TheEliteExtremophile
On Worm!, Regal Worm’s fifth full-length release, the sound palette is a bit more diverse, but this pays dividends. While the songs don’t flow together seamlessly like on the last Worm release, there’s still a unique energy to Gosling’s music.
Jennifer Jupiter
Holy fucking cow, brilliant!! Packed with twisty-turny melodies, rhythms, thrills and surprises. This head be royally ripped to pieces..
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Compact Disc edition, pressed at Sony in Austria. Comes to you in a luscious high quality digipak with Goblink artwork.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The vinyl edition of Regal Worm's new album. Pressed on heavyweight 180gm black vinyl (Black is the best sound carrier!). Pressed at Optimal in Germany.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Overdose with both formats of the new album at a discounted price!
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The beautiful Worm! 12'' LP with cover signed by Regal Worm captain and cover artist Jarrod Gosling!
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Worm! - Very Limited Edition Vinyl Test Pressing w/Bespoke Artwork
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Bandcamp Exclusive! A very limited edition of six vinyl test pressings of 'Worm!'. Each copy features a hand drawn label/dust cover which is signed by Regal Worm. Each copy is individually numbered. The vinyl is black heavyweight and housed in a slick Optimal card sleeve.
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UK. Royal Mail first class signed.
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Side One
1. Regal Wishbone
2. Don't Freak Out The Creatures
3. Dindy Super
4. The Steppe Nomad Space Program
Side Two
1. Bong Song
2. Chlorophyllia
3. Green Beetle, Plate 31
4. Is There Anything Blacker Than A Black Cat?
5. Hop
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Regal Worm release Worm!, the fizzy, dizzy follow up to 2021's The Hideous Goblink. It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly a decade since Regal Worm first emerged from the mud. And what a long segmented body of work it has been with no less than five albums under its clitellum! (look it up, it’s not a rude word). With a small bag of heavy friends, Varrod Goblink continues to create astonishing music in his very own loft laboratory. Crammed with a growing number of vintage, dusty instruments, clean vintage instruments, computer tech foolery and weird looking banks of machines festooned with twiddly knobs, a visitor might wonder if they’d accidentally wandered into some sort of TARDIS.
Varrod has added even more wide ranging musical ingredients into the cosmic soup; from the skittering tribal rhythms of afro hippie rock in Bong Song to the New Wave Devo 7/4 time jerkiness of Hop. The infectiously bouncy and green minded, Chlorophyllia evokes the memory of eighties post punk popsters, Fun Boy Three (if they’d harked from Dagobah rather than Coventry) and there’s even an electronica nod to Varrod’s mother band, the hitmakers, I Monster, no less.
Lyrically, this new outing is tonally more wriggly and playful than last year’s album, (The Hideous Goblink. Do we need to mention the title again?) which reflected on the troubling issues we currently face this century. Worm! does not dwell on such dark matters this time around. In Regal Wishbone, Varrod contemplates if humans could only fly wondrously like birds and in Don’t Freak Out The Creatures our hero then considers space travel as the only way forward. When the listener really takes flight is experiencing the grandiose nine and a quarter minute long Kazakhstan folk/jazz/EDM centre piece symphony, The Steppe Nomad Space Program, a tale full of hope as extraterrestrials exit their craft in the Steppe only to be greeted by fellow nomads of the humankind.
It’s not all Sci-fi Ray Bradbury-land though; for your delight, there is the cosmological and ecclesiastical sounding (with a dash of acid techno thrown in) Is There Anything Blacker Than A Black Cat?, wistful synth-heavy numbers like Dindy Super, a nostalgic lament for the simple pleasures of a cheap audio cassette tape and the filmic space-funk track, Green Beetle, Plate 31 that examines the chemistry of aphrodisiacs and marks the first love song ever composed by Regal Worm. Even invertebrates need love.
Varrod Worm and Cecilia Fage's brand new choral organ based psychedelia. Elements of Vertigo swirl era fused with contemporary manipulations! Regal Worm
In 2019, I was in Salisbury and attended the Alphabet Business Convention without knowing any artist. Lost Crowns was my favourite band that played there. Pablo P.
got recc'd this on youtube and loved it- reminds me a lot of late 60's and early 70's records i used to hear playing out of my parents' stereo on sweltering summer days. OPAL
