Primordial review on Aural Innovation

T.H.U.M.B. – “Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots”

(Go Down Records 2012, CD)

October 15, 2012 Aural Innovations

T.H.U.M.B. are an Italian Stoner-Psych trio who incorporate lots of spaced out effects into their songs. Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots is the band’s first new release since 2004′s Lunar Flight EP.
Compositionally, the 12 songs on the album are pretty basic, but what gives T.H.U.M.B. their character is their raw, dirty sound, punky vocal style, and their use of effects. Songs like Monstergods and Superlover feature down ‘n dirty spaced out Stoner Rock, with the latter song have especially cool tripped out guitar effects. Wear It Out is similar but with a far more valium-like sludgy quality. Inconsistence starts off as a more straightforward rocker, though still packs a stoned punch and has some killer psyched out guitar. Either someone else is singing or the vocalist just changed his style for this song, which is more “normal” singing and lacks the raw, punky edge of the other tracks. Road Song and Stonebridge Deluxe feature hip shakin’ stoner rock ‘n roll. Lived Namow goes in a completely different direction, being a 2 minute acoustic guitar and harmonica Blues tune. But as examples of deep space Stoner Rock my favorites of the set are Into The Deepest Green and Reaching The Afterglow. Both have great guitar effects, and Reaching The Afterglow goes totally Stoner Space Rock. It rocks hard, has a good groove, brain candy psych guitar, and has the freakiest spaced out effects on the album. Lots of variety on this one. Overall a pretty good set. A few songs tended to meander too much, but when T.H.U.M.B. find the right combination of groove and effects, they’re a hell of a lot more interesting than many of the contemporary stoner bands.

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T.H.U.M.B. on Aural Innovation Show # 291

A Space rock number from our Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots 
titled Reaching The Afterglow frohas been choosen
to appear on the show # 291 on Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio.

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Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio (show #291)

T.H.U.M.B. on Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio (show #290)

Into The Deepest Green fron our latest album has been choosen
to appear on the show # 290 on Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio.

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in both streaming and download editions.
You can go directly to the Radio shows page at:

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This is the playlist:

Aural Innovations Space Rock Radio (show #290)

Vespero - "ALARM… The Art Of Positive Thinking" 
(from Subkraut: U-Boats Willkommen Hier)

Human Factor – “Objects” 
(from 4.Hm.F)

Sound Of Ground – “Share” 
(from Sky Colored Green)

Farflung – “Tubalcain” 
(from Farflung/Black Land split LP)

Aural Innovations ID 
(by Gayle Ellett of Djam Karet)

Litmus – “Satellites”
(from Slaughterbahn)

T.H.U.M.B. – “Into The Deepest Green” 
(from Primordial Echoes For Modern Bigfoots)

Beyond-O-Matic - "Wish" 
(from forthcoming Relations At The Borders Between)

Aural Innovations ID
(by Stone Premonitions)

Beyond-O-Matic – “Trying To Find You”
(from Time To Get Up)

Ax Genrich – “Death Is For Dying”
(from Fretboard Jungle)

Ax Genrich – “Zaragoza” 
(from A Trip To Paradise)

Chickencage Experience – “The Eternal End”
(from An Eggspoiltation Movie)

Cosmic Vibrations – “Aurora”
(from Psychedelic World Music compilation)

Aural Innovations ID
(by Stone Premonitions)

Thunderbolt Pagoda – “The Reclamation”
(from For Lee Jackson in Space compilation)

Ade Shaw & Rustic Rod Goodway – “Chakra Blue”
(from For Lee Jackson in Space compilation)

Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra – “Rocket Number Nine Take Off For The Planet Venus”
(from Interstellar Low Ways)