excited to be playing some shows at the end of this month with High wolf in Germany. Swing by if your round these parts:

• 29.05.13 – Golden Pudel, Hamburg, DE w/ High Wolf
• 30.05.13 – Ortloff, Leipzig, DE w/ High Wolf
• 31.05.13 – Brachmanns Galeron (DJ set), Hamburg, DE w/ High Wolf
• 01.06.13 – Die Friese, Bremen, DE w/ High Wolf

We are super stoked to announce that the ltd edition of 200 copies of our debut LP vinyl, I’d rather listen to the bloody birds (UFIB002), is all gone. So thanks everyone for the support. We may be doing another run of 100 or so in the near future.

If you missed out on picking one up from our bandcamp these stores may still have a couple:

• Rough Trade, London.
• SpaceHall, Kreuzberg, Berlin.
• HHV.de, F’hain, Berlin.
• Permanent Records Chicago, US.
• Clearspot, Netherlands.

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gonzo interview 2013 (in dutch) by Inger Van der Ree 

So here’s our version of Pink Floyd – Saucerful of Secrets. We got asked a while back by Yoshi Sodeoka to do a cover of a Pink Floyd track for the visual collective/project Plink Flojd. The awesome visuals are by Theodore Darst.

and here is the full version of the track as we had to shave about 2mins+ off for the vid:

If your in the states you can now purchase our LP at Permanent Records*. Here’s what they had to say about the LP:

“An Australian band that moved to Germany that started a heavy instrumental psychedelic group that get’s its record funded by a “grow your own” website called Magic Mushroom Shop?  Oh yeah.. this is gonna get tons of spins round Permo-HQ.  This release is a quintessential Permanent record, it’s got fugged up 3d-ish artwork and the lysergic sonics coming out of our speakers are of the most ear pleasing psychedelic variety.  “I’d Rather Listen To The Bloody Birds” is grooving through the acid vision cosmos with driving beats, melodic bass lines, effect drenched guitars creating future primitive instrumental head swirlers from start to finish.  Strange Focus are squinting the sounds of acts like White Hills, Disappears, Camera, The Telescopes and Swervedriver and concocting their own brand of fungus minded psychedelia, a sound that conjures the depths of the mind with a heaping helping of VOLUME.  Crank this sucker and stare at your hand for a few hours.  .. wait… did that chair just move? Supremely Recommended.”

*update: back in stock at permo: click here.

We’re stoked to have a track featured on this Mannequin compilation (MNQ 034) by Mushy. It’s an awesome one, listen & pre order the LP at their bandcamp.

video shoot & recording at one million mangoes, Berlin – Jan 2013