Brooklyn-based classic rockers THE GOLDEN GRASS unleash a groove-laden new song taken from their new album "Life Is Much Stranger", due out April 7th on Heavy Psych Sounds. Listen to "Springtime On Stanwoods" courtesy of It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine!
About the song: “Springtime on Stanwoods tells the tale of one Philadelphia man's struggle to escape the toxic hostility overcoming his household to not only get free but also to unlock the possibilities of attending to unfinished business. Beyond the prison-like untenable conditions at home and other obstacles lies the potential for future victory. While told from the male perspective, this first-person narrative is still elliptical enough to be applicable to anyone to whom this situation is all too familiar. The hard-driving music alternates between major and minor keys and illustrates the journey from gloomy to triumphant, with an instrumental break that sweeps from melancholy malaise to fiery determination. Let the Golden Grass be your key and show you the way to get free.”
"Life Is Much Stranger" is the mind-blowing fourth studio album from NYC heavy rock trio THE GOLDEN GRASS, standing tall and wild and towering above their entire discography. It is a massive sonic adventure, a post-modern collage of rock'n'roll ideology, swelling and bursting with hard, heavy and progressive musical energies: the past is inside the present, and The Golden Grass are moving the sound forward! It has always been their goal to connect the dots between their influences and reconcile disparate vintage ideas that perhaps never coexisted in their original place and time. To give life to a new artistic vision that synergizes them together like a warm blanket, both familiarly ancient and cosmically in the "now". The Golden Grass concoct their magick brew and are able to conceptualize and materialize music in such a particular way that it screams timelessly from long ago, but could only happen in this very moment. Life is much stranger after all….
In the fall of 2022, the group worked with a team of engineers across three studios in NYC, and when they emerged with a finished product, the bizarre and strange events of the previous 3 years all melted into a perfect picture, a complete totality, crystal clear, wholly avant-garde and spellbinding! “Life Is Much Stranger” is an amalgamation of hard rock boogie, jazzy progressive rock, psychedelic exploration and incendiary proto-metal all bursting with soulful harmony-layered vocals, masterful instrumental technicality and an otherworldly creative ambition. Recommended for fans of Dust, Captain Beyond, The Pretty Things, Traffic, Highway Robbery...
