PHASE IV by ARTIFACTS & URANIUM with MITSURU TABATA

'Phase IV' follows A&U well received 'The Gateless Gate' album last year, but unlike that album 'Phase IV' moves into the shorter song territory and the bands line up is bolstered by Japanese legend TABATA MITSURU (Zeni Geva, Leningrad Blues Machine, Boredoms, Modoki, 20 Guilders, Green Flames, Acid Mothers Temple)

The album is co-released by Riot Season (UK/Europe) and Echodelick Records (US/North America) and it comes in a beautifully weird outer sleeve and pressed on jasmine yellow coloured vinyl. 300 copies for the world.

LP Tracklisting

A1. Yateveo (4:44)
A2. Life In The Air Raid (3:56)
A3. The Mind Alchemist (8:00)

B1. Kinetic Flux (6:33)
B2. My Dark Places (7:44)
B3. Phase IV (5:42)

From their own dark and unwholesome corner of the UK’s psychedelic netherworld Artifacts & Uranium have created another monster.

They’ve now moved up to Phase IV.

This outing sees multi-instrumentalist and sonic explorer Fred Laird (Empty House, Earthling Society) reunite with subsonic maestro Mike Vest (Bong, Drunk In Hell, Mienakunaru, Modoki, Tomoyuki Trio).

And, back from the subs' bench, their ’Pancosmology’ drummer Nick Raybould returns to the fold. Also, as a bonus, they have pulled in their cosmic counterpart from Japan, Mitsuru Tabata.

This four piece incarnation of Artifacts & Uranium make ’Phase IV’ a potent cocktail of beautifully brutal garage rock and dense swamp punk.

Cacophonous guitars and radio interference meld with a possessed propulsive rhythm section as baying synths howl at a voodoo moon.

It’s a malevolent beast. Every home should have one.

solo artist. based in tokyo, japan.
former groups :
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE
BOREDOMS
GASENETA
NOIZUNZURI
YBO2
ZENI GEVA
current groups :
GREEN FLAMES, RQRQ, THE STALIN XY, 20 GUILDERS, ZZZoo, etc

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