Lorelle Meets The Obsolete new album, ‘Chambers’

Photo by Nicole Klinckwort

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete will release a new album, ‘Chambers’ on March 3rd. Limited editions of White or Red Wax available now.

ORDER THE NEW LORELLE MEETS THE OBSOLETE - CHAMBERS - HERE!!!
All orders will be shipped by 2/24/13.

Released via Captcha Records (which has worked with Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees and more) and Sonic Cathedral UK, it will be available on limited-edition pressings of red, green and white vinyl, as well as on CD and digital download.
Although this is the band’s third long-player, it is the first to be made widely available in the UK and Europe, and follows their rapturously received tour in September 2013, during which they were one of the highlights at the Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia and sold out shows as word of mouth grew and radio and press picked up on them after hearing ‘Medicine To Cure Medicine Sickness’, their memorable contribution to the long since sold- out ‘Psych For Sore Eyes’ EP in February 2013.
The first single from ‘Chambers’, ‘What’s Holding You?’, followed in September with everyone from Steve Lamacq to Frank Skinner spinning it on the radio, and NME getting a bit over-excited and describing it as sounding “like Stereolab getting wasted on Walter White’s finest blue crystal and pretending to be Queens Of The Stone Age”.
The duo (who play live as a four-piece using guest musicians) say they “had a blast” touring Europe – after trekking around North America and supporting The Cure at a huge Mexico City stadium show earlier in the year – and are already planning their return in March and April 2014. One of the highlights was finally meeting their hero Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, who gave them some sage advice on – of all things – how to change a tour van tyre after they had a blowout en route to Liverpool.
Sonic Boom had already helped them in another way – by mastering ‘Chambers’ and making lots of the little details that had been buried in the mix come alive. After laying down basic tracks with Mikale de Graff and Alex Narinskiy, they recorded the album
in Chicago with Cooper Crain of legendary psych/ kraut/drone rockers Cave – the first time they had recorded anywhere other than at home in Mexico.

Tracklist:
1. What’s Holding You?
2. The Myth Of The Wise
3. Dead Leaves
4. I Can’t Feel The Outside
5. Music For Dozens
6. Grieving
7. Sealed Scene
8. Third Wave
9. 13 Flowers
10. Thoughts About Night Noon

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete are:
Lorelle: vocals, guitar, bass
The Obsolete: drums, percussion, bass, vocals, Casiotone, guitars

Lorelle meets The Obsolete - NEW LP 'Chambers'

Photo by Nicole Klinckwort

Lorelle: vocals, guitar, bass 

The Obsolete: drums, percussion, bass, vocals, Casiotone, guitars

Long a favorite of mine these prolific purveyors of psych, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete are psychedelia per-sonic-fied.

Although ‘Chambers’ is Lorelle meets The Obsolete’s third long-player, it is the first to be made widely available in the UK and Europe in February 2014 via Captcha Records, and follows their rapturously received tour in September 2013, during which they were one of the highlights at the Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia and sold out shows as word of mouth grew and radio and press picked up on them after hearing ‘Medicine To Cure Medicine Sickness’, their memorable contribution to the long since sold- out ‘Psych For Sore Eyes’ EP in February 2013.

The first single from ‘Chambers’, ‘What’s Holding You?’, followed in September with everyone from Steve Lamacq to Frank Skinner spinning it on the radio, and NME getting a bit over-excited and describing it as sounding “like Stereolab getting wasted on Walter White’s finest blue crystal and pretending to be Queens Of The Stone Age”.
The duo (who play live as a four-piece using guest musicians) say they “had a blast” touring Europe – after trekking around North America and supporting The Cure at a huge Mexico City stadium show earlier in the year – and are already planning their return in March and April 2014. One of the highlights was finally meeting their hero Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3, who gave them some sage advice on – of all things – how to change a tour van tyre after they had a blowout en route to Liverpool.
Sonic Boom had already helped them in another way – by mastering ‘Chambers’ and making lots of the little details that had been buried in the mix come alive. After laying down basic tracks with Mikale de Graff and Alex Narinskiy, they recorded the album in Chicago with Cooper Crain of legendary psych/ kraut/drone rockers Cave – the first time they had recorded anywhere other than at home in Mexico.
The album is called ‘Chambers’ because, while they recorded it, they felt like they were in various enclosed places far from home and everything else.

