Whiskerman's heavy blues rock psychedelic possession of "Belly Of The Beast"

AP Track Review

Oakland based Whiskerman is not content for you to just feel their music, no, they want you to drink the kool aid, to be possessed by the spectacle of art, to create a grand illusion to make you swoon. Front man provocateur Graham Patzner with his possessed smile and leer is poised somewhere between a holy roller preacher, a mad medicine show salesman and a Berlin cabaret leader. What he is selling is a heavy mix of blues rock psychedelia wrung out into a grunge 70's tinged garden rock in a big art rock / glam rock way. Whiskerman has been playing or maybe the better word would be metamorphosing for seven years. A look at some of their earlier work felt a lot more mellow and folk-ish, the exact rhymes or reasons that they have shifted towards a heavier, maybe more rock possessed sound is unknown to me but they do say that the devil is in the details. Check out the grand, trippy, dirty guitar spewed feral rocker Belly Of The Beast. 

Whiskerman are working on their fourth studio album called "Kingdom Illusion".

- Robb Donker Curtius







THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Whiskerman is a rock-and-roll overture to the great unraveling. Over the last 7 years the Oakland band has developed an underground reputation for tackling the sublime with their ambitious songwriting, thunderous stage show, and acute lyricism. They have since emerged as an engine of the Bay Area’s revitalized psychedelic and festival scenes. Frontman Graham Patzner, who will crow like a medicine show preacher and then coo you into the arms of his lovesick eternity, might be a spitfire protege of the underworld himself, though, through and through he will remind you that there is no rapture without artistry. On the surface this is splendid rock-and-roll, rooted in the classic, psych and glam rock tradition, but the pageantry and chaos of Whiskerman’s performances will leave you describing an experience more than a sound. 

Whiskerman is preparing to release their fourth studio album, Kingdom Illusion—a rock and roll vision quest that ushers the band’s elegiac psychedelia toward a louder, pushier, more colorful sound.