Passover The debut album from The Black Angels was phenomenal and became an instant favourite from the moment we first heard it. The follow up Directions To See A Ghost wasn’t half bad either. In fact it is to our eternal disappointment that we did not get to see them in their hometown on our trip to SxSW in 2009.

Anyway, the muscular five piece are preparing a new album Phosphene Dream for release in September (definitely one of MM’s top three most anticipated) and have already given up Bad Vibrations in exchange for an e-mail address here. Even better, a second track has been made available and this time they have changed direction slightly from the heavier Velvets / Spacemen 3 / Suicide influences to deliver something with more of a gentler psych-pop leaning calling to mind The Zombies perhaps. Telephone is just over two minutes long, and has just whetted our appetite for the new album even further…

Visit their MySpace here. Buy previous releases here.

Download The Black Angels – Telephone mp3 (from Phosphene Dream)

Download The Black Angels – The First Vietnamese War mp3 (from Passover)