Lonesome Cybernetic Drifter on Mars (or Lo-Fi Morricone-esque in Space)

by Volcano Kings

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Matt DeMello (himself) Easily, 2021's Most Accurate Album Title. 'Lonesome..' is a bold step in VKs' current arc: crossing from post-rock into more rural territory, and expanding the dimensions wherever their muses have warranted a cinematic adjective. Favorite track: Abandoned Planets.

Waxpancakehunter this album jettisoned my brain into the upper atmosphere through a hazy cloud of volcanic spaghetti dust Favorite track: Tharsis Montes Gundown.

Soylent Chiba Probably the best goddamn thing I've heard in my entire life. Each note on this exquisite album makes my hair stand on end. Favorite track: 3000 A.D..

YomaBarr You had me at "detuned guitars made to sound like a violin orchestra", also that metal garbage bin is awesome ;) This is really a soundtrack to some film noir long forgotten in an abandoned repository on, why not, Mars. Or more simply, space(y) crime jazz. And it's great.

Blackula Jonez One of a kind sound, post rock meets Ennio Morricone. Albums come out of nowhere so I pay homage when the rare opportunity presents itself. Groovy & atmospheric as always.

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1.	Tharsis 02:54	buy track
2.	3000 A.D. 05:36	buy track
3.	Lonesome Cybernetic Drifter 04:25	buy track
4.	Hellas Basin Transport 04:09	buy track
5.	Here Come The Electric Dust Storms 07:41	buy track
6.	Death In New Juarez 05:09	buy track
7.	Tharsis Montes Gundown 04:32	buy track
8.	Abandoned Planets 05:11	buy track
9.	Mechanical Beasts 08:20	buy track
10.	The Galaxy Moves On 05:42	buy track

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Sellers Note: We used real amplifiers, amp reverb explosions, real trumpets, trumpets through octave pedals and distortion, Cellos, Trash Metals, Metal Pipes, Bongos, Tambourines, Cabasas, Maracas, Plastic Buckets, Full Kit Drums, Tons of Guitars through myriad stomp box effects, a few Detuned Guitars played with a slide to sound like a violin orchestra, real Bass guitars were used and at one time a real Harmonica was used. All these instruments were performed by various members of the Volcano Kings.

Keyboards such as The Nord Electro 2, Yamaha Xk2 organ and a Moog Lil Phatty were used and played by human hands as well. The Nord was run through a Melotron Effect pedal to create a futuristic synth-orchestra sound in "Lonesome Cybernetic Drifter"

We hope the result resembles a lonely, lawless Mars in a distant future where it has long been the focus of an arduous unrealized terraforming project by transhuman or cybernetic earthlings.

The majority of the Album was DIY.
'Hellas Basin Transport' was recorded at 'Machines with Magnets' by Seth Manchester.
The album was self mixed. It is rather Lo Fi. It is our hope that the Lo FI quality might actually heighten your enjoyment.

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released August 25, 2021

All Songs Written by Volcano Kings except: 'Abandoned Planets', 'Lonesome Cybernetic Drifter' and 'The Galaxy Moves On' by John Javert Quincy Adams. 'Hellas Basin Transport' was written by Alec Tisdale.
Volcano Kings- All Instruments
Seth Manchester- Engineering and recording of "Hellas Basin Transport"
The Perseverance Rover- Wind Sound
NASA- Other Samples and Cover Art.

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Soundtrack, Surf Rock, Lounge Core, Post Rock, Spaghetti Western, Crime Jazz, Doom.

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