Light Up and Live

Psychedelic rockers Harsh Toke explore sound and space through music. On the San Diego Acid Rock band's 2013 debut album Light Up And Live, loud, heavy guitars, swimming bass lines and smashing drums warp to full throttle, cranking insanity, working together to launch the red hot group's unapologetic and unsophisticated Psychedelic Blues into interstellar overdrive. Led by ripping pro skater and rip-roaring guitarist Justin 'Figgy' Figueroa, Harsh Toke are equal parts atmospheric and anarchic, merging raging, blind fury musicianship with unprecedented white-knuckle volume abuse. Tense and surreal, Harsh Toke's songs slowly build from hallucinatory haze into grand overtures of noise and feedback; a cosmic buffet of pounding, pummeling and punishing as if the ocean itself belched forth ornery, astral planes of sound. Heavy. Cosmic. Kinetic.