| Toronto space rock cosmonauts Comet Control will re-enter the atmosphere onJune 24 with their stargazed sophomore album, Center Of The Maze (Tee Pee Records). The band features vocalist / guitarist Chad Ross and guitarist Andrew Moszynski, each formerly of heavy psych champions Quest For Fire and garage rockers The Dead Snakes. The powerhouse musicians are joined in Comet Control by Nicole Howell(bass), Jay Anderson (drums) and Christopher Sandes (keys). In advance of the record's release, the band premieres the new song, "Criminal Mystic", via Exclaim!, who exhalt, "Electronic buzz collides with totally righteous rock 'n' roll riffs, while hazy vocals add the finishing touch on the onslaught of cosmic psychedelia". Hear Comet Control's "Criminal Mystic" at THIS location. "When I started writing the lyrics and recording the vocals, I cut out the world for a while," Ross tells Exclaim! "I set up in a backyard garage studio in Toronto's west end by myself. I was re-reading The Road, and also some paranoid sci-fi. Generally uplifting stuff. The songs became dystopian westerns, set in space. Paranoia, beehives, human illness, sobriety and criminal activity all came to light. It's a general idea, to be 'comfortable getting lost.'" Engineered by Josh Korody (Fucked Up, Moon King) at Candle Recording, and mastered by Carl Saff (Sweet Apple, Earthless), Center of the Maze is the follow-up to Comet Control's 2014 self-titled debut, which was hailed as "psychedelia that surfs across the bluesy drone of The Black Angels and the melodic spaciousness of Swervedriver" by The A.V. Club. Flooded with swirling synths, ghostly vocals and fuzz-bomb guitars that burst into flames in electrifyingly airborne ways, Center Of The Maze effortlessly merges the ethereal and the terrestrial. The album is a 43-minute collection of blinding explosions and brilliant fade-outs. Overdriven riffs reign supreme and songs build with a mantra-like power before collapsing into majestic dreaminess. Like watching a rocket take off at close range, the sound of Comet Control is both exhilarating and mesmerizing, propelled into orbit by unwavering melody and unhinged creativity.
"Center Of the Maze" Track Listing: 1.) Dig Out Your Head
2.) Darkness Moves
3.) Silver Spade
4.) The Hive
5.) Criminal Mystic
6.) Golden Rule
7.) Sick in Space
8.) Artificial Light |
