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    DATURA4’S FIFTH STUDIO ALBUM “NEANDERTHAL JAM” IS OUT NOW (8.26.22) VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS!

    West Australian boogie masters Datura4 return with their highly anticipated fifth album, Neanderthal Jam. Fronted by Dom Mariani of legendary Oz garage rockers The Stems, Neanderthal Jam is eleven new tracks of psychedelicised blues and full-tilt heavy rock that were jammed out and recorded at their favourite south-west farmhouse studio during the early months of 2021. Having already released four acclaimed albums on AliveNatural Records Demon Blues (2015), Hairy Mountain (2016), Blessed is the Boogie (2019) and West Coast Highway Cosmic (2020), Neanderthal Jam sees them building upon and going beyond on another diverse collection of songs.

    Album opener ‘Going Back to Hoonsville’ gets things started with a relentless and pounding swing to get your hot wheels on. The jam is well and truly underway, and so the boogie gets heavy pursuing love in an inner sanctum on ‘Secret Society’ until the joyous organ groove of ‘Open the Line’ invites us to dance to the music.

    ‘Bad Times’ digs in on their OZ rock roots with a groove that the ‘Tatts’ (Rose Tattoo) would be proud of. ‘Black Speakers’ and title track ‘Neanderthal Jam’ keep the jams cooking with Bob Patient’s keyboard playing prowess on display proving what a welcome addition he has been to the band. An acoustic prelude that is ‘Hold My Life’ that leads into a pummelling boogie riff on ‘Worried Man’s Boogie’ sets the scene for personal concerns about a world and the times we find ourselves in.

    Full-throttle rocker ‘Digging My Own Grave’ turns the lights to ‘black and purple’ and the Witchdoctor takes us for a ride on ‘Fish Fry’ until we get to the epic sun-kissed west coast highway closer ‘Dry-By Island.’ Neanderthal Jam,……to be continued.

    Datura4’s new album Neanderthal Jam is out now via Alive Naturalsound Records. Click here to purchase/stream. Click here to order the limited splatter vinyl.

    FOR MORE INFO ON DATURA4:
    http://www.datura4.com

    FOR MORE INFO ON ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS:
    http://www.alive-records.com

    FOR MEDIA & INTERVIEW REQUESTS:
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    PREVIOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR DATURA4’S 2020 LP “WEST COAST COSMIC HIGHWAY”

    DATURA4 DROPS THEIR FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM “WEST COAST HIGHWAY COSMIC” APRIL 17, 2020 VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS

    Hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed third album, Blessed is the Boogie, Australian rockers Datura4 have hit the motorway running for another sonic journey through burning boogie, dirty blues and rock & roll soundscapes on their follow-up opus West Coast Highway Cosmic. The title was inspired by the highways that the band has traveled to get to the recording studios they’ve been using over the four albums they’ve done so far. The two studios are 200 kilometres [124 miles] apart and situated along the southwest coast of Western Australia. The long and sometimes lonely drives back and forth along these routes have definitely played its part in the band’s creative process, and whether it be new ideas or just listening back to what they’ve done in a previous session the ‘West Coast Highway Cosmic,’ as they like to call it, has been a constant spirit over all of Datura4’s studio recordings.

    West Coast Highway Cosmic sees Datura4 stretch out and experiment with their sound that they’ve been building on ever since their debut release Demon Blues in 2015. “I see every album as an extension from the previous one,” admits frontman Dom Mariani, “and I’m conscious about not rehashing the same things over. The collection of tunes on WCHC is slightly more eclectic than on the previous albums, which makes it really interesting and exciting for albums in the future. There was a more spontaneous and looser approach for the majority of the recording, where we would take the basic song idea and let things go until we had the take that we liked. We got into the grooves you might say.”

    “Bob Patient, who joined the group toward the end of the Blessed is the Boogie recording, was involved from day one on the new album and his keyboards play a bigger part and have added an additional flavour to the D4 sound,” Mariani adds. “I wouldn’t say it’s a different direction, but more about exploring additional possibilities as musicians.”

    Datura4 is:
    Dom Mariani: guitar and vocals
    Warren Hall: drums
    Stu Loasby: bass
    Bob Patient: keyboards

    Datura4’s new studio album West Coast Highway Cosmic will be released April 17th on limited edition vinyl, CD and digital/streaming formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.

