Magnetic Anomaly

From the desert city of Tucson, Arizona comes Cobra Family Picnic, a band that has long shared stages with Moon Duo, White Manna and Mugstar even before releasing their debut album Magnetic Anomaly in 2017. Sulatron Records is now bringing the recordings, originally released with the british labels Cardinal Fuzz and Sky Lantern Records, to Europe as a CD edition.

Across nine tracks a fuzzy, bleached sound cloud emerges, traversing the history of underground psych. The hypnotic keyboard pulse of Suicide, the go-go freakout of Les Rallizes Dénudés, the circling grooves of Neu! and the sound of early Doors. When real NASA radio transmissions are played between the three Interplanetary Travel interludes and singer Randall Dempsey's voice full of reverb emerges from the darkness, it feels as if you're being send directly into space.

Magnetic Anomaly is dusty, hot and hypnotic all at once. Desert psych, as it can only grow under the Arizona sun.

Cobra Family Picnic are
Lesli Wood – keys, tambourine, space module
Boyd Peterson – bass
Daniel Thomas – drums
Connor Gallaher – electric guitar
Randall Dempsey – vocals