Black Sabbath, Spacemen 3, Hawkwind, Can, Faust, the Jesus Lizard, the Mike
Gunn, Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Neil Young, Peter Brotzmann, Blue Cheer, the Butthole Surfers, the Velvet Underground, Loop, Black Flag, the MC5, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Devo, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Neu!, 13th floor Elevators, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Syd Barrett, Kraftwerk, Willie Dixon, Minutemen, The Replacements, Eddie Hazel, Brian Eno, The Party Owls, Steve Reich, Sonic Youth, Soft Boys, John Cage, Camper Van Beethoven, Albert Ayler, Dick Dale, Einstruzende Neubaten, Amon Duul II, Pussy Galore, The Stooges, The Bevis Frond, John Lennon, Ken Nordine, Rudy Ray Moore, Terry Riley, Stanislaw Lem, H.P. Lovecraft, Florence Foster Jenkins, The Shaggs, Grand Funk, Lou Reed, Slint, Barry White, Bill Hicks, Bukka White, Lighning Hopkins, Daniel Johnson, David Bowie, Elliot Smith, The EX, Gang of Four, Huun-Hur Tu, James Brown, Jimmy Smith, John Fahey, Bevis Frond, Louis Jordan, Marc Ribot, Mats Gustaffsen, The Birthday Party, Otis Redding, Pavement, Popul Vuh, Rocket From the Tombs, Roy Smeck, ST-37, Sterolab, Tom Waits, Tom Cora, Willie Nelson, Rolling Stones, Shiner Beer, Ptolemaic terrascope, Douglas Hoffstader, Herman Mellville, Flaming Lips, Leo Kottke, Jimi Hendrix, Glenn Branca, Television, Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Klaus Nomi, Klaus Kinski, and that guy, you know the one.
Sounds Like
Black Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Spacemen 3, Hawkwind, Can, the Jesus Lizard, the Mike Gunn, the Dunlavy, Captain Beefheart, Blue Cheer, Television, the Stooges, the MC5, the Butthole Surfers, and ASS.
The LP4 has been carrying the Texas Psych torch since the MidA Brief History-
The LP4 has been carrying the Texas Psych torch since the
Mid-90s. Following in the footsteps of the Mike Gunn and Dry Nod this seven
member quartet has been praised in the pages of Ptolemaic Terrascope (UK), Rockerrilla (Italy), Magnet (USA), Broken Face (Sweden), et al. and has recently concluded its fruitful
relationship with September
Gurls records in Germany.
Additonally in the first week of December 2007 there will be a Limited 13 CDR release as part of John Melia's Grey Ghost Series. The single for Grey Ghost 48 is called "HAWG!" and was originally slated for "All Things are Light" but due to time limits of vinyl - the song ended up on the editing room floor.
"They look like, maybe I think, what the Goonies would look like today."- As told to Lance Scott Walker by one of the editors or 002 Magazine
First off, it's almost
impossible to describe its music in some kind of pithy rock-crit manner.
Psychedelic space metal for the Mensa set is about the best we could come up
with, and it doesn't quite encompass all that the LP4 does. It's not quite a
stoner rock band, nor pure psych rock. Some songs could be likened to the
spacey Britpop of Super Furry Animals and Spiritualized, or even early Pink
Floyd, but members also bust out with a little hardcore here and there and
even occasionally cloak themselves in the black garb of a death metal band. In
short, they sound like a pretty large swath of the totally unique Houston rock
scene all rolled into a single group.
Houston Press (USA)
"A large red sticker proclaiming
WEIRD ALERT could not make things plainer."- Q Magazine (UK)
"one of the top purveyors of
the Texas stoner psychedelic style" Free City Media (USA)
spaced out metal and ultra
heavy psychedelia that will appeal to anyone who likes.... well... spaced out
metal and ultra heavy psychedelia. - Aural Innovations (USA)
Like Slater says in Dazed and
Confused, "You couldn't handle that shit on strong acid, man." On second
thought, maybe that's the only way you could." Austin Chronicle
(USA)
"...possibly the most enigmatic
yet bombastic rock band to emerge out of Texas in the last 10 years."
- The Broken Face (Sweden)
"Anthemic, stupid and selflessly
unrestrained, the LPQ eventually attain self immolation of sorts during the
sprawling chaos."-Ptolemaic Terrascope (UK)
" [the band] should consider
doing a few less bonghits" - Option Magazine
Who we'd like to meet here-
After a short bit of the usual Myspace friend trolling we quickly realized how annoying and stupid that is. Therefore, we are looking for real fans and also bands with whom we are actually friends in the real world or at the very least like minded bands who we'd like to meet and whom we admire. Yes, we've grown to hate the myspace "I have a million friends" schtick. So you won't see very many friends and you call us the Anti-myspace friend band but to quote Bill Hicks we'd "rather have a few minds in the room than a couple thousand asses in seats". I know it's cool in some camps to have a huge fake "friend collection" we just think it's utterly stupid.
Therefore if you want to be our friend you must to e-mail us along with your friend request.
Thanks guys! For all the Houston haters, there are some things totally fuckin awesome about it. i give them LP4 and tell stories of yore. oh and there's that rothko chapel thing too...you just have to ignore the pollution a lil. xoxo
get some vinyl already. do we have to pick up all the pychedelic slack in this town? geez.....can a 2 piece be overbooked? ever hear of drummers' fatigue? c'mon already.
