The Heavenly Bodes announce their debut album ‘Green Hills’ and drop another new single in the shape of ‘De Groene Heuvels’.

The Heavenly Bodes announce their debut album ‘Green Hills’ and drop another new single in the shape of ‘De Groene Heuvels’.  Recently signed to Fuzz Club, the first long-player from the Cornish garage-rockers lands July 3rd – pre-order it now on limited green or black wax here 

Recorded on reel-to-reel in a friend’s living room between trips to the beach, it features a collection of lo-fi garage-psych numbers that vary in feel – sometimes twisting and erratic, sometimes sedated and meandering – but all drenched in tape hiss and left out on the pebbles to dry. These are salad-days dreams of escapism melting under the summer sun, evoking the clammy rooms from which they came.

Following hot off the back of first single ‘Faux Pillars’, The Heavenly Bodes offer us another taste of their debut full-length with new single ‘De Groene Heuvels’. Coming in at just over two and a half minutes, ‘De Groene Heuvels’ is a lo-fi fuzzed out, guitar thrashing gem that is full of bounce and
strut.

"Much like the purchasing power of the Munten, ‘De Groene Heuvels’ succumbs to rapid inflation. It follows the account of a whirlwind weekend on a Dutch hillside. Leg twisting & eye twitching – ‘De Groene Heuvels’ feels like the struggle of staying upright on an uneven surface,” state the band.

Emerging from South Cornwall’s grassroots psych scene – through various chance encounters at Kernowbeat (formerly Kernow Psych Society) shows in Falmouth – The Heavenly Bodes channel a shared love of classic 60s acid-garage into something immediate and intimate, and specifically rooted in the here and now of the West Coast cornucopia they call home. Fully self-produced, it captures the band’s loose, unpolished spirit – landing somewhere between scrappy garage-rock abandon and woozy Velvets cool. It’s the sound of jangly surf riffs, hard-hitting bass grooves and hazy organ dissolving into the salty sea air.