Release: Major Stars - More Colors of Sound

Artiest/Band: Major Stars Album: More Colors of Sound Single:  Release Friday, October 24th 2025 Label:  Records /Drag City Format: CD/LP/DL/Vinyl Genre: Psych-noise en garagerock The endless churning wheel of time revolverates once again, spinnin’ out the latest evolution of timeless rock revival sounds native to Boston’s Major Stars! More Colors of Sound features eight new slabs of hard-hitting post-lysergia.......►►►

The endless churning wheel of time revolverates once again, spinnin’ out the latest evolution of timeless rock revival sounds native to Boston’s Major Stars! More Colors of Sound features eight new slabs of hard-hitting post-lysergia, their storied guitar trio buzz-and-squallin’ in service of some sweet lyrical melodies. Writing’s divided, for the 1st time ever, between Wayne Rogers and the team of Tom Leonard & Noell Dorsey. More Colors forever!

Band: Major Stars Noell Dorsey - Vocals Wayne Rogers - Guitar Tom Leonard - Guitar Kate Village - Guitar David Dougan - Bass Casey Keenan - Drums

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Out of the roiling miasma of timeless time comes a long-promised delivery from one of the constants of our era: Major Stars, and their new LP, More Colors of Sound. Fueled by overdriven guitars and gut-punching rhythm, these veteran rockers are stalwart in their delivery of trippy, psyched-out extremes. Over the 27 years since The Rock Revival (their Twisted Village debut), they can be counted on to come back around every three or four years or so, with something heavy picked up on their journey. This time, it’s been since 2019’s Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy — but what’s a few years in the larger scheme of things? Because ‘larger’ IS the Major Stars scheme of things, one that’s always cut deeply into the grooves.

YES. It’s been since the late 90s that Major Stars have been transmitting their signal. But even eternity wasn’t built in such an arc of time: Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar have been crossing necks dating back to the 80s, with Crystallized Movements’ screaming psych-punk hybrids. Tom Leonard, MajorStars’ current third axeman, has been in the mix almost as long: Luxurious Bags’ amorphous low-fi (that’s him!) was released on Twisted Village too, and Kate and Wayne and him all played together in Vermonster. After the demise of Magic Hour — Wayne and Kate’s proto-freak-folk outfit with Damon & Naomi — the three of them formed Major Stars, with Wayne singing and Dave Lynch on drums. Which brings us… not quite to today, but, the More Colors of Sound lineup is as-was for Roots of Confusion Seeds of Joy: Kate, Tom, Wayne, Dave Dougan on bass, Casey Keenan on drums and Noell Dorsey singing lead.

More Colors of Sound had been earmarked as a title for nearly twenty years when they started work on the album that would finally bear its name. For the first ten Major Stars releases, Wayne wrote everything, but due to the way things were in 2020 and 2021, Tom and Noell wrote a bunch of things together, along with Wayne’s stuff. By the time they got to Gloucester’s Bang-A Song Studios, there was enough music for a double LP! A double’s a once-in-a-lifetime dream scenario, but once they’d done the overdubs, they skinnied it down to the 44 minutes here — 22 minutes of each songwriting team. Ultimately democratic, not too long… you don’t see that much nowadays!

As ever (and ever), the crush of the three guitars as they riff with the rhythm defines Major Stars’ sound. The work of two writing camps has produced a song-centric focus on More Colors of Sound— one, of course, shot through with distorted tones, fevered neck-wringing solos and several extended jammers — but the production overall has a cleaner sound than its predecessor. That, plus the increased number of writers on deck gives the title a kind of kismet to go along with its historical weight, and that’s alright!

On More Colors of Sound, Major Stars find new hues inside the incendiary approach that’s launched them so ecstatically since early times; another jar of infinity captured with a quality all its own — and it’s all in the grooves!

For more information contact Stefan.Hayes@v2benelux.com

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Major Stars kondigen nieuw album aan : More Colors Of Sound : luister naar 'Blackout'

De Major Stars uit Boston hebben de rockgoden al meer dan 27 jaar trouw tevreden gesteld met caleidoscopische psych-noise en garagerock. Hun laatste album was Roots Of Confusion uit 2019, Seeds Of Joy . Vandaag zijn ze terug met de aankondiging van de opvolger More Colors Of Sound , die in oktober uitkomt via Drag City. Ze geven alvast een voorproefje van het album met de single "Blackout". "Blackout" is een ongerepte en beleefd verpulverende jam. De gitaren van Wayne Rogers, Tom Leonard en Kate Village schuren naar voren en gaan over in spiraalvormige soloriffs. Casey Keenans drums zijn helder en weelderig. David Dougans bas is een neonstraal van voortstuwing. Noell Dorseys zang is zacht en zwelt soms aan tot een machtige schreeuw. Ze noemt thee van bloemen en (klinkt het?) iets over overgeven op schaduwen. Het is een spookachtige bohemian die doet denken aan The Doors of T. Rex. Samen heeft hun geluid een psychrockachtige vertrouwdheid zonder dat het pastiches klinkt NUMMERLIJST: 01 “Final Analysis” 02 “Midpoint” 03 “Wrapped Up In Circles ” 04 “Erasable Time” 05 “Like a Siren” 06 “Here There & Gone” 07 “Blackout” 08 “Not Alone”