"On the eve of its North American tour with Mastodon and Dinosaur Jr, and hot on the heels of latest EP Hope Porn, Brooklyn band Netherlands presents its brand new full-length album: Black Gaia. Mastodon handpicked Netherlands to join them on the upcoming September tour and it is a perfect match. Netherlands' style, honed to excellence in the years since its beginnings in 2010, is a wild-eyed, metallic version of rock. Black Gaia finds the band at the pinnacle of its very own mountain – a place of lurching grooves, psychedelic lava-spewing, and sugary hooks that infect the ears. Rabid-ape drums, plate-shifting synthbass, kaleidoscopic guitar, and Ellis' transcendent vocals (a range from gentle falsetto to soaring howl) converge in a singular psych-prog-sludge-pop sound sharing DNA with The Beach Boys, Earth Wind and Fire, Van Halen, Dio, The Melvins, The Boredoms, Torche, and Mutoid Man."
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