Behavioral Futures Market Excess Angular Dephasing Unexpected Visitor Interzone Five Eyes Spectral Nation Death as Spectacle Blue Radiation Into the Black Hole
Release date: September 4, 2025
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BLUE RADIATION trades language for sensation, guiding listeners through warped dimensions of radiant noise. Recorded during the pandemic at our garage in a weirdly quiet São Paulo, these ten tracks—nine instrumental pieces and a slower, heavier version of ‘The Black Hole’—unfold like visions from another world: angular, spectral, iridescent.
Firefriend | Blue Radiation (2025, mixed colour). This is one of the top tier psychedelic rock bands in the world. Because they basically go for it in creating mind-altering sounds and rhythms and at times basically a noise band but with strong songwriting. Like a shoegaze band that was influenced heavily by Black Sabbath and maybe Bardo Pond, Sleep and the like. This is all live stuff from 2020 to 2022. If previously released these versions veer off into different tonal places. I have most of their records and they're all cool. I feel a kinship with what this band is doing because it's songs are also political, I'd say leftist, and smart. The song titles alone say a lot. They're from São Paulo, Brazil and have seen heavy political situations go down. That gives the music a sense of genuinely subversive energy and breaking with convention. Hope to see them someday. I included bits of "Behavioral Futures Market" and "Five Eyes," I believe. This record is more experimental in its soundscapes than the other record Firefriend put out this year but both are amazing. Firefriend | Fuzz (2025, red in black vinyl). This record is more rock song oriented but still the weird, wild and dangerous sound that makes this band so cool. This sounds like the studio album because the sonics are more forward. Clearly also political and aiming at the corrupt government and unfortunate social situations. I included clips of "Spearhead" and "Raw Violence."