Reviews:
“Consider me both terrified and utterly delighted… Sublimely weird without necessarily completely jettisoning harmony and song structure. It’s a fine balance”
- Jon Behm, Reviler 2/23“Pure mayhem and creeping wildness. There’s so much to unpick, decipher and entangle from this madcap laughs bizarre chemistry. A demonic Sabbath turns into a peyote Spaghetti Western on an album that exists in its very own cosmology and manic obscurity. Untethered magik, over-sexed hormones and fun reign supreme on a fantastic psychedelic work of art.”
- Monolith Cocktail 1/23“The band is beyond what I can even term experimental. Genuinely exceptional and unmatched. Galactapus and their peculiar musical creation make me want to know about them more than any other musical group ever has, and how their brilliance came into existence.”
- Saiid Zeidan, Medium 12/22https://www.saiidzeidan.com/the-lustful-arts-original-single-by-galactapus/
“Galactapus are an arcane, experimental, frightening and unclassifiable creature. A poisonous bluff that will outrage most, but will enchant the most unconventional minds. In a word: Stupendous!”
- Artisti Online 12/22https://www.artistionline.tv/l/galactapus-the-lustful-arts/
“There isn’t going to be another band like Galactapus. They are golden. Sometimes, while listening to their music, you can’t help but feel they deserve to have a genre designated to them.”
- Katrina Yang, Punk Head 11/22“You might wonder how or where they could possibly push the boundaries of their audible journey any further. To call the band ‘experimental’ would be an understatement.”
- Less Than 1,000 Followers 11/22https://lessthan1000followers.com/2022/11/18/galactapus-and-the-lustful-arts/
“Indescribably beautiful. It is reductive to define it unique. This band is creating something never heard before and they are taking compositional barriers to another level… they make you realize how endless are the paths of creativity. Absolutely amazing!”
- Edgar Allan Poets 11/22https://www.edgarallanpoets.com/the-lustful-arts-is-galactapus-single-video/
“Unusual and strange sound, combining all manner of instruments to create something unlike I have ever heard before”
- The Metal Asylum 11/22https://the-metal-asylum.com/2022/11/21/galactapus-the-lustful-arts/
“Enigmatic, intense and cerebral… Galactapus sets us on a fierce psychedelic adventure. We are obsessed with the chaos and arthouse horror delivered by the outfit.”
- Karl Is My Unkle 3/22“Galactapus open a portal to a disturbing and fascinating dimension… Turn up the volume and enter the liquid universe.”
- Raphael Lukas (MangoWave) 3/22http://mangorave.blogspot.com/2022/03/fresh-mango-march-04-2022.html
“Quite unforgettable and bizarre… Galactapus blurs the exact meanings in lyrics and amplifies the non-verbal in vowels and emotions, but you get a feeling you could almost understand them. Evocative, ancient, impressionistic and highly addictive.”
- Katrina Yang (Punk Head) 2/22https://thepunkhead.com/alternative-rock/review/galactapus-walking-the-troll
“There is a heavy deep-seeded weirdness that blooms strange flowers. Rhythms have a tribal, mystical quality about them. Everything here gets fuzzed-up all the way to heaven. ‘Waking The Troll’ features one of the strangest series of riffs and melodies I have heard for a long time, proving Galactapus to be one of the most unique bands out there right now.”
-Colm Slattery (Fruit Sonic) 2/22“There are musics which cannot be described with conventional words. This is the case with the astonishing musical world of Galactapus.”
- Indie Chronique (Paris) 2/22https://indiechronique.fr/le-monde-etonnant-de-galactapus
“Awesome… Superb… A unique and innovative release”
- FVMusicBlog 2/22https://fvmusicblog.com/hot-picks-the-best-new-releases-25-2-22-part-one/
“Imagine the band Braniac jamming with the Sun City Girls…and you’ll get a vague glimpse of the outcome.”
- David Fenech of David F Presents (Paris) 2/22https://davidfpresents.com/2022/02/18/galactapus-2/
“Are you ready to listen to something absolutely weird and innovative? This band is amazing. These guys are not afraid to walk musical paths that have never been traveled before. Their sound is wild, sinister and mysterious… nowadays it is difficult to find something innovative and therefore I feel lucky to have found the Galactapus. A fantastic find that I recommend to everyone.”
- Chris Moriatti (Edgar Allen Poets/Noir Music) 1/22https://www.edgarallanpoets.com/galactapus/
“Sensational! Delicious empirical strangeness… absurd conceptual detachment… the synergistic journey provided by this group is awesome! It is impossible not to be duly abducted… Incredible the result of the work!”
