Earth Ball - Outside Over There (2025) [Hi-Res]

Heavyweight psychedelic improvisers, EarthBall, are back with their third and most monstrous record to date.

Born from the haunted basements of Nanaimo, Canada, the quintet thrives on spontaneity, shaping improvisation into jagged hallucinations and ecstatic eruptions. Recorded live-off-the-floor in 2024 in Jeremy, Izzy, and Kellen’s basement, and mixed by drummer John Brennan, ‘Outside Over There’ is an album that feels both summoned and inevitable. Each track lands with uncanny purpose, as if uncovered rather than written.

The opener, 100%, features a cameo from comedian and English icon Stewart Lee, who lent his blessing for the band to use a fragment of his stand-up. The album was mastered by John Dieterich (Deerhoof), with liner text contributed by longtime comrade John Olson (Wolf Eyes).

Olson describes the album in his unmistakable style: “This eight-track odyssey unfolds like a dreamscape, where whispered incantations brush against the shadowy fringes of the cosmos, and wild, Cézanne-inspired rock anthems erupt like geysers of color in the midst of a western warm and wet rain storm… culminating in the sprawling eleven minute masterpiece, ‘And The Music Shall Untune The Sky,’ aptly dubbed the Earth Crusher. A creation so utterly deconstructed and intertwined with the pulse of nature itself that if AI was called upon to conceive ‘Outside Over There’ anew, it would just spit back, “F.U. in Tree Font”. An enchanting invitation for even the flat-earthers to join the circle, if only just a little.”

Tracklist:
1-1 Earth Ball - 100% [1:17]
1-2 Earth Ball - Helsinki [4:33]
1-3 Earth Ball - Outside Over There [7:38]
1-4 Earth Ball - Seeing Doors Unlock [2:54]
1-5 Earth Ball - Hellfire Relations [5:12]
1-6 Earth Ball - Where I Come From [6:27]
1-7 Earth Ball - Behind the Mall [2:40]
1-8 Earth Ball - And Music Shall Untune the Sky [11:43]