The Glasgow PodcART

The Lava Experiments are no stranger to the Scottish music circuit, having established themselves in 2005 they have gone on to build up their reputation as much as their consummate sound.

Podcart’s first live introduction to this cluster of talent was in 2009 at Glasgow’s V Club. Since then front man Fraser Rowan has remained the nucleus, however, his line-up has changed to create a rapturous membrane around him.

Glasgow Podcart’s Artist Of The Week goes to The Lava Experiments and I will now attempt to tell you exactly why! The Lava Experiments release Blackbody Volume III this week and in my opinion it goes a phenomenal way to showing the potential of this band.

Over the last year I have seen and heard the band grow in sound and that essentially is what Artist Of The Week aims to show and represent. The Lava Experiments create music that sucks you in like a tourbillion. Songs build and before you know it you are within a sonancy that is like putting on the best headphones you can find and the music becoming part of you.

‘Never Been Lost’ is the opening track to Blackbody Volume III and creates visionary psychedelia in places. As the track progresses all its individual eclectic accomplishments add up to create something truly enthralling.

The entire EP moves in a way that like most excellent short collections of music, tells you a story from start to finish. Blackbody Volume III is patterned with ethereal beauty and can lift you to giddy heights when crescendos hit their highest peaks. I just urge you to take the time to listen.

The Lava Experiments are a powerful machine; they have taken a massively significant step forward. They pull sublime sounds from the most core recesses of their imaginations and turn them into transport mechanisms for you and I to experience. I cannot wait to see what is next.

Halina Rifai

For more information on the band and to purchase this EP and other releases please visit: www.thelavaexperiments.co.uk

The EP Launch takes place June 5th at The 13th Note, Glasgow – tickets available: HERE!