Music for the comedown.

File this one under:

Late Night /Long Drive/On Repeat /Acoustic Slow
Rocker/Dawn is already here/Let's keep driving

Phonoss has put out a pretty rad sounding lo-fi mini album of chunky raw textures. It's a deceptively easy listen, this short-player, with solid rock grounding it's somewhat alt-?-folk tendencies. Speaking of folk, you can hear the influence of indie fok-rocker Daniel Gannaway in the mixing and production. He's done a great job at presenting the obvious song talent that Phonoss has, combined with Stan Leboy's little electronic contributions, the songs fill out nicely. Not one of these songs sounds conventional in arrangement, but all possess great hooks. Song 3 'sour' [which I note was also on a very recent release by kidameln -the kidamel lo-fi- leading me to wonder: is Phonoss Michael Brennan?], is probably the long player of the album and maybe the most conventional in form, bringing to mind Monster Magnet with it's funeral dirge-like casio tone organ sound floating in the background. Personal favourite 'trip to the moon' with it's obvious departure leanings and bizarre space talk bridge, closely followed by 'Fine' and the rest of the album. They all rock and roll you along in their own way. I thought I'd reached the end of the album at 'Waterfall day', but a nice little bonus comes in the form of 'this is for you' which launches in a minute later in a very tribute to Queens of the Stone Age fashion. A great stoner rock track care of 'The Stung'. Whoever The Stung are, they rock, at least they do in this Phonoss version.

DRILL MAG

>> Interview with Phonoss @ AllInTune