Release Date 28th November 2025
RSD Black Friday
Space-surf-psych-rock quartet Japanese Television's album 'Automata Exotica' has been remixed by invited friends and peers; including Goat Fool from GOAT, Factory Floor's Gabe Gurnsey, and Edgar Breau from cult band Simply Saucer.
Informed by UFO encounters, ritualism, robots, Northern Soul, and nuclear weapons,
'Automata Exotica' was released in March 2024 and was described as "Heavy but also
joyful" by The Quietus, "A fuzzy blast of space-surf energy"in Shindig and "A remarkable and unique proposition" by Louder Than War.
Rather than having been transformed out of all recognition, "reimagined" is a more apt
term to describe this new version of 'Automata Exotica'. With the album's eight tracks
presented via considered, alternative mixes with pertinent sonic application, it hangs together incredibly coherently - albeit as a wild and feverish psychedelic experience.
JTV toured with GOAT while writing 'Automata Exotica', with the fat fuzz tones and
extended middle percussion section of 'Typhoon Reggae Police' heavily influenced by
their time watching and learning from side stage. Starting life as an uneasy mixture of
scratchy 60s garage rock and 70s Afghan psych folk, Goat Fool from GOAT ripped the
song apart and stitched it back together. Recognisable but weird and uncanny, it's a
stripped down, oppressive, shimmering voodoo nightmare.