EARTHBALL - Outside Over There (Repress) - LP - Red & Black Splatter Vinyl [MAR 6]

LP - Limited Edition Red and Black Splatter Vinyl. A Phantasmagoria of Improvised Psychosis. #2 in The QUIETUS ‘Best Albums of 2025’.

Heavyweight psychedelic improvisers EarthBall are back with their third and most monstrous record to date: ‘Outside Over There’, released on Upset The Rhythm.

Born from the haunted basements of Nanaimo, Canada, the quintet thrives on spontaneity, shaping improvisation into jagged hallucinations and ecstatic eruptions. Recorded live-off-the-floor in 2024 in Jeremy, Izzy, and Kellan’s basement, and mixed by drummer John Brennan, ‘Outside Over There’ is an album that feels both summoned and inevitable. Each track lands with uncanny purpose, as if uncovered rather than written. The opener, 100%, features a cameo from comedian and cultural icon Stewart Lee, who lent his blessing for the band to use a fragment of his stand-up. The album was mastered by John Dieterich (Deerhoof), with liner text contributed by longtime comrade John Olson (Wolf Eyes). Olson describes the album in his unmistakable style:

“This eight-track odyssey unfolds like a dreamscape, where whispered incantations brush against the shadowy fringes of the cosmos, and wild, Cézanne-inspired rock anthems erupt like geysers of colour in the midst of a western warm and wet rain storm… culminating in the sprawling eleven-minute masterpiece, ‘And The Music Shall Untune The Sky,’ aptly dubbed the Earth Crusher. A creation so utterly deconstructed and intertwined with the pulse of nature itself that if AI was called upon to conceive ‘Outside Over There’ anew, it would just spit back, “F.U. in Tree Font”. An enchanting invitation for even the flat-earthers to join the circle, if only just a little.”

EarthBall’s trajectory has been relentless. Their 2024 album ‘It’s Yours’ was praised by The Quietus as “fully aggressive and fully life-affirming,” and by The Wire as "a boisterous mind-melting album”. The band’s live double set LP ‘Actual Earth Music Vol. 1 & 2’ (2025) captured blistering performances: a performance opening for Wolf Eyes at the Fox Cabaret, and a Café OTO improvised throw-down featuring Chris Corsano and Steve Beresford. These releases on their own confirm them as one of Canada’s most vital experimental exports, not to mention the impressive self-released discography on their Bandcamp. 

‘Outside Over There’ is more than an album though, it is a ritual, a gathering of sound at the forest’s edge; where feedback, saxophone screams, and ecstatic vocals dissolve the boundary between chaos and clarity. EarthBall invite you into their circle, to share in the joyful terror of spontaneous creation.

Tracklist: 

A1        100%
A2        Helsinki
A3        Outside Over There
A4        Seeing Doors Unlock
A5        Hellfire Relations

B1        Where I Come From
B2        Behind the Mall
B3        And Music Shall Untune The Sky

John Brennan - Mixing, Editing, Recording
John Dieterich - Mastering

Izzy Ford - Bass, Vocals, Electronics,
Jeremy Van Wyck - Guitar, Vocals, Noinput Mixer, Trumpet
John Brennan - Drums, Percussion, Electronics, Electronic Percussion
Liam Murphy - Saxophone