FIG LEAF are influenced by bands such as KING CRIMSON, GENESIS, ELP, as well as bands like ZAPPA, SANTANA, HENDRIX, The STONES, The WHO, YES, MEGADETH and Peter HAMMILL. This might be due to the slightly aged equipment they like to play: Rhodes electric piano, Leslie 760, Mesa Boogie, Gibson and Stratocaster. The sounds of the band is compared by many to the sound of the '70s. That will be an awesome day.* Genre: 70's Hard/Progressive Rock/Metal One day we will be professional, and then everyone will be like ‘You suck, you were better when you sucked’. If you already know every scale and every timing you’ve got nowhere to go. I want to keep learning as we go on and progress. So what, professional is safe and boring. I mean, we recorded in a shitty basement on thirty-year-old gear while we were all fucked up. The band aren’t afraid to face accusations of sounding amateurish: “I guess I’d have to agree with them. Then we’d score more babes, it would be like heaven. And we’d get paid, and that mean more drugs and studio time. I would love all the little drones in the world buying jeans while listening to Psychedelic Horseshit. Yeah, but would Psychedelic Horseshit do a Levi’s ad? “For sure, I’m really into using the media in weird subversive ways. That song is about all of us as far as I’m concerned, we’ve all got a little new wave hippie in us and it’s sad but its also kinda the times and its where we go onward from” Thematically the song feels poised and aimed: “Lots of people think I was being really specific and they wanna know who it’s about, like I’d actually written the song about someone. It’s over in a couple of minutes, Matt’s vocal snarls over cheap Casio beats and that gnarly, scrappy and multi textured distortion so beloved of the band. Recent single New Age Hippies does feel kind of concise. They’re really into all that DIY stuff, we lean more towards My Bloody Valentine and hip-hop. They write really concise pop songs, we write really messy drug songs. Yet despite a close respect the two bands (both signed to Siltbreeze) have for each other, Matt is keen to illuminate the difference: “It takes a seasoned pair of ears to get past the distortions I know, but once you do it’s easy to see that TNV and Horseshit are galaxies apart musically. Like fellow blues extremists Times New Viking, Psychedelic Horseshit are being labeled as something called Shitgaze. We should’ve gotten some jackass like Phil Collins to mix it, then people would really love us.” I guess it doesn’t show, it’s like way unlistenable you know. We recorded the whole thing in like four to five days over the course of four months and then spent like forever mixing the thing. “We got real high and sometimes drunk and a little bit of acid for perspective. Singer/guitarist Matt Whitehurst is telling me about how the early Fall/Dinosaur Jnr meets swamp racket of the Columbus, Ohio band’s debut album Magic Flowers Droned came to be. To which my friend Sara replied ‘Yeah, like Psychedelic Horseshit.' The rest is history.” “I was like ‘I’m gonna start a band of non-musicians, I’m talking 15 people, and we’re just gonna get up there and jam’.
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