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Product Description Psychedelic rockers HARSH TOKE explore sound and space through music. On the San Diego Acid Rock band's debut album Light Up and Live, loud, heavy guitars, swimming bass lines and smashing drums warp to full throttle, working together to launch the group's "Haze Maze" of unapologetic psychedelic-blues into interstellar overdrive. Recorded by Brian Ellis (also of the prog-rock band ASTRA) and mastered by Carl Saff (Earthless, OFF!, Unsane), HARSH TOKE's Light Up and Live will be released on November 19 via Tee Pee. Led by ripping pro skater and rip-roaring guitarist Justin "Figgy" Figueroa, HARSH TOKE are equal parts atmospheric and anarchic, merging raging, blind fury musicianship with unprecedented white-knuckle volume abuse. Tense and surreal, HARSH TOKES' songs slowly build from hallucinatory haze into grand overtures of noise and feedback; a cosmic buffet of pounding, pummeling and punishing planes of sound. Heavy. Cosmic. Kinetic. HARSH TOKE lay down sizzling grooves with every needle on the soundboard pinned to the red. If Blue Cheer could be called "Louder than God" in 1968, forty five years later, HARSH TOKE can easily be pegged as "Louder than Satan." Run for your lives - into the din. Review ''Harsh Toke's space-rock will take your mind on a cosmic journey through the rings of Saturn and back again. They've transcended the plateau of time and space and their galactic forefathers from the '70s underground would be very proud to call them their own. Inhale deep and take it down you sissy.'' -- --FrontWith a name like Harsh Toke, you might know what you're in for. Heavy, relentless blues-metal guitar in constant jam mode with no off switch? Pounding drums and fuzzy, incense smoke-reeking basslines? Swimming psychedelia of the most impaired variety? Harsh Toke deliver all of the above on their self-titled debut full-length album, with just four tracks stretching into some cosmic exploration over the album's 40-odd minute running time. Like a hazy dream, the band segue from the Sabbath-worshiping album-opener ''Rest in Prince'' directly into a breakdown of random percussion and watery flutes on the beginning of the epic suite ''Weight of the Sun,'' which transitions from its gentle Popol Vuh-reminiscent beginnings into a loopy, narcotic blur of delayed guitars and screaming organ nightmares. Clearly from the same school of jamming and mind expansion that gave us great albums like Sleep's ''Dopesmoker,'' but dialing back the heavy doom and dread that characterized that record, Harsh Toke gets into stoner jams as unhinged, ecstatic, and wandering as some of the greats. There's a slight cartoonishness that comes with the revivalism of acid rock's early days, but despite weed-centric titles like ''Light Up and Live,'' Harsh Toke mostly keep the focus on their restless, druggy rhythms and the interplay between guitarist Justin Figueroa's endless edge-of-the-world soloing and vocalist/organist Gabe Messer's psychedelic keyboard washes. The band even get into more outlandish territory on the ten-minute album-closer ''Plug Into the Moon,'' with the addition of a saxophone player as wild and unglued as the rest of the band in his epic jamming. The song recalls the same wanton, desperate energy of ''L.A. Blues,'' the sax/noise closer to the Stooges ''Fun House,'' and it constructs similar walls of unhinged noise, menace, and transcendence with its barrage of sound. --All Music Guide, November, 2013
K**A
Three Stars
Not to bad
M**E
Excellent stoner-rock!
Great stoner-rock from left-field! Never heard of before, but this album will grab your attention. High quality music!
A**N
Killer
Great album if you're looking to have your face melted off.
A**O
good one,
Space rock band,,good one,,,
C**R
Pure hallucinatory guitar freak-outs
San Diego debut—four massive journeys deep into the land of psychedelic guitar rock mania. Pure hallucinatory guitar freak-outs with some stellar, blasting lead work that recalls bands like Earthless, Electric Moon, Sleep, Hawkwind. This is full immersion with no safety harness!
F**A
Yeah man... !!!!
Aufmerksam auf Harsh Toke bin ich durch das Roadburn-Festival geworden (wo ich auch die große Ehre hatte bei zwei Auftritten von denen beiwohnen zu dürfen). Also, was diese vier Typen hier auf ihrem (wohlgemerkten) Debüt abliefern ist sensationell. Sie sehen nicht nur aus als wären sie aus den 60er/70ern direkt hier her transportiert worden, sondern solche Musik spielen sie auch. Über große Teile instrumental, aber mit so einer Spielfreude, dass man beinahe schon selbst zur Gitarre greifen will. Besonderes Highlight des Albums ist für mich "Light up and live". Beginnt mit ner ruhigen Bass-/Drumline um dann (man darf den Titel wörtlich nehmen) in einen furiosen, vernebelten Jam aufzugehen.Für Fans von Black Sabbath, frühen Pink Floyd, Stoner Rock & Doom-Bands eigentlich ein Pflichtkauf!!! Jetzt schon eins der Alben des Jahres
M**Y
Light Up And Live - Harsh Toke
Grande disco di esordio di per la band emergente di Harsh Toke. Stoner rock e psicadelia si fondono nei brani di questo disco consigliato per gli amanti del genere.Spedizione molto veloce
J**S
BUENO
BUEN LP
G**D
Defect
Record was warped :(
U**4
Gar nicht mein Ding
Hatte mich sehr auf das Album gefreut. Leider für mich ein fast unerträgliches Gejiddel. Da hatte ich andere nicht ganz so komplexe Dinge von der Gruppe erwartet.
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