    FOR MORE INFO ON DATURA4:
    alive-records.com/artist/datura4

    FOR MORE INFO ON ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS:
    alive-records.com

    FOR MEDIA & INTERVIEW REQUESTS:
    Tony Bonyata
    Pavement PR
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    pavementpr.com

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    PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR DATURA4’S 2019 ALBUM BLESSED IS THE BOOGIE

    AUSTRALIAN ROCK BAND DATURA4 TO RELEASE THEIR THIRD STUDIO ALBUM “BLESSED IS THE BOOGIE” APRIL 5, 2019 VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS

    Blessed is the Boogie is the eagerly anticipated third album by Western Australian rockers Datura4.

    Fronted by Aussie legend Dom Mariani, who came to prominence on the music scene in the 1980s with legendary garage rock combo The Stems, and later went on to form revered power pop outfits DM3 and The Someloves, Datura4 is Mariani’s return to his blues and heads-down, full-tilt boogie roots.

    Blessed is the Boogie is ten new songs that build on Datura4’s ‘guitars to infinity’ approach of Hairy Mountain (2016) and the hard rocking, progressive blues and psychedelic stylings of debut LP Demon Blues (2015). Both albums were released through Alive NaturalSound Records and gained critical acclaim at home, in Europe and the USA.

    Datura4 are stoked to share with you this new collection of songs. “Boom boom boom boom – Blessed is the Boogie.”

    Datura4’s Blessed is the Boogie will be available April 5th on Limited Edition Vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats via Alive Naturalsound Records.

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    BLESSED IS THE BOOGIE TRACKLISTING:
    01 Black Dog Keep Running
    02 Blessed Is The Boogie
    03 Looper
    04 Run With Lucy
    05 Ooh Poo Pah Doo
    06 Sounds of Gold
    07 Evil People Pt 2
    08 Not For Me
    09 Cat On A Roof
    10 The City of Lights

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    FOR MORE INFO ON DATURA4:
    https://www.alive-records.com/artist/datura4

    FOR MORE INFO ON ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS:
    http://www.alive-records.com

    FOR MEDIA & INTERVIEW REQUESTS:
    Tony Bonyata
    Pavement PR
    e: tony[AT]pavementpr.com
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    PREVIOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR DATURA4’S 2016 LP HAIRY MOUNTAIN:

    DATURA4 TO RELEASE THEIR LATEST STUDIO ALBUM “HAIRY MOUNTAIN” OCTOBER 28TH VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS!

    Rock ‘n’ Roll fans – please welcome Hairy Mountain – the second album from West Australia’’s Datura4. Building upon the “‘guitars-to-infinity’” approach of Datura4’’s acclaimed debut LP ‘Demon Blues’, ‘Hairy Mountain’ is ten solid tracks celebrating an unbridled joy for rock ‘’n’’ roll, with a nod to the spiritual presence of their hairy Oz Rock forefathers.

    The psychedelic cover art is by Joshua Marc Levy/Asheville Art Family.

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    Datura4’s Hairy Mountain will be available on limited colored vinyl, CD and digital formats October 28th via Alive Naturalsound Records.

    HAIRY MOUNTAIN TRACK LISTING:
    1. Fools Gold Rush
    2. Trolls
    3. Mary Carroll Park
    4. Uphill Climb
    5. Hairy Mountain
    6. Greedy World
    7. Confide in Me
    8. Too Much (or not enough)
    9. Something to Hide
    10. Broken Path

    FOR MORE INFO ON DATURA4:
    https://www.facebook.com/Datura4

    FOR MORE INFO ON ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS:
    http://www.alive-records.com

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    PREVIOUS PRESS RELEASE FOR DATURA4’S 2015 LP DEMON BLUES:

    Hailing from Fremantle in Western Australia, Datura4 is the brainchild of Dom Mariani (frontman of legendary Australian garage rockers The Stems and Power Pop favorites DM3) and Greg Hitchcock (former You Am I and one-time New Christs’ guitarist). In 2011 they joined forces combining a shared passion for full-tilt boogie, psychedelic rock and progressive blues.

    Along with drummer Warren Hall who previously played with The Drones and bass player Stu Loasby Datura4 have been steadily building a reputation in their hometown with their live performances. With a healthy nod to early ’70s Australian Psych/Blues/Boogie from the likes of Buffalo, Coloured Balls, The Aztecs and latter era Masters Apprentices, Demon Blues represents Mariani & Hitchcock’s love of hard hitting bell-bottom blues.

    The psychedelic cover art is by Joshua Marc Levy/Asheville Art Family.

