Rhododendron On

First Deep Distance release of the year sees the mighty debut full length from Rhododendron.

Last year saw their debut 10” sell out in 48 hours on the label and was -and remains- a favourite and staple of the more kraut themed sets of Andrew Weatherall’s DJ stints. The band also headlined Phonica Records Record Store Day celebrations the year before. So to unleash the full length is timed immaculately and it does not disappoint…

Made on the South Coast entirely from wire, magnetic tape, glass and electricity, Rhododendron make English electronic, psychedelic, industrial motorik music for a cosmic jokers party with Terry Riley, Dieter Moebius and Suicide in the room and all on the wrong drugs.

Assembled by Oliver Cherer (Dollboy, Silver Servants) and Darren Morris (David Holmes, Steve Mason) in St Leonards' North Street Studios 1 and 2 (The Assistant, Wrestler, Dollboy) Rhododendron give you instrumental autobahn anthems (“New Europe“, “Car Crash - Lights Off“), electro-psych wig-out (“Church of T“), paranoid technopunk rant (“Brute Blaster”, featuring Eyes In The Heat's Zizi Kanaan), Silver Apples style disto-disco (“Little Rocks“) and misfit radiophonic nerd-pop (“A Foreign Language“; described recently as being “like Sleaford Mods if they‘d gone to art school“?!)

Turning mindless awkward riffs into mesmerising transcendental trips and genre-hopping work-outs like the updated “Paris Rendezvous” which features Wooden Spoon's Owen Hills on harmonica sounding like Lee Brilleux jamming with Can.

Analogue synthesizers, tape machines, tape echoes, fuzz tone guitars, test oscillators and broken machines from car boot sales.

A great album in a ltd pressing of 300 only