Modern-day psychedelic pioneers, Golden Animals, are a rock duo formed in Brooklyn, but owe much of their sound and vision to the 3 years they spent submerged in the rattling, secluded heat waves of the Southern Cali Desert. Their sound is a dead-ahead, no bullshit, loud, minimalist vehicle for strikingly well crafted, powerful songs. Referencing influences from Billie Holiday to Dr. John to Lou Reed to The Doors with many stops between, they believe in the simple as a means to the powerful.

In their 8-year career they’ve divided their time between the hustle of Brooklyn and the release of the desert, considering them complimentary extremes. The band is Linda Beecroft on drums / backing vocals and singer / guitarist Tom Eisner. Tom was raised in Baltimore, MD and Linda in Northern Sweden. They formed in Brooklyn in 2006 and embarked on a nomadic way of life together.

Er man til Eik Skaløe og hans kumpaner i Steppeulvene, så bedes man rette blikket mod De Underjordiske. Kernen i bandet udgøres af Peter Kure og brødrene Kristian og Andreas Bengtsen. Med en hjælpende hånd fra Thomas Brandt på trommer og Christian Vind Skibdal på bas, udgør de et utroligt spændende kapitel i dansk undergrunds-rock.

Flere af de førnævnte musikere slår til daglig deres folder i blandt andet The Wands og The Woken Trees.

De Underjordiske spiller alt fra fængende – nærmest poppede – uptempo numre til storladne melodier og repetitive droner.

Lyrikken er dansk og beskæftiger sig med emner som frigørelse, kærlighed og spiritualitet, som bliver sat ind i en mytologisk kontekst, og der skal graves, hvis man vil til bunds i både De Underjordiskes lyrik og drivende, broderende guitarspil.