KADABRA first single taken from the band’s latest album ULTRA. Out September 2021 via Heavy Psych Sounds.

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Written throughout the 2020 global pandemic, Kadabra’s debut album “Ultra” presents an aesthetic that nears that “classic rock” charm and energy. The group has meshed together the droned flow of psychedelic clamor with an abrasive fuzzed riff drive. The sound is a mixture of psychedelic rock and hard rock riffing, vocals are choral and magnetic. In the fall of 2020, KADABRA enter the studio to record “Ultra” with producer Dawson Scholz : 7 brand new tracks for a fresh debut album: ULTRA keep the listener awake until the last minute of the album, with a variety of chill atmospheres. You can listen strong influences of Dead Meadow, Pentagram.

KADABRA is:
Garrett Zanol (Vocals/Guitar)
Ian Nelson (Bass)
Chase Howard (Drums)

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