artist Golden Smoke

“…the sex was pretty good, but now I can’t shake the smell of the mattress…”

Formed in 2007, fashioned from the wreckage of doom inspired post-rock outfit SUNNDOWN, GOLDEN SMOKE have wasted no time opening spiritual voids and blowing even the most calloused of minds right out of the gate with their contagious waves of heavy psych and ragged soul inspired rock. Largely referential by virtue of their influences, their vibe harkens back to the hedonism and decadence of old, to a more classic and majestic damage, where volume, sex, pain, and light spiral out till you meet the floor, because if you don’t black-out, you aren’t doing it hard enough.

A now rare strain of Rock n roll swaggering outside of the sphere of ironic fluff that this generation has been left to settle with, Golden Smoke have been erected to drag your mind out of the plastic and in to the gutter, out of indifference and into the bliss, out of the cold and in to the violating neon where everything’s alright again.

The individual members of Golden Smoke have impressive track records in their own rights, enjoying a great deal of success in a number of different genres and groups, but have crossed one another regularly dating back to the late nineties in western Canadian cult acts Blood Music, This Island Ugetsu, Watercolor Movement and the aforementioned Sunndown. The Band consists of Bassist and Tambourine enthusiast Terry Mattson (Front man of indie-rock royalty THE JUNIOR PANTHERZ), Chad Munson (formerly of Victoria’s AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY, also known as Foal to those hip to the minimal electronic scene), Vocalist and Guitarist Chris Laramee (Formerly of PARADES AGAINST PARADES) and drummer Simon Tesfay, one of the most devastating performers in underground rock.

-Skot Hamilton