GT ULTRA
by Guerilla Toss
Jonatin
Jonatin
This is what modern punk music should sound like. Experimental and fantastical, fast and to the point, and full of verve.
Favorite track: Dog In The Mirror.
Darin Tambascio
chris ross
Joseph Szyskowski
Aidan Feay
Erez Schatz
Alan
Lee Adcock
One-Dimensional Man
finanime
John Minkoff
Matthew Weyland
Troy Niemeyer
Alec Newell
Sam Hasan
Spaceman D
Ryan Bestford
Ross Auger
Sean Clancy
westomato
Brian Glenn
CLAY
Michael Fraser
Duncan Geddes
Paul A Blanco
dave alexander
robotpalace
drewregard
greenshift
Law_Their
Out of Step Music Hour
Brian Buggy
Gavin Thibodeau
Federico Blanco
Benjamin Hart
Sean Horvath
adam silverman
Good Morning, Captain Beefheart
Johnathan Rickman
juicynugget
Fangle
Liam Howard-Fabretto
Collins Ezeanyim
AM
Joseph Sanchez
Ira F. Cummings
Justin Ashby
JoseManuel Martinez
dazzlingday
maushoo
Tyler Termini
Steven Smith
Henry Widener
Cwirka
palewintrydusk
Ed Chan
Brandon Bridgewater
Andrew Waterloo
Dylan Bargteil
anoiyarre
joseph avon
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
$8 USD or more
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumIncludes unlimited streaming of GT ULTRA via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 2 days
$10 USD or more
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumVINYL OUT MAY 19 2017.
It is no mistake the album is wrapped in vintage blotter acid, created by legendary LSD archivist and artist Mark McCloud and The Institute of Illegal Images, based out of San Francisco. Inner sleeve art by Keith Rankin.
Includes unlimited streaming of GT ULTRA via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.ships out within 2 days$20 USD or more
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Can I Get The Real Stuff
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Crystal Run
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TV Do Tell
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Skull Pop
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Dog In The Mirror
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Dose Rate
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about
GT Ultra is the second full length album by Guerilla Toss on DFA Records. The album demonstrates a remarkable shift in sound, musicianship and songwriting, without ever giving up the unhinged quality that made their earlier recordings so exciting.
The album title GT Ultra is a clever nod to ‘Project MK Ultra’, the government sponsored experiments using new experimental drugs to explore mind control, torture and forced confessions, often with LSD as their drug of choice. These tests lasted from the mid 1950’s-1960’s, but with a new administration in the white house, government sponsored torture is fresh again on many minds.
The songs on the album ricochet back and forth between hyper bouncy pop and deeper darker longer, more nuanced tracks. Peter Negroponte’s drumming, always a major highlight for the band, are in full force once again, this time bringing a Nassau/Compass Point feel to many tracks, like the classic recordings of Grace Jones and Talking Heads.
Kassie’s vocals and lyrics are both more personal and more cryptic than ever. But you can hear every word this time, and there is a lyric sheet. As preferred, the meaning is within the listener. It is a dream state record for sure, meant to take you along on a similar vibe that the band has been tripping on these past few years, filled with an insistence to “hydrate, gyrate, think straight, no weight”, all the while under the influence of golden beams of orange sunshine, glimmering glitter and kaleidoscopic bursts.
It is no mistake the album is wrapped in vintage blotter acid, created by legendary LSD archivist and artist Mark McCloud and The Institute of Illegal Images, based out of San Francisco.
The album title GT Ultra is a clever nod to ‘Project MK Ultra’, the government sponsored experiments using new experimental drugs to explore mind control, torture and forced confessions, often with LSD as their drug of choice. These tests lasted from the mid 1950’s-1960’s, but with a new administration in the white house, government sponsored torture is fresh again on many minds.
The songs on the album ricochet back and forth between hyper bouncy pop and deeper darker longer, more nuanced tracks. Peter Negroponte’s drumming, always a major highlight for the band, are in full force once again, this time bringing a Nassau/Compass Point feel to many tracks, like the classic recordings of Grace Jones and Talking Heads.
Kassie’s vocals and lyrics are both more personal and more cryptic than ever. But you can hear every word this time, and there is a lyric sheet. As preferred, the meaning is within the listener. It is a dream state record for sure, meant to take you along on a similar vibe that the band has been tripping on these past few years, filled with an insistence to “hydrate, gyrate, think straight, no weight”, all the while under the influence of golden beams of orange sunshine, glimmering glitter and kaleidoscopic bursts.
It is no mistake the album is wrapped in vintage blotter acid, created by legendary LSD archivist and artist Mark McCloud and The Institute of Illegal Images, based out of San Francisco.
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released June 23, 2017
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