Mojo’s Pick of the Week – The Singularity by Wo Fat

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Wo Fat The Singularity CoverI’ll be honest, I’m a little late to the Wo Fat party, but what a great place to start. The venerable Texas stoner rock band have an album of the year contender with their seventh full length studio album, The Singularity, out now on Ripple Music. The 70s funky and prog rock influences on this album are apparently a bit of a departure from previous heavy blues rock, but they feel right at home. Swirly, trippy, fuzzy space rock that just grooves. 

Standout tracks: Orphans of the Singe, Overworlder, The Singularity

Find Wo Fat on the web:

https://wofat.net
https://www.instagram.com/wofatriffage
https://twitter.com/HouseOfWoFat

 

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Mojo’s Pick of the Week – Polar Fleet by Operator Generator

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Operator Generator Polar Fleet CoverChances are you haven’t heard of Operator Generator. I hadn’t either until it was recommended in passing recently by a trusted Twitter source, and it’s not available on streaming outside of YouTube. And now that I’ve heard it I need to tell everyone about this lost classic.

Operator Generator was a San Jose Stoner rock band that only had one album, released on San Francisco’s legendary Man’s Ruin Records in 2001.

Containing the 3 songs of Operator Generator’s original self-titled EP, Polar Fleet is an 8 song tour de force that honestly hangs with the best of Kyuss, Sasquatch, and the like. This is not debut album stuff, this is established band at their pinnacle stuff. It’s a shame there’s not more where that came from, but that’s how the cannabis cookie crumbles sometimes.

Here it is in its entirety, Polar Fleet by Operator Generator. Enjoy!

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Mojo’s Pick of the Week – Beyond the Dead Woods by Kyng

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Just when I thought I’d never hear from LA’s criminally overlooked melodic metal trio Kyng again, a 10 song acoustic album flew in under the radar mid-2021. Beyond the Dead Woods includes acoustic versions of songs from 2016’s Breathe in the Water and 2011’s Trampled Sun, plus brilliant covers of David Bowie’s Starman and Metallica’s Escape. The title track is the only new original song.

The story behind this album as told on the band’s Bandcamp page is that the album was recorded in a lull in a tour in a studio in Mexico on borrowed gear, and put aside for years. By the time the tapes were resurrected, the band found the vocal tracks had been lost and needed to be rerecorded, which they did in live ‘one shot’ fashion. You would never know this album was not recorded all at once, the production is so sparkling and seamless.

I can only hope this marks a path forward for Kyng, rumored to have struggled with member and label issues in recent years. I’ve found them to be one of the most talented and underrated underground heavy bands of the last decade.

Find Kyng on the web

https://kynglives.bandcamp.com
https://twitter.com/kyngband
https://www.instagram.com/kyngband
https://www.facebook.com/Kyngband/

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