Spider
Vomit
“Spider Vomit are heavy. Like 70s downers that are now illegal, they take the torque out of everything. Even when they get all Sonic Youth on it, there’s still a fearsome shudder to this Melbourne quintet. ‘Widow’s Walk’ is their debut EP and it’s all kinds of fascinating.” Mess and Noise
“Dermody and Brooks’ tortured screams and gangly presence complement primordial, effects-heavy guitar riffs, a sinister rhythm section and the gloomy blues vibe throughout. (Think Blue Cheer, Earth, and Royal Trux fighting in a burlap sack.)” Inpress
Spider Vomit is a concentration of darkness, deviated themes and sonic enlightenment. Employing dueling male / female vocalists, a psychdedlic primordial guitarist and a blues rhythm section, Spider Vomit sound like a kaleidoscopic cauldron bubbling over with inexplicable sonic phenomena.
This five-trak debut EP, Widows Walk, opens with the riff-heavy dark prog of Tail Points To Hell, rides into the stoner swagger of No Way before hurtling into well-known live favourite Problems, which, soundling like a trail bike through gravel, is arguable guitar riff of the year. Title track Widows Walk takes a more conceptual path through juxtapositions of the eerie and eliptical. The EP concludes with the monsoonal blues-driven epic, Evil Bloody Long Haired Woman.
Having formed less than a year ago, Spider Vomit have taken essential elements of their renowned, captivating live shows and faithfully transported them to record. On Problems, audience participation is replaced with a psychedelic swirl of voices contributed by Romy Hoffman (Macromantics), Alison Woolfe (Partyline / ex-Brat Mobile) and Ellen Carey (Birth Glow) among others.
Spider Vomit songs emanate an energy that is not restricted by format. They are not a verse/chorus band - instead they play a rare breed of song that echoes the highs and lows of experience, horror and beauty at times merging so closely as to be indistinguishable from each other.
“Spider Vomit are heavy. Like 70s downers that are now illegal, they take the torque out of everything. Even when they get all Sonic Youth on it, there’s still a fearsome shudder to this Melbourne quintet. ‘Widow’s Walk’ is their debut EP and it’s all kinds of fascinating.” Mess and Noise
“Dermody and Brooks’ tortured screams and gangly presence complement primordial, effects-heavy guitar riffs, a sinister rhythm section and the gloomy blues vibe throughout. (Think Blue Cheer, Earth, and Royal Trux fighting in a burlap sack.)” Inpress
Spider Vomit is a concentration of darkness, deviated themes and sonic enlightenment. Employing dueling male / female vocalists, a psychdedlic primordial guitarist and a blues rhythm section, Spider Vomit sound like a kaleidoscopic cauldron bubbling over with inexplicable sonic phenomena.
This five-trak debut EP, Widows Walk, opens with the riff-heavy dark prog of Tail Points To Hell, rides into the stoner swagger of No Way before hurtling into well-known live favourite Problems, which, soundling like a trail bike through gravel, is arguable guitar riff of the year. Title track Widows Walk takes a more conceptual path through juxtapositions of the eerie and eliptical. The EP concludes with the monsoonal blues-driven epic, Evil Bloody Long Haired Woman.
Having formed less than a year ago, Spider Vomit have taken essential elements of their renowned, captivating live shows and faithfully transported them to record. On Problems, audience participation is replaced with a psychedelic swirl of voices contributed by Romy Hoffman (Macromantics), Alison Woolfe (Partyline / ex-Brat Mobile) and Ellen Carey (Birth Glow) among others.
Spider Vomit songs emanate an energy that is not restricted by format. They are not a verse/chorus band - instead they play a rare breed of song that echoes the highs and lows of experience, horror and beauty at times merging so closely as to be indistinguishable from each other.