‘I’d Kill for Her’: New music and video from The Black Angels — dangerousminds.net

Austin, TX’s Black Angels have risen to join psychedelia’s premier standard bearers in the decade or so since they found their way onto the world’s radar after the release of their first LP Passover. On that debut, they emerged damn near fully-formed, proffering a pastiche of riveting Spacemen 3 drones, stoneriffic Sabbathy heaviness, and an entrancing darkness worthy of the Velvet Underground song from which they purloined their name. But though they’ve released four albums (with #5 on the way), their reputation was built as a live act, thanks to utterly immersive performances of practically cinematic hugeness. This made them naturals to serve as backup musicians for their fellow Austinite Roky Erickson when he returned to the stage in 2008 to perform 13th Floor Elevators songs for the first time in decades, a meeting of the minds documented on the DVD Night of the Vampire. They’ve taken on a curatorial bent, as well—band members Christian Bland and Alex Maas are principals in Austin’s annual Levitation Festival (previously known as Austin Psych Fest), which has been a destination for fans of stoner, psych, shoegaze, and related musics since 2008.

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