“Most of the songs came out of jams, while the tunes on the first two albums were structured either by Lorena or me,” explains The Obsolete, aka Alberto González. “It’s a really straightforward record. To me it doesn’t sound as hazy as the first two and, as it’s the first time we worked with someone else behind the board, it’s Cooper’s interpretation of Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. Then Sonic Boom cranked the volume up!”

Tracklist: 
1. What’s Holding You?
2. The Myth Of The Wise
3. Dead Leaves
4. I Can’t Feel The Outside
5. Music For Dozens
6. Grieving
7. Sealed Scene
8. Third Wave
9. 13 Flowers
10. Thoughts About Night Noon

Release date 17 February 2014
Lorelle: vocals, guitar, bass
The Obsolete: drums, percussion, bass, vocals, Casiotone, guitars
Recorded by: Cooper Crain, Mikale de Graff, Alex Narinskiy
Mastered by: Sonic Boom

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Corruptible Faces

Photo by Isaac Uribe

Members:

Lorelle: vocals, electric guitar & electric bass.

The Obsolete: drums & percussion, electric bass, vocals, casiotone, electric & acoustic guitars, drone, and knob tweaking

The Guadalajara psych duo just released a new single, ‘What’s Holding You?'
Listen to ‘What’s Holding You?' and 'Medicine To Cure Medicine Sickness' (from their upcoming third album 'Chambers') dropping on September 23.
'Medicine To Cure Medicine Sickness' was also featured on Sonic Cathedral's Psych For Sore Eyes complilation.

I just got my Lorelle Meets The Obsolete latest album 'Corruptible Faces'  Limited Edition White vinyl LP via Captcha Records in the mail. Be jealous they're sold out.
A cosmic flight of fancy, like Icarus it soars to atmospheric heights and melts your face with Lorelle’s captivating vocals, the duo’s saturating spacey guitars and dense volumes of beautiful psychedelic noise.




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Lorelle Meets The Obsolete started last year (around March of 2010) in Guadalajara, Mexico when Lorena Quintanilla (Lorelle: vocals, guitar and bass guitar) had a batch of songs that did not fit much into her former band Soho Riots.

She wanted to record them so she invited her Soho Riots bandmate and boyfriend Alberto González (The Obsolete: vocals, guitar, bass guitar, drums, percussion and electric organ) to do so. And that was pretty much it. It all started as a recording project not as a band.

According to Lorena, those songs did not fit with the Soho Riots because they all came up as a unity. She could not separate them from each other. It was almost as if each song was part of a story. Above all, they were extremely personal since they were a depiction of Lorena's hard life at the time.

It also was the best opportunity to start something they were meaning a long time to do: a duo between Alberto and Lorena. When Lorelle Meets The Obsolete.

After several months those songs were finished and they realized they had a complete album so they decided to share it with several record labels they admired. They titled the album On Welfare and Captcha Records, a small Chicago imprint, released it in May of 2011, achieving positive reviews from all sorts of media (Altered Zones, Raven Sings The Blues, Get Bent, Los Grillos among others) and good radio airplay (WFMU, KDVS and BBC Radio 6).

On Welfare is a dense atmosphere with layered guitar textures, psychedelic drones and garage. Its sound is fond of bands like The Velvet Underground, The 13th Floor Elevators, My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3.

Lorena and Alberto have also assembled a band in order to move their music into a live scenario. Their live shows are well known for being loud, hazy and physical. Lorena and Alberto see the live experience as a way of projecting themselves as real as possible without obstacles. Their live act is purely emotional and they have taken it across several mexican cities such as Monterrey, Guadalajara, Morelia, Cholula and Mexico City.

Captcha Records has been a home for LMTO's sounds and in January of 2012 they will release the Ghost Archives EP (a 7" that will mark the transition between the band's two LP's) and their sophomore effort (scheduled to be released in March of 2012).