Album artwork for Under The Strawberry Moon by Blacklab

Fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, doom, stoner, more fuzz. Welcome to the world of Blacklab. Blacklab describe themselves as ‘the Dark Witch Doom Duo from Osaka Japan’. However, when it comes to witches, they are more the spectral Sadako from ‘The Ring’ than campy ‘Countess Dracula’. Chilling cool with built in overdrive. Yuko and Chia areundoubtedly immersed in the Japanese stoner doom scene, and it’s no surprise that with this first offering, they’ve pulled out a calling card that is as ‘in yer face’ and arresting as anything out there. A full frontal assault of distorted riffs, howls and ghostly vocals, as well as bags of riot girrl attitude and lo-fi bravado. In fact, listening to them brings back that frisson of excitement you got (those who may beold enough to remember) when you heard Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff for the first time. But grunge they are not, and neither arethey ‘occult rock’ as such. Being nominally a ‘Doom’ band, expect a bucket load of Sabbath worship for sure, but Blacklab have a vibeand experimental undertow akin more to their countrymen ‘Boris’ and the souped up lo-fi fuzz of Ty Segall or Comets On Fire. Trackslike ‘Black Moon’ ‘Hidden Garden’ ‘Spoon’ ‘Symptom Of The Blacklab’ (which starts like Sabbath ... then thrashes somewhere else), twist, burn and boil into the red. ‘His Name Is ...’ is a churning chunky throb. ‘Spoon’ and ‘Warm Death’ offer moments of relief and crushing noise. And ‘Big Muff’ is ... well ... 9 minutes of drum-less fuzz, that will probably do serious damage to your speakers. What’s not to love. This first Blacklab release on NHS, is a version of their Under The Strawberry Moon album which was released in tiny numbers on CD only in Japan, a pull together of previous tracks and new songs recorded over 2017. But the NHS variant is different. Wayne Adams (Death Pedals, Shitwife, Vodun, Casual Nun) noise guru at Bear Bites Horse Studio, has remixed the tracks to maximum effect, upping the fuzz and weight of the originals, to create Under The Strawberry Moon 2.0. exclusively for NHS. You will not be disappointed.

LP - Limited to 300 copies. In 2 colour Black / Orange half and half vinyl. Included is a free CD of the album.

CD - Housed in a 4 panel digipack with lyric booklet.

Blacklab

Under The Strawberry Moon

New Heavy Sounds
Album artwork for Under The Strawberry Moon by Blacklab
CD

£10.99

Housed in a 4 panel digipack with lyric booklet.

Released 20/07/2018Catalogue Number

nhscd024

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Blacklab

Under The Strawberry Moon

New Heavy Sounds
Album artwork for Under The Strawberry Moon by Blacklab
CD

£10.99

Housed in a 4 panel digipack with lyric booklet.

Released 20/07/2018Catalogue Number

nhscd024

Learn more

Fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, doom, stoner, more fuzz. Welcome to the world of Blacklab. Blacklab describe themselves as ‘the Dark Witch Doom Duo from Osaka Japan’. However, when it comes to witches, they are more the spectral Sadako from ‘The Ring’ than campy ‘Countess Dracula’. Chilling cool with built in overdrive. Yuko and Chia areundoubtedly immersed in the Japanese stoner doom scene, and it’s no surprise that with this first offering, they’ve pulled out a calling card that is as ‘in yer face’ and arresting as anything out there. A full frontal assault of distorted riffs, howls and ghostly vocals, as well as bags of riot girrl attitude and lo-fi bravado. In fact, listening to them brings back that frisson of excitement you got (those who may beold enough to remember) when you heard Mudhoney’s Superfuzz Bigmuff for the first time. But grunge they are not, and neither arethey ‘occult rock’ as such. Being nominally a ‘Doom’ band, expect a bucket load of Sabbath worship for sure, but Blacklab have a vibeand experimental undertow akin more to their countrymen ‘Boris’ and the souped up lo-fi fuzz of Ty Segall or Comets On Fire. Trackslike ‘Black Moon’ ‘Hidden Garden’ ‘Spoon’ ‘Symptom Of The Blacklab’ (which starts like Sabbath ... then thrashes somewhere else), twist, burn and boil into the red. ‘His Name Is ...’ is a churning chunky throb. ‘Spoon’ and ‘Warm Death’ offer moments of relief and crushing noise. And ‘Big Muff’ is ... well ... 9 minutes of drum-less fuzz, that will probably do serious damage to your speakers. What’s not to love. This first Blacklab release on NHS, is a version of their Under The Strawberry Moon album which was released in tiny numbers on CD only in Japan, a pull together of previous tracks and new songs recorded over 2017. But the NHS variant is different. Wayne Adams (Death Pedals, Shitwife, Vodun, Casual Nun) noise guru at Bear Bites Horse Studio, has remixed the tracks to maximum effect, upping the fuzz and weight of the originals, to create Under The Strawberry Moon 2.0. exclusively for NHS. You will not be disappointed.

LP - Limited to 300 copies. In 2 colour Black / Orange half and half vinyl. Included is a free CD of the album.

CD - Housed in a 4 panel digipack with lyric booklet.