We couldn’t love you all anymore than we already do, but we do! Invaders’ Floating CD is now sold out. The digital version is available from Think Indie, and the album will be available from iTunes and other digital retailers in the coming weeks.

XO,
KBR

Their debut CD “Floating” is available now for $10 direct from us, and we’ll have them at the show.

For now, trackage:
“Charmer”
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“Couldn’t Come”
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Bongiorno!

Invaders’ debut CD “Floating” is now available for digital purchase from Think Indie, an arm of the Coalition of Independent Music Stores. A track from that album, “Couldn’t Come,” is now available for free download!

Invaders perform Friday, Aug. 7, at Glassworks with D. Rider (ex-U.S. Maple), Buffalo Bill and Ben Purdom. Show starts at 8 p.m. $7

Louisville’s Invaders might just be my favorite local act. They certainly could be the second loudest (Lords takes first place for obvious reasons). Invaders triumphantly achieve the coveted position of being difficult to categorize, which should by default pique your interest. Floating, their recently released debut for local label Karate Body, is a treble-heavy, noisy, yet viscerally accessible and pop-oriented body of work.

Invaders certainly take advantage of, in some ways, the resurgence of the no-fi aesthetic a la Psychedelic Horseshit and Times New Viking. However, Invaders rely on extremely tight song structures compared to the loosey goosey dissonance of the aforementioned. Snakey guitar, heavily distorted and subdued vocals, punchy rhythm, and general scratchy psychedelia rule over Floating, and the record is able to weave through oft disparate tempos and moods while remaining consistent and cohesive.

Invaders drift in the drug laments of Spacemen 3 on “Head Full of Rocks” (accompanied by the excellent backing vocals of the Sandpaper Dolls’ Amber Estes) and the noise pop of really early Yo La Tengo on “The Flu.” “Charmer” amalgamates a garage punk ethos with a decidedly shoegazey flavor. “Centipede” is pure stoner rock – Hawkwind, Dead Meadow, etc. And the title track sounds exactly like it should – ride heavy percussion, 4AD evocative dreamy textures, and a vaguely romantic swagger juxtaposed against late ’60s acid melodies. Light a doob and get lifted.

Invaders evidently love all the same music I love. Hence, I love Floating.

The new band led by Joe Meredith, formerly of the Beatles-esque Merediths, is surprising not just because of Meredith’s more poppy pedigree, but also because there are few bands left making sounds like this. The Invaders live near rock music but probably won’t be understood by the AC/DC fan next door. Fans of the Sun City Girls and early Butthole Surfers will be pleased, however, to find a new psychedelic, grainy mindblast of a band. Meredith’s vocals are mixed lower than most singers, taking his vocals away from the spotlight and melding them into the rest of the instruments. A band like this can’t be found at just any club, so listen to Second Story Man‘s Carrie Neumayer, who “thinks the Invaders CD is the best local album I’ve heard in a long time.”