    Datura4’s Demon Blues will be available on limited colored vinyl, CD and digital formats July 10th via Alive Naturalsound Records. The CD will include one bonus track not available on other formats, as well as alternate cover art.

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    DEMON BLUES TRACK LISTING:
    1. Out With The Tide
    2. You Ain’t No Friend Of Mine
    3. Another Planet
    4. Journey Home
    5. Demon Blues
    6. Hoonsville
    7. Pissin’ Up The Wall
    8. Killjoy
    9. Gravedigger Man
    10. Love To Burn

    FOR MORE INFO ON DATURA4:
    https://www.facebook.com/Datura4

    FOR MORE INFO ON ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS:
    http://www.alive-records.com

    FOR MEDIA REQUESTS:
    Tony Bonyata
    Pavement PR
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  • HERE’S WHAT CRITIC’S HAVE SAID ABOUT DATURA4:

    • [4 stars!] "... full-tilt road-friendly rock anthems. Neanderthal Jam is a reminder that heavy riffage still deserves a place in today's sonic firmament." - SHINDIG!
    • “The West Australian psych-groovers lay down a luscious cosmic boogie, all Hammond organ, loose-hipped Summer of Love warmth and fresh off their upcoming album Neanderthal Jam. Full-tilt retro fun, it bounces along like a hippie hitchhiker after a really good night’s sleep, seems to finish…and then trips out for another half a minute or so of freakdom. Impossible to listen and not think of blue skies and hot, hot sunshine. "– LOUDER
    • "Datura4's 'Open The Line' is the Coolest Song in the World." - LITTLE STEVEN'S UNDERGROUND GARAGE
    • "Datura4 stalk a darker, dirtier species of psychedelic boogie than their fellow cool West Australia types (Tame Impala, Pond..), and their latest single 'Going Back To Hoonsville' stirs Jim Jones-esque nastiness into a hypnotic, head-pounding shuffle." – CLASSIC ROCK
    • "Australian rock act Datura4 are psychedelic, bluesy and surging on their new single 'Open The Line' which is part of their upcoming album Neanderthal Jam. The message, as the band states, is simple – 'Love is the only answer.;” – ROLLING STONE
    • "The Western Australian natives always mind their trad rock and blues roots with a modern heft and sensibility when it comes to stone grooves and spaced licks." – GHOST CULT MAGAZINE
    • The feedback and slide-drenched boogie of 'Going Back To Hoonsville' is as catchy as COVID, neanderthally heavy, and as relentless as a desert highway car chase. – X-PRESS MAGAZINE
    • [9.5/10!] "Datura4 have a body of work that stands almost without equal in the last seven years, and Neanderthal Jam is but another piece of brilliance to add to the list." Andy Thorley, MAXIMUM VOLUME MUSIC
    • “The title cut from Australian garage rock/psych rock outfit Datura4's latest LP, West Coast Highway Cosmic, is the dash-pounding, air keyboard, rocking freakout this generation has long needed but was too afraid to ask for. Built on sturdy rhythms, lysergic twists and turns, and a vocal hook that won't soon leave you, this is the best of its kind since Deep Purple's ‘Highway Star.’” – Jedd Beaudoin, POPMATTERS
    • “Ah, the perfect middle ground. You could say that Australian quartet Datura4 play highway rock, stoner metal, chill doom or downer chug, and you’d be right on all fronts, the band striking that perfect spot between overdriven and stripped down.” - Chris Krovatin, KERRANG!
    • "...an overloaded boil of blasted psych blues. This aptly titled set is perfect for driving fast on long, lonely stretches of highway with the windows down and the wide-open night for company." - Thom Jurek, ALL MUSIC
    • “It’s tempting to think that the four are still on their way home from a festival in the Australian Outback in the 1960s, that they all dropped acid and never came home, and such is the laid-back harmonica driven slice of brilliance that is “Wolfman Woogie” that you can actually believe it. ‘West Coast Highway’ Cosmic” is a journey down roads you recognize, but still manages to reach for the universe beyond.” – Andy Thorley, MAXIMUM VOLUME MUSIC
    • ‘The ‘West Coast Highway’ in the album’s title refers to the geographical section of Australia (where the album was recorded), not California. Still, there’s no denying the ‘cosmic’ psychedelic threads running through everything. There are no weighty concepts at work, but lots of heavy playing on a batch of songs that go down easy. Push play and let it rip.” - Hal Horowitz, AMERICAN SONGWRITER
