Everyone’s favourite psychedelic folk rock pranksters, The Uplifting Bell Ends bring you ‘Super Giant IV’ — their epic 5th album and what the band are calling “the finale of the Super Giant saga”. To celebrate the release, the band is heading interstate to perform the new record and some of their biggest hits for their devoted fans, alongside special local guests!

Certainly not shy of owning a stage, The Uplifting Bell Ends (aka “The Bell Ends”) are renowned for their chaotic, yet charismatic live shows and have gained more than cult level adoration in the Australian underground rock scene, since their first albums ‘World Music’ and ‘Super Giant’ were released back in 2015. The Bell Ends’ effortlessly cool lofi approach to music-making and performing is guaranteed to warm the hearts of any listener. The band is an eccentric cast of pranksters that have a special chemistry that can only come from true friends.

During the pandemic in 2020/21, frontman and fearless visionary James French and the band’s multi-instrumentalist Chet Tucker found themselves living in a remote community in Northern Territory. It was during their time living in the desert that the two friends wrote the new album together, before coming home to South Sydney and recording with the rest of the Bell Ends.

‘Super Giant IV’ shows yet another colour in the band’s eclectic rock n roll palette, tied together by their conceptual brilliance, underrated musicianship and James French’s knack for writing some of the most memorable and catchy lyrics you’ll hear today. Departing from their usual psychedelic and garage rock songs, the new album explores influences from American rock of the late 60s and early 70s, as the band draws from country rock, folk and blues throughout. The Grateful Dead, The Flying Burrito Brothers, The Rolling Stones and The Band all come to mind on this record, but The Uplifting Bell Ends make every song their own with their unique lofi pub rock spin.

‘Super Giant IV’ is out everywhere on September 30th via Third Eye Stimuli Records.

“The Uplifting Bell Ends Flying Nun meets 1960s garage sound sets them apart from the plethora of bands stuck in the throwback cycle.”  – Happy Mag

“Conjuring up the melodic tropes of classic rockers Donovan and The Kinks, but emitted with the raw “coolness” of The Velvet Underground...”  – Life Without Andy

“Whatever the mood, prepare for the chaos - it’s always going to be a wild ride with The Uplifting Bell Ends.” – Deafen County