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'Green Hills’ is the sun-warped debut album from Cornish four-piece The Heavenly Bodes. Recorded on reel-to-reel in a friend’s living room between trips to the beach, it features a collection of lo-fi garage-psych numbers that vary in feel – sometimes twisting and erratic, sometimes sedated and meandering – but all drenched in tape hiss and left out on the pebbles to dry. These are salad-days dreams of escapism melting under the summer sun, evoking the clammy rooms from which they came.

Emerging from South Cornwall’s grassroots psych scene – through various chance encounters at Kernowbeat (formerly Kernow Psych Society) shows in Falmouth – The Heavenly Bodes channel a shared love of classic 60s acid-garage into something immediate and intimate, and specifically rooted in the here and now of the West Coast cornucopia they call home. Fully self-produced, it captures the band’s loose, unpolished spirit – landing somewhere between scrappy garage-rock abandon and woozy Velvets cool. It’s the sound of jangly surf riffs, hard-hitting bass grooves and hazy organ dissolving into the salty sea air.

On the record, the Heavenly Bodes write: “'Green Hills' was lovingly recorded during the infamous Swanpool heatwave of July 2025. Live tracked into an 8 (occasionally 7) track whilst clad in straw hats and tanning oils, the album is a testament to the clearly adequate cooling systems of the Fostex R-8. Recorded and mixed by our very own Fin Wilson, resident caretaker of central Penryn. With thanks to Eggland and neighbours, Jack & co. at Fuzz Club and countless others. Please enjoy responsibly.”

The Heavenly Bodes are Paul Ruskin (vocals/guitar), Alex Mantle (drums), Fin Wilson (vocals/guitar/organ) and Iolo Puleston (bass).

TRACK LISTING

1. De Groene Heuvels
2. Acting
3. Five Ways
4. Faux Pillars
5. Spitting The Pips Out
6. National Express
7. Sea Water
8. Edward's Allotment
9. The Heavenly Bodeinf