The Warlocks return with their 14th studio album The Manic Excessive Sounds Of, released on August 1st via Cleopatra Records along with their scintillating new video “We Are All Lost.” 

Frontman Bobby Hecksher says, ”Musically this song is inspired by some of my favorite 90s bands: The Feelies, The Vaselines, Television Personalities and 2000s Ezra Furman.I wanted to capture its East Coast urgency. Quick solos, semi lo fi acoustics and lyrically driven. 

“The song is about relationships and making them work in our chaotic times. Our souls get hardened with age and this just amplifies everything. It’s not about me or my relationships, but collectively what I see all around me. Loved ones, friends, acquaintances going through the shit.”

Veteran purveyors of a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground, the LA band unleash their manic excessive sounds on what might be their wildest, weirdest offering yet!

A journey into the ether and outer limits, The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks was written, says Hecksher, in a single day, hence its title.  

A gear shifting, mind melting, twist and turn bending of genre and expectations, it is the sound of The Warlocks  exploring our paranoid times through huge rock chords and choruses, delicious distortion through a modern psychedelia lens. The opener ‘Its A Fucked-Up World’ says it all!

But, Hecksher continues, “This album is a positive one, and it totally rocks in the best way, too. It’s about cherishing the things that matter – the ones around you, the people you love and dealing with those relationships that are oh so frail. Hopefully this album gives one inspiration, ammunition and hope to navigate the insane backdrop of our modern times.”

The Warlocks are certainly well placed to make such a promise.  Having grown up in the swamps of Tampa Bay, FL, Bobby moved to L.A. at age 16. There he swiftly found kindred spirits, jamming with Beck on his Stereopathetic Soulmanure album and moonlighting in The Brian Jonestown Massacre. 

The Warlocks’s debut album Rise & Fall, on the legendary​Bomp label in 2000, set out their template, but it was the band’s signing to a worldwide deal with Mute and the release of Phoenix (2003) that truly kicked everything into gear.  

Subsequent albums (including 2005’s Surgery, 2007’s Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, 2009’s The Mirror Explodes, and 2020’s The Chain) raised the temperature even higher, while​relentless international touring and the sheer power of The Warlocks’ gigantic live sound has built a worldwide cult following for the band that has only grown and intensified. 

But The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks takes everything to an entirely new level. Backed by J.C. Rees (guitar), Earl V. Miller (guitar), Marlena Schwenck (bass), Oscar Ruvalcaba (drums), Rob Campanella (Organ) and Elina Yakubova (tambourine & percussion), Hecksher throws everything bar the kitchen sink into the seething sonic cauldron, emerging with what has to be one of the psych-freak albums of the era.

In other words, he’s completely off his rocker on this one. His mind has melted and his psyche, like Elvis, has left the building. But only in the best possible way. You have been warned.

• CD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=the+warlocks+manic+excessive
• DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/ykzj8yj

Track listing

1. It’s A Fucked-Up World
2. You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart
3. We Are All Lost
4. A Duel Between You And I
5. Stars On Sunset
6. The Dotted Line
7. Don’t Blame It On The Band
8. Don’t Blame It On The Jam

The Warlocks return with their 14th studio album The Manic Excessive Sounds Of, released on August 1 on Cleopatra Records. Today they share new single and video “You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart.”. 

“Sometimes one has to wonder if marriage can really work in these modern times,” says frontman Bobby Hecksher, as he discusses new single “You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart.” 

“Everything is 24-7 stress, work, band, friends/text/social media, toss a baby in there and things can get fried pretty fast. This song is about exactly that. Everything melting and on display and all you’re trying to do is pick up the pieces and make everything work. My favorite line is “A normal circumstance for me well, what do we do again? To make us feel blue again, to make us fall in love again.”

SINGLE: https://orcd.co/thewarlocks_youcantloseabrokenheart

Veteran purveyors of a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground, the LA band THE WARLOCKS unleash their manic excessive sounds on what might be their wildest, weirdest offering yet!

A journey into the ether and outer limits, The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks was written, says Hecksher, in a single day, hence its title.  

A gear shifting, mind melting, twist and turn bending of genre and expectations, it is the sound of The Warlocks  exploring our paranoid times through huge rock chords and choruses, delicious distortion through a modern psychedelia lens. The opener ‘Its A Fucked-Up World’ says it all, while the band’s forthcoming single ‘You Can’t Loose A Broken Heart’ offers everyone a sneak peek into the mayhem that’s to come.

But, Hecksher continues, “This album is a positive one, and it totally rocks in the best way, too. It’s about cherishing the things that matter – the ones around you, the people you love and dealing with those relationships that are oh so frail. Hopefully this album gives one inspiration, ammunition and hope to navigate the insane backdrop of our modern times.”

The Warlocks are certainly well placed to deliver such a creed.  Having grown up in the swamps of Tampa Bay, FL, Bobby moved to L.A. at age 16. There he swiftly found kindred spirits, jamming with Beck on his Stereopathetic Soulmanure album and moonlighting in The Brian Jonestown Massacre. 

