The Heavenly Bodes Head To The “Green Hills” On Debut Album

Cornish four-piece The Heavenly Bodes have today released their debut album, Green Hills, via Fuzz Club Records. The album was recorded on reel-to-reel in a friend’s living room between trips to the beach, it features a collection of lo-fi numbers that vary in feel, sometimes twisting and erratic, sometimes sedated and meandering, but all drenched in tape hiss and left out on the pebbles to dry. These are salad-days dreams of escapism melting under the summer sun, evoking the clammy rooms from which they came.

The Heavenly Bodes channel a shared love of classic 60s acid-garage into something immediate and intimate, and specifically rooted in the here and now of the West Coast cornucopia they call home. The self-produced album captures the band’s loose, unpolished spirit, landing somewhere between scrappy garage-rock abandon and woozy Velvets cool. It’s the sound of jangly surf riffs, hard-hitting bass grooves and hazy organ dissolving into the salty sea air.