San Ul Lim - Laying Silks and Satins on my Heart Vol. 2

a band that I’ve actually been hyped about since middle school (ha it’s time I gave away my age I suppose)

san ul lim are three Korean brothers who claim that they have never really gotten acquainted with garage rock and psychedelic sounds, their first sold five hundred thousand copies in the first week that it was released

the brothers picked up their instruments in college, the eldest playing guitar meanwhile fronting the band, the second eldest the bass guitar and the youngest playing the drums.

they were born out of a rich family in Seoul and it was because of this that they were able to acquire the necessary instruments for the music they made.

the band’s name literally translates to (that, oh the mountain echo(es)  was made by kim chang wan -

this album (their second album) was instrumental on defining their signature sound. 

the sounds are of a trio with catchy but good psychedelic songs full of spacey, more experimental passages and transitions 

ranging from folky moody bits to garage numbers fuzzy guitars and swirling organ and tasty phasers 

the band is always melodic and these songs will get stuck in your head!

White Heaven - Out

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The roots of Japanese neo-psych legends White Heaven date back to 1980. Originally called by the band Living End, the group was formed through a series of jam sessions helmed by singer/guitarist You Ishihara, its sprawling, ever-revolving lineup of musicians eventually crystallizing in 1984 around You, guitarist Tetsuya Sakamoto, bassist Takayuki Nakagoshi, and drummer Ken Ishihara. After a handful of gigs, Living End added guitarist Ken Matsutani, and in late 1985 the quintet adopted the name White Heaven. Matsutani exited in mid-1986 to form his own outfit, Marble Sheep & the Rundown Sun's Children, and after adding ex-ONNA guitarist Michio Kurihara, the group issued Electric Cool Acid, a self-released cassette documenting a live appearance in Tokyo. A series of lineup changes plagued White Heaven over the next few years, and when in the spring of 1991 the band finally issued its first official LP, the P.S.F. label release Out.

Recorded at Studio J

Out being the bands only officilal LP remains to be a limited  piece of recent japanese rock history with only 500 copies ever made