Video: Stardeath And White Dwarfs, The Sea is on Fire

While acid punk purveyors  Stardeath & White Dwarfs are often mentioned in the same sentence as their friends The Flaming Lips - as both hail from Oklahoma, tour together, and just released their collaborative re-imagining o f Dark Side of the Moon late last year - the strength of their debut, The Birth , and their theatrical live show stands on its own merits. Stardeath & White Dwarfs's brand of fuzzed-out psychedelia gives up "what up" nod to The Swirlies, Spacemen 3, The Helio Sequence, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and Grandaddy, and synthesizes such celestial meditations into a personable, [...]

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Frickin' lasers. And fog. Heavy, heavy fog, that makes the people who are standing next to you look like zombies in a cemetery. Stardeath And White Dwarfs ' self-released, but not self-contained, debut EP "That's Cool" , is packed with shoegaze-y soul and burnout rhythm. The opening track, "Spring Time In Martha Stewart's Head" lingers at a slow instrumental pace until it builds and churns out crunch-filled, droning main and backing vocals laid underneath angular guitar riffage. The tracks that follow show further experimentation and bravado, employing great use of theremin, weird vocal-clips and a catchy, [...]

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