- Alessandro Iglesias (Roadie Music) 1/22“Brand new unheard-of music based on punk psychedelia and shamanic sound… fascinating and mesmerizing… abstract and grotesque… a prototype of the union of the living and the dead.”
- Indie Dock Music Blog 1/22http://indiedockmusicblog.co.uk/?p=10558
“A nihilistic krautrock psychedelic trip. If you dig Can and/or Can, then this one’s for you!”
- Last Day Deaf (Beyond Boundaries) 1/22http://lastdaydeaf.com/beyond-boundaries-seventy-five/
“While this ‘Xmas EP’ may have tenuous ties to your sugar plum fairy dreams, the psychotic Gingerbread People will haunt you soon enough… and leave you in a puddled mass of Yule Tide putty wondering why Santa doesn’t love you anymore.”
- Slartibartfast (KFJC Palo Alto Hills) 12/21https://spidey.kfjc.org/43452/galactapus-you-better-not-cry-self-released/
“Willfully bizarre… a synth-punk laser-fest”
- The Answer Is In The Beat (WCBN Ann Arbor), 12/21https://theanswerisinthebeat.net/2021/12/11/galactapus-you-better-not-cry-self-released-2021/
“From note one of the opening, manic ‘Waking The Troll’ to the last nanosecond of the moody closer, ‘AntiClimacto’ the listener is pulled through a myriad of fun, adventurous, textured sounds that keep your ears glued. As “out” as Chrome, the Residents, and early Wire were at their wildest, this lo-fi truly American combo keeps that sonic spirit alive over the course of 15 songs, making this a seriously fun ride! Dig it!”
- The Big Takeover issue #88, Spring 2021“Never rewarding you with what you expect. Galactapus insists on playing this almost deconstructed psychedelic rock. They’re not afraid to throw in a shaker, toy pianos, and god-knows-what noises that sound like a fishing pole being reeled in… all keeping with the album’s spare weirdness. I keep wanting it to turn into some hokey garage rock, but Galactapus refuses. This refusal is what makes the album.”
- Razorcake 05/21https://razorcake.org/galactapus-i-intend-to-stay-lp/
“There are albums that awaken all your senses and instincts… who says experimentation is parked? Emancipated, one by the skull, as the bright side of serious experimental bands. Magically cheeky.”
- Tot De Pop (Spain) (courtesy of Google Translate) 04/21http://totdepop.blogspot.com/2021/04/galactapus-festival-experimental.html?m=1
“Sci-fi psychedelic art-punk. Or if you prefer Flash Gordon on acid!”
- Last Day Deaf (Beyond Boundaries) 04/21http://lastdaydeaf.com/beyond-boundaries-fifty-three/
“Perfect for evoking a mood of carefree skullfucked-ness, which is perfect for these times… I Intend To Stay is a damn near perfect specimen of personalized musical vision, effectively put into this world, and this world is surely better for its appearance.”
- Mark Pino of Disaster Amnesiac 02/21http://disasteramnesiac.blogspot.com/2021/02/galactapus-i-intend-to-stay-self.html
“The music of Galactapus is an enigma. I believe they sing in an invented language. We can think of Residents / Snakefinger grandchildren sometimes. Oingo Boingo / Danny Elfman other times. A very special group to follow.”
- David Fenech of David F Presents (Paris) 11/20https://davidfpresents.com/2020/11/20/galactapus/
“Steeped in mystery with masks to put the rest of us to shame, Galactapus offers up psych-punk with a twist of Euro-pop and costumes straight from the house of glam… If you fall into that particular section of the Venn diagram that captures Can, early Doors and Serge Gainsbourg, then I suspect you may just have the right ears - bend them back and take a trip to the curious world of Galactapus.”
- Breaking Glass Magazine (UK) 01/21“like a 60’s bad trip exploitation movie meets Japanese psychedelia… on par with some of the best junkshop gems, as well as being a missing link between the Residents and early Chrome.”
- SCREEMZ (Chicago) 10/20https://screemz.wordpress.com/2020/10/01/rockwroc-3/
Testimonials:
“Aquatron Brother is radical as fuck. To my old ears, it’s like Hasil Adkins decided to jam with the Butthole Surfers but then all of a sudden everybody chilled out while some kinda Twin Peaks BIG GUITAR took over and slow-walked the whole shenanigans home. But maybe that’s just me and maybe I’ve been on too many psychedelic safaris…”
- Robert Pritchard of Radio Free Brooklyn“The amazing Galactapus… I love it. It’s so fun, and so original, and its makes me so happy to hear”
- Michele with One L of WFMU