New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Melbourne's 60's tinged psych-rock punks The Murlocs brought their outrageous live show to euphoric crowds at LEVITATION festival last weekend and will perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre tomorrow alongside King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard with whom they share several band members. In celebration of their national headlining fall tour kicking off a week from today, the band has unleashed the "Living Under a Rock" (Live at the Forum) video. The electrifying video gives fans and critics an early taste of their explosive live performance. Fans will also have an opportunity to connect with the band directly at their Reddit r/indieheads AMA taking place Sunday, Nov 6 @ 7pmET (Monday, Nov 7 @ 9am Melbourne).
Frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith shares, "Some people live a sheltered life by choice and some people are born into it. 'Rapscallion' has had enough of living under a rock. It's time for a fresh start."
The Murlocs new studio album Rapscallion was released
September 16 via ATO Records. Strapped with fuzzy guitar licks, feverish bass and psychedelic brightness, it is a 12-track coming-of-age novel in an album form. Their most magnificently heavy work yet, the result is an endlessly enthralling album equally steeped in danger and delirium and the wide-eyed romanticism of youth.
Self-produced by the band in the early stages of the pandemic, Rapscallion was recorded remotely in the home studios of Kenny-Smith (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Callum Shortal (guitar), Matt Blach (drums), Cook
Craig (bass), and Tim Karmouche (keys). A truly dynamic musical collective, all five members also perform in other bands: Kenny-Smith and
Craig each play in the globally beloved King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Shortal plays guitar in ORB, and Karmouche and Blach are frontmen for Crepes and Beans, respectively.
The album's musical DNA contains strains of stoner-metal and the more primitive edge of post-punk. Despite that darker and more formidable sound, The Murlocs instill every track with the freewheeling energy they've brought to the stage while supporting such acts as Pixies, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees. Fans can experience the band's outrageous live show on an extensive headlining North American tour which kicks off November 7, making stops in NYC, Philadelphia, Seattle, LA,
Chicago and more.