    • “… eminently grooveable. With its fuzzy blues-rock riff dipped in psychedelia, ‘You Be the Fool’ sounds like ‘Roadhouse Blues’ covered by Count Five. Reliable set pieces from the classic rock canon in unexpected variations make the song feel at once fresh and familiar: a wailing harmonica which might have been filched from Howlin’ Wolf by the Rolling Stones, a funk undercurrent that smacks of Stevie Wonder, a falsetto refrain which—down to the lyric ‘What you gonna do?’—seems to echo Gary Clark Jr. on ‘What About Us.’ - M. L. Rio, THE VINYL DISTRICT
    • “Datura4’s new single ‘You’re The Only One’, one of the standout tracks on the upcoming album, finds the band channeling the acoustic swamp blues of Tony Joe White alongside the big rock and roll harmonies of acts like the Black Keys.” – Neil Ferguson, GLIDE MAGAZINE
    • “West Coast Highway Cosmic is full-tilt chug-a-lug perfect for sunny day road trippin’ or nighttime head-bangin’. Dig it!” - Aaron Stein, JAMBASE
    • “If you need to just check the hell out of whatever’s going on around you (for just shy of four minutes, anyway), this soft, suspenseful fusion of haunting blues, slide and wild west flavours on Datura4’s single ‘You’re The Only One’ is your guy.” - Polly Glass, CLASSIC ROCK
    • [4/5 stars!] “West Coast Highway Cosmic is as consistent as white lines flashing past in the middle of the road, and is once again loaded with snarly, stripped-back riffage and keys-heavy, bad-ass blues jams. Datura4 are on a first-rate, four-album roll here – blessed with Dom’s honest, earthy DNA and with a little ‘patience’ thrown in to broaden their sound. Cosmic, indeed….stellar, even.” - Mark “Mad Dog” Shaw, GET READY TO ROCK
    • “If you enjoy the Boogie, you’re gonna love this band! Think of American bands like Grand Funk Railroad or British bands like Deep Purple and you’ll have a good place to start from. The music is stripped down and Bluesy, with solid rhythms providing the groundwork for great harmonica breaks and fine guitar licks.” - FEAR AND LOATHING
    • [4/5 stars!] “West Coast Highway Cosmic is a great album from beginning to end. It should be the perfect soundtrack to your summer.” - Aaron Badgley, SPILL MAGAZINE
    • “Mariani’s masterful guitar tone is established early and continues throughout the 10 tracks. He doesn’t mess around with achingly long solos and instead delivers essential heft to every song in a way that sets him apart from many of his contemporaries.” - Jeff Monk, WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
    • “Everybody loves a summer road trip. Of course, you can probably add that to the list of things you won’t be doing anytime soon. But hey, you can still dream of being a highway star. And while you do, you might as well spin the fourth full-length from these hard-driving Australian indie-rockers. In keeping with its handle, West Coast Highway Cosmic might be the perfect soundtrack for your involuntary staycation: 10 road-rested, psychedelia-spiked slices of old-school rock, organ-laced electric blues and freewheeling Outback boogie.” - Darryl Sterdan, TINNITIST
    • "Blessed Is the Boogie certainly wears the group's debt to John Lee Hooker and other boogie masters proudly on its sleeve. But tracks such as 'Not For Me' and 'Cat on a Roof' are more expansive and compositionally ambitious, while the acoustic-flavored 'City of Lights' hews toward some of Mariani's power-pop background." - Gary Graff, BILLBOARD
    • Elements of hard-lined blues remain evident, but are primarily smoothed out by a dominant, free-formed ’70s psych sparsity. Those sprawling soundscapes themselves threaten explosive outbreaks yet are reigned in further with a defining boogie, a heavy footstomp of swagger that sets a more contemporary course. – ROLLING STONE
    • If you dig your blues heavy, garage-y and festering with a mind-stewing barrage of psych-fueled overtones, then you’ve just got to pick up this groove-pummeling debut from Aussie four-piece Datura4. – THE BLUES MAGAZINE
    • 9/10! A way smokin’ slab of pysch ‘n’ furious jams, powered by amped to 11 guitars and straight-up boogaloo. Demon Blues is pretty much satisfaction guaranteed. - VIVE LE ROCK
    • 4.5/5! Datura4’s Demon Blues 70s rock will grab you like a Torana driver’s handshake in the days before power steering. There are saturated and overdriven guitars all over these 10 songs like a rash on a Led Zeppelin groupie. - I-94 BAR
    • Groovy, glammy, psychedelic blues. - POPMATTERS