Name: Strength of Spring
Brand: Grave Flowers Bongo Band

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CF131

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Colour

Black

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-05-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

733102720087

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

CF131CD

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733102720094

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

CF131X

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Yellow

Neon yellow

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Extended format: Yes

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / yellow

Artist

Grave Flowers Bongo Band

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Castle Face

Welcome to Castle Face, a California-based music label founded by John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees, Matt Jones, and Brian Lee Hughes. With an impressive roster of talented artists and performers, Castle Face is known for its unique blend of genres and commitment to delivering exceptional music to fans worldwide.

Since its inception, Castle Face has been at the forefront of the independent music scene, consistently releasing groundbreaking albums that push boundaries and defy expectations. From garage rock to psychedelic pop, our diverse catalog offers something for every discerning listener.

With a reputation for nurturing emerging talent and supporting established acts alike, Castle Face remains dedicated to providing a platform for artists to express their creativity freely. Our passion for music drives us to curate a collection that reflects the spirit of innovation and authenticity that defines our label.

Los Angeles’ Grave Flowers Bongo Band’s sophomore LP Strength of Spring is an inverted pyramid balanced on the headstock of an acoustic guitar, a rainbow painted in campfire smoke, an endless staircase circling into the clouds. That acoustic guitar, perfectly captured here by Ty Segall’s excellently sere and close mic’d production, plays skeleton to these conjurors woolly grooves, and singer Gabe Flores’ thousand-yard moan keeps us guessing as to exactly where this wildebeest is headed. He pinions these far out tunes, which burst generously with shit-hot guitar leads, Stoogeseque sax squalls, and a gaggle of great eight-armed drum fills, with a flinty wrist-flicking heartbeat as the band turns from whimsy to nimble riffery on a dime, following that pied-piper six string jangling down many lovely rabbit-holes of melody and exploration. It’s obvious these guys play together a lot (the lineup shares two members with acclaimed space rockers Hoover III to boot) and the telepathy on display here is synapse-snappy. Coursing throughout is that note-pad filling, lighter raising, undefinable black magic that feels so rare these days….we dig it mightily and we think you will too, it’s out on Castle Face Records.

Strength of Spring

Music GB