On tour this August in the UK: a pair of free-minded avant/psych combos: Texans via Vienna Primordial Undermind and Thought forms from Bath. Check them out here:
Fri 8 the Cooler Bristol
Sat 9 Old Blue Last London, w/Mondo Cana
Sun 10 Islington Mill Manchester, w/ Acid Mother's Temple, Gnod
Tue 12 Man on the Moon Cambridge
Wed13 13th Note Glasgow, w/ Fail-Davidson
thu 14 Old Swan Wrexham
fri 15 Abbeydale Sheffield, w/ Other Orchestra, Tarana
sat 16 tba (Termite Club) Leeds
Primordial Undermind: A rotating membership and a restlessness to stay put typifies the band, underlying a steady progression from distorted, psychedelic overload to full-blown instrumental freedom, and everything in between. Just before relocating from Austin,TX to Vienna, Austria, the band recorded 'Loss of Affect' for the Strange Attractors label. They've released 5 previous albums on Emperor Jones, Camera Obscura, and September Gurls. "Reverberating with primitive hallucinogenic drones, garage rock grinds, and improvisations that slowly build from half-formed blowouts to cosmic Stockhausen-style epics... PU have crawled out of the psychedelic undergrowth and evolved into something special" - Edwin Pouncey, The Wire
http://www.myspace.com/primordialundermind
http://www.last.fm/music/Primordial+Undermind
Thought forms came together early 2004 starting from a freeform electric miasma of buzzing circuits and colourful sunsets. The band gathers up sparking shards of sound into tuneful bliss, only to abandon it into gloriously spastic directions. Gnarly feedback, screams and effects-eaten riffs become hypnoticaly interwoven constructions. They effortlessly reference Slowdive and Loop as gracefully as they evoke the modern spacerock crowd. Thought forms are veterans of ATP (12/2007, curated by Portishead), and of Terrastock 6. "post-rock like crepuscular fogged x-rays, teasing graceful drones from two guitars and a loose-limbed drummer. They've got the quiet/loud thing nailed and sections of their set have great delicacy, like the faint squalling signals from dying stars" - Venue Magazine
http://www.thought-forms.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/thoughtforms
