New York heavy rock trio The Golden Grass stream their fourth full-length album »Life Is Much Stranger«, out now via Heavy Psych Sounds

Brooklyn, New York based heavy rock trio The Golden Grass stream their fourth full-length album, »Life Is Much Stranger«, which just dropped this Friday, April 7th, 2023 via Heavy Psych Sounds.

Tracklist:
01. Howlin
02. Springtime On Stanwoods
03. Island In Your Head
04. 100 Arrows
05. Not Without Its Charm
06. The Answers Never Know
07. A Peculiar Situation

Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:

»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…

This album was conceived over the past several years, through chaos and confusion, during a global pandemic that forced the band to work in new/unconventional ways they had never before imagined. The music on this album has never seen an audience. These songs have never been performed. And in fact, the recording of the album was the first time the members of the group even understood what their new creations sounded like! The initial writing sessions began in the summer of 2019, but were obviously halted in early 2020 due to the situation. Over the next two years, the band did their best to move forward with the process but rehearsals were infrequent, sickness and health threats always barking at the door, and a constant unknown of what was to come; was there any future for their art at all?…But slowly and disjointedly, they assembled their musical ideas into 7 rough pieces that would soon comprise »Life Is Much Stranger«.

The Golden Grass »Life Is Much Stranger« out April 7th on Heavy Psych Sounds: European pre-order // US pre-order

From Sept-Oct of 2022, the group worked with a team of engineers across three studios in NYC, recording and mixing the tracks, sculpting their rough song-forms into polished, yet quite surreal, glistening gems! 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…and it sounds fucking great!

Recommended for fans of Dust, Captain Beyond, The Pretty Things, Jo Jo Gunne, Traffic, Demian, Highway Robbery, T2, Icecross and Hard Stuff!

The Golden Grass is:
Adam Kriney – Drums / Lead Vocals
Michael Rafalowich – Guitars / Lead Vocals
Frank Caira – Bass / Backing Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well