The Gruntled (Australia, Psych or Kraut)

Today let me recommend an Aussie tremendous psychedelic progressive rock outfit ... The GRUNTLED.



As their MySpace page says, The GRUNTLED started their career with a contribution for a cover of a '60s Australian garage punk song to Melbourne radio station 3CR's "Wild About You" ... amazingly. The founding members - Nick, Ricarda, Matt (on drums) - did The Missing Links' "You're Drivin' Me Insane", such a psychedelia-tinged old-fashioned song. Later Matt switched to a bass player and they recruited Richard as a guitarist, and John, then Skull, as "the drummers".

The GRUNTLED have already released a studio-recorded compilation (Compilation of recordings 2004-2008), two EPs (Live At 3PBS 2008, The Ball Of A Hundred Kings), and one DVD (The Ball Of A Hundred Kings: recorded in live at 3PBS in 2009).



We can be taken away into transcendental meditation by The Ball Of A Hundred Kings.

The GRUNTLED are an Australian Psych / Kraut / Avant improvised and multi-instrumental combo, and they crammed their essence into this EP. Various instrumental blows and shocking effective effects can be in. Based upon simple and sticky rhythm circumstance by deep bass and "the drums" sounds, a fuzzy cloudy guitar solo can be warped around. Electronic cosmic noises remind us some hypnotic (sometimes cataleptic) Krautrock texture. Sometimes much medieval or Oriental ideology flies into us through our ears. Their "world" opens widely step by step, like ritual in the dark and fire. We must palpitate more and more, as this world goes ahead. Namely, the former part is quiet and meditative as a funeral, the middle is aggressive as cannibalism, and the last is remarkably sublimate as a tribal rite ... absolutely drenched with soft sunlight, woody hillside air, misty rain, yeah natural power. 

In conclusion, let me say their music policy in this EP cannot be blurred or fluctuated at all. Consider they may always try to make us meditated into our deep subliminal ground.

Anyway, Richard also sent his "letter" to me ... what a good man!



Thanks a lot.