NECKBOLT - "No Magic"

NECKBOLT: psych-noise rockers' "No Magic" video conjures Russian literature via "psychedelic weirdness and occult disturbances"; new album "(dream dump)" coming via Born Yesterday Records (Stuck, Lifeguard)

Texas/Oklahoma psych-noise-rock collective Neckbolt has released the official music video for new single "No Magic."

Stream the video here: https://www.treblezine.com/neckbolt-no-magic-video-trippy-lofi/

Pre-order new album, (dream dump), here: https://bornyesterday.limitedrun.com/products/745787-dream-dump

Treble calls the new song "an abrasive but catchy groove, backing a melody fit for an early record by The Flaming Lips, but with a heavier dose of bass and an overall more thunderous intensity."

Indeed, Neckbolt's sound is a psychedelic strain of noise-rock, belonging on the freakiest fringes of the genre, somewhere between The Flaming Lips, Lightning Bolt, Boredoms, Arab on Radar, Osees, and Chat Pile.

Treble desrcibes the new video as "a lo-fi VHS-style clip of psychedelic weirdness and occult disturbances."

Neckbolt vocalist James Roo states that the video was inspired by "The Invoker of the Beast," a short story by Russian writer Fyodor Sologub. "The story is about a man who sits in his house, feeling secure and not going outside. He is plagued with fevers, house sprites, and a spirit who forces him into reckoning with what could be a past life, or a sort of hidden layer of reality, where he abandoned a quest to kill 'The Beast.' Thematically, I liked the fact that the story is about breaking a spell of normal reality. The spirit of the main character's friend comes to him to awaken him from a secure existence that we can recognize to a degree, and bring him back to the task at hand, suggesting that the nature of his true existence is this sort of mythic and dangerous quest. I like this inversion of dreaming and waking: Magical dreaming is sitting in your room, and waking reality is a terrible and fantastic ordeal from which to hide."

Roo has stated that the entire new album, (dream dump), was inspired by dreams and dreaming. (dream dump) will be released September 22nd on Born Yesterday Records, the Chicago label owned by Greg Obis (Stuck) and Kevin Fairbairn (Deeper).

Tour:
Sep 30 - Austin, TX @ Chess Club
Oct 1 - Dallas, TX @ Double Wide
Oct 2 - Tulsa, OK @ The Whittier
Oct 3 - Kansas City, MO @ Howdy

Oct 4 - Chicago, IL @ Color Club

Oct 5 - St Paul, MN @ White Rock Lounge
Oct 6 - Omaha, NE @ The Sydney
Oct 7 - Oklahoma City, OK @ Resonant Head

More info: https://thechainworld.blogspot.com/2023/07/neckbolt-dream-dump.html

Photo by Blake Studdard