The Warlocks’s debut album Rise & Fall, on the legendary​ Bomp label in 2000, set out their template, but it was the band’s signing to a worldwide deal with Mute and the release of Phoenix (2003) that truly kicked everything into gear.  

Subsequent albums (including 2005’s Surgery, 2007’s Heavy Deavy Skull Lover, 2009’s The Mirror Explodes, and 2020’s The Chain) raised the temperature even higher, while​relentless international touring and the sheer power of The Warlocks’ gigantic live sound has built a worldwide cult following for the band that has only grown and intensified. 

But The Manic Excessive Sounds Of The Warlocks takes everything to an entirely new level. Backed by J.C. Rees (guitar), Earl V. Miller (guitar), Marlena Schwenck (bass), Oscar Ruvalcaba (drums), Rob Campanella (Organ) and Elina Yakubova (tambourine & percussion), Hecksher throws everything bar the kitchen sink into the seething sonic cauldron, emerging with what has to be one of the psych-freak albums of the era.

In other words, he’s completely off his rocker on this one. His mind has melted and his psyche, like Elvis, has left the building. But only in the best possible way. You have been warned.

• CD/VINYL: https://cleorecs.com/search?q=the+warlocks+manic+excessive
• DIGITAL: https://orcd.co/ykzj8yj

Track listing

1. It’s A Fucked-Up World
2. You Can’t Lose A Broken Heart
3. We Are All Lost
4. A Duel Between You And I
5. Stars On Sunset
6. The Dotted Line
7. Don’t Blame It On The Band
8. Don’t Blame It On The Jam

Following on the heels of their most intensely personal and powerful album to date, Los Angeles psych-rock masters THE WARLOCKS are heading overseas to perform a series of shows throughout the UK, France, Italy and other European countries. Formed in 1999, The Warlocks produce a relentless, hypnotic wall of sound that suggests a collision between classic psychedelia, Krautrock and The Velvet Underground. The band’s newest album, In Between Sad, was written in the wake of frontman Bobby Hecksher’s loss of his brother to cancer and is a deeply moving, immensely heavy album that is arguably Hecksher’s most intimate of his 25+ year career.

The band will be performing songs from that album as well as songs from their incredible catalog of studio releases. See below for the complete list of dates and get your tickets before they sell out! Visit https://www.thewarlocks.com/ for more info.

Oct 18 DE NUREMBERG – Zbau @z.bau
Oct 19 NL HEERLEN – Nieuwe Nor @nieuwenor
Oct 20 NL UTRECHT – Tivoli Vredenburg @tivolivredenburg
Oct 21 UK LONDON – Signature Brew @signaturebrewbh
Oct 22 UK NOTTINGHAM – The Chameleon @the_chameleon_arts_cafe
Oct 23 UK GLASGO – Broadcast @broadcastglasgow
Oct 24 UK BIRKENHEAD – Future Yard @future_yard
Oct 25 UK SOUTHAMPTON – Papillon @papillonsouthampton
Oct 26 NL ZWOLLE – Hedon @hedonzwolle
Oct 28 NL Goes – tBeest @podiumtbeest
Oct 29 FR PARIS – La Maroquinerie @lamaroquinerie
Oct 31 ES MADRID – Würlitzer Ballroom @wurlitzerballroom
Nov 1 ES BARCELONA – Sala Upload @upload_barcelona
Nov 2 FR St JEAN DE VIDAS – Secret Place @secretplacetaf
Nov 3 FR COGNAC – Les Abbatoirs @LesAbbatoirs
Nov 4 FR BREST – La Caréne @lacarene.brest
Nov 5 FR TOURS – Le Bateau Ivre @le_b_ateau_ivre
Nov 8 FR MARSEILLE – Le Molotov @lemolotovmarseille
Nov 9 CH BASEL – Atlantis @atlantis_basel
Nov 11 DE BERLIN – Synästhesie Festival @synaesthesiefestival
Nov 13 CZ PRAGUE – Cafe V Lese @cafevlese
Nov 14 SK BRATISLAVA – Pink Whale @pink_whale_cultc
Nov 15 AT VIENNA – Arena @arenawien
Nov 16 IT RAVENNA – Bronson @Bronson
Nov 17 IT MILANO – Psychodelice @psychodelice.mi @arci_bellezza
Nov 18 IT VERONA – Colorificio Kroen @colorificio_kroen

And be sure to grab a copy of the new album available now on CD, digital, and vinyl!

• Order the CD/Vinyl: https://cleorecs.com/store/?s=the+warlocks+in+between+sad&post_type=product
• Digital: https://orcd.co/thewarlocks_inbetweensad

TRACK LIST:

1. Broken Bridges
2. The Last Road
3. I Think I’m Done With You
4. I’m Never Gonna Be The One You Love
5. Ambien Hotline
6. Treasure The Time
7. Toxic Years
8. Downing In The Darkness