Album Recommendation: Constant Current Stimulus by Dr. Mocker (2025)

Breakneck psych rock (think Death From Above 1979’s classic You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine or King Gizzard’s genre-defining Nonagon Infinity) with a heavy emphasis on 50’s midnight creature feature vibes, this debut LP from Dr. Mocker is a shockingly good listen and deserves a lot of attention. If nothing else, for how well the band maintains the tantalizingly oppressive tone without making the thing dreary. Indeed, it thrums with an unhinged energy that explodes in tracks like “A Comfortable Lie,” and coils back up into the metal-spike ornamented steampunk jack-in-the-box that is the overall vibe of the thing (like mood-setters "Channels" and "Air of Sighs"). And that it all ends in an exemplary transition to a stunner of a ten minute-prog rocker ("Under the Rocks") is just icing on the cake.