ACID TONGUE | Seattle. WA

RANKED #33 ON CHARTMETRIC - PSYCHEDELIC ARTISTS (GLOBALLY) [4/17/24]

VIDEOS

DSP | EDITORIAL SUPPORT

RADIO | SPECIALTY, NON-COM & COLLEGE

Stations Supporting All Releases: 107.7 The End • 3WK • AM1700 • BIRN • CFUR • CHIRP • CHMR • CJSF • CJSW • KALA • KALX • KAMP • KAOS • KBCZ • KBGA • KBMF • KCSC • KCSU • KDHX • KDUR • KDVS • KEUL • KEXP • KGLT • KHOL • KHSU • KLCZ • KLPI • KMUD • KMUW • KPUR • KRBX • KRJF • KRSC • KRTU • KRUA • KRUI • KRUX • KSCU • KSYM • KTSW • KTUH • KTXT • KUCI • KUGS • KUPS • KUWS • KVSC • KWCW • KWTF • KWUR • KWVA • KXCI • KXRN • KXSC • KXUA • KYRS • KZMU • KZSC • KZUU • NCPR • NVWR • SCAD • UMSL • WARY • WCNI • WCSF • WCXS • WDBM • WDWN • WEGL • WERA-LP • WERU-2 • WFWM • WGMU • WGSU • WHCL • WHRW • WHSN • WHUS • WICB • WIDB • WIPZ • WKNC • WLFC • WMBR • WMCX • WMSE • WMUA • WMUL • WMXM • WNCW • WORT • WQRR • WRFL • WRIR • WRRC • WRRG • WRSU • WRUV • WRUW • WSOE • WSOU • WSUM • WTCC • WUMD • WUNH • WUOG • WUSC • WVCW • WVIA • WVYC • WWSP • WWSU • WZBT • WZMB

TOUR HISTORY

COUNTRIES: US, CA, MX (5x), UK/EU (5x) (BE, CH, ENG, CZ, DE, ES, FR, IT, PT, SCT, HU, NL)

SUPPORTED: THE KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW • KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD • THE SONICS • OS MUTANTES • WOLF PARADE • DE LA SOUL • MYSTERY LIGHTS • LOS BITCHOS • LA WITCH • DIIV • KEVIN MORBY • BUILT TO SPILL • OBERHOFER • BLITZEN TRAPPER • PEARL CHARLES • RUBBLEBUCKET • CIRCA WAVES • FEVER THE GHOST • AVI BUFFALO • NIGHT BEATS • WHITE REAPER • GUANTANAMO BAYWATCH • NO AGE • LEE BAINS III & THE GLORY FIRES • NAKED GIANTS

PRESS

On the occasion of the release of their third album, Arboretum, Guy Keltner and Ian Cunningham let us explore their rich and lush universe. | Rolling Stone France (4 Stars)

[One of the] Latin artists bridging scenes across the Pacific Northwest | Bandcamp Daily

Joyful in its tight embrace of ‘70s rock | ALT CITIZEN

A potent dose of classic rock & roll soul | Under the Radar

Soaring rock and roll bangers infused with the spirit of “Just Dance”-era Bowie make Acid Tongue shows a freewheeling good time complete with thrashing, dance breaks, and rapturous sing-alongs. | Remezcla

Un sans-faute | Rock&folk (France) (4 Stars)

Stirs with a Strokes like indie romp that is pure stylish chaos, then jaunts into a glammy rock swagger with “Ordinary People” that marks a swaggering sound that rekindles The Lemon Twigs meets KISS. This band might wear its influences proudly, yet the albums nine tracks are about as legit a visit through rock’s most splendid errors via original tunes as there ever was. | Glide Magazine

[I]t’s like the band took a clear-yer-head weekend road trip to 1974—when you could get Bowie, Big Star and Bob Neuwirth albums cheaply if not easily—and came back to the 21st century to make [The Night We Broke Our Lease], which deploys plenty of tube-amp-and-guitar warmth in a gently casual way that prevents this coming off like a museum piece. | LA RECORD

A DIY punk ethos […] it’s nostalgic & modern at the same time. | NYLON

Everything is electricity, energy and telluric forces… Our opinion on the new Acid Tongue album, Arboretum | Rolling Stone France

One of the wildest duos on the West Coast | Rolling Stone France

‘Bullies’ In My Room Session | Rolling Stone France

‘Home’ In My Room Session | Rolling Stone France

How Sobriety and Mental Health Issues Shaped Acid Tongue’s New Album | KEXP Sound & Vision Podcast

No genre is safe from getting ‘licked up’ by the Tongue. | KEXP

Best Albums of 2021 | Seattle Times

Best Albums of 2021 | The Bulwark

Top 5 Local Albums of 2020 | Sonic Boom Records

30 Best Alt-Rock Songs of 2020 (“Bullies”) | RIFF Magazine

Good time rock & roll vibes [...] While the band is pushing the rock genre forward they’re also acutely aware of the past, combining classic rock sensabilities with the dynamicism of modern garage rock. | MXDWN

Sweltering and hazy-as-hell, Acid Tongue’s scorched indie-pop sounds plucked straight from a desert’s watering hole. That sense of nourishment threads throughout... | DIY

‘Follow The Witch’ is a real son-of-a-bitch of a track. …[Acid Tongue invokes] The Rolling Stones’ sympathetic Satan and all the irresistible power and destruction that follows in his wake. | ALT CITIZEN

In their new album, the band emerges from the soil, sprouting a fuzz-fueled, electric flowerbed of your most vivid rock and roll fantasies. | Hollywood Life

Danceable, poppy and oozes an almost effortless cool thanks to the string arrangements and guest vocalist Calvin Love's wistful croon | Punk Rock Theory

['If I Really Loved Her' is] a catchy, laidback ode to devotion that reminds us to hang on to the ones who’ll stand by us no matter what. | Paste Magazine

Blending watery strings and vocals that listen like readings from a journal, the band demonstrates both instrumental prowess and respect for their musical heritage as the sons of psychedelic forebears. Catchy to the core, 'If I Really Loved Her' is the perfect cut from the dreamlike, almost sci-fi masterpiece and is marked in bold for us this week. | All Things Go

‘If I Really Loved Her' is one of the group's smoothest tracks, truly encompassing their psychedelia as they serenade their listeners. | Indie Band Guru

[Acid Tongue's 'Babies' is] a soulful, stoney, honest approach to modern psychedelia. