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A conversation from outer space with CARLTON MELTON.

That’s what festivals are about: getting out of your comfort zone and discovering new bands. Over and over again. Those who make bodies, souls and crowds move. I came across Carlton Melton at Desertfest Belgium 2023, on the very ideal Vulture Stage. These psychedelic wizards felt right at home in Antwerp with their out-of-time and out-of-space experiments. Equally mastering the art of supraluminic dazzle through wormholes and drone-like shreds of cloud running enchantingly overhead, Carlton Melton is a bacchanal of all things psychedelic. Having chatted with the Melton Magic Karpet, who talks as much about kraut as tennis, I was eager to interview them upon my return and get to know these Californians, who are as exciting on record as they are on stage.

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Carlton Melton track ‘vice versa’ included in compilation-BCR Clippings #1 | Various Artists | Broken Clover Records

BCR Clippings is a collection of 11 tracks from the Broken Clover Records family. Most are from current members of the roster, but we’ve also got a couple of future BCR artists. On this comp is everything from dreamy indie to queer country to glitchy beats to krautrock styles to stoner psych to dubby techno to some fuzzy post-rock

This is the first BCR Clippings compilation and, given the time limitations of tape cassette (our chosen physical format for this release), it is a fair representation of what we've been up to. We couldn't get everyone on here though, so there will just have to be more of these.

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Exclusive track premiere "‘mutiny’ from new album ‘turn to earth’ - It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine

Northern California psychedelic sorcerers Carlton Melton are brain surfers, mind trippers, …“psychlists,” if you prefer. The band will take your head for a ride, occasionally rushing at superluminal speeds through a wormhole or gliding softly on a gentle breeze in a leafy glade. Sometimes your brain needs to rage, and sometimes it needs to repose.

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CARLTON MELTON - UK/EU OCTOBER 2023 TOUR DATES/TICKET LINKS AVAILABLE HERE-

Oct 11 - GHENT, BE - @ Kinky Bar

Oct 12 - LONDON, UK - @ Strongroom Bar w/ Black Helium and Psychic Lemon

Oct 13 - GLASTONBURY, UK -  @ King Arthur w/ The Cosmic Dead

Oct 14 - HEBDEN BRIDGE, UK @ The Trades Club w/ Dead Sea Apes

Oct 15 - GLASGOW, UK @ Ivory Blacks w/ Nebula, The Cosmic Dead, Lucid Sins

Oct 17 - SALISBURY, UK @ The Winchester Gate

Oct 18 - BRISTOL, UK @ Crofter Rights w/ Sonic Jesus, Stereocilia

Oct 19 - MARGATE, UK @ Bar Nothing

Oct 20 - ANTWERP, BE @ Trix Desert Fest 

Oct 21 - AMIENS, FR @ Secret Show

Oct 23 - ANNAY LE CHATEAU, FR @ Bristrot Culture

Oct 24 - ROUEN , FR @ Le 3 Pieces

Oct 26 - ZWOLLE, NL @ Hedon w/ The Warlocks

Oct 27 - AMSTERDAM, NL @ OCCII w/ Sex Swing

Oct 29 - PARIS, FR @ La Maroquinerie e w/ The Warlocks 

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Carlton Melton 'turn to earth' 2XLP / CD pre-order here Bandcamp -

shipping out on or around October 6, 2023

Northern California psychedelic sorcerers Carlton Melton are brain surfers, mind trippers, … “psychlists,” if you prefer. The band will take your head for a ride, occasionally rushing at superluminal speeds through a wormhole or gliding softly on a gentle breeze in a leafy glade. Sometimes your brain needs to rage, and sometimes it needs to repose.

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CARLTON MELTON 'Turn To Earth" album announcement @ ECHOES AND DUST

As exquisite as Turn to Earth is, Melton are best appreciated as a live act: their recordings as well as their gigs are largely improvised – not so much composed as birthed. After the rockus interruptus of that 2018 tour and the tantric tease of the intervening Covid lockdown, Melton have some unfinished business. An October 2023 tour is poised to set the freshly minted quartet back onto the stages of Europe and within the cerebral folds of its fans.

Turn to Earth is released on October 6 2023 via Agitated Records and can be pre-ordered HERE

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