Galactapus “The Lustful Arts”

Abrupt, evocative, euphorically psychedelic and aggressively unforgettable. “The Lustful Arts” is weird and playful with notoriously distorted guitar coiled in atonality, growling vocals that spread out in your mind like waves of infection. Committed in the wrong but serious way, Galactapus brings a highly addictive, unorthodox first single off of their upcoming album The Rainbows of Wrong.

Rhythmically, “The Lustful Arts” has a very interesting trip and fall with 7/8 resolving into 8/8 while sparking a temporary sense of tonality right before stumbling back into its odd-metered atonality. Disturbance? More like a great mystery and a playful exploration of your comfort level, which usually results in an illusive euphoria. “The Lustful Arts” has an otherworldly charm and palpable mystique that is somehow very understandable. It connects to your inner weirdness and your raw and twisted desires. Be something that no one dares to be, and do something, daringly while fearfully.

Galactapus is known for their adventurous love for the avant garde, the use of unlikely instruments, genre-bending rock sounds and hippie aesthetic. They create soundscapes and experiences that are authentic and primal, as if documenting a carnival in pre-historic time. “The Lustful Arts” covers many grounds like garage, progressive rock, psychedelic and folk, but it seems to take its primary residency in death metal, where a smashing extreme of atonality, raw distortion and abrupt change in pace and rhythms are rubbed together.

There isn’t going to another band like Galactapus. They are golden. And frankly, it’s really easy to imagine them having a cult following. Sometimes, while listening to their music, you can’t help but feeling they deserve to have a genre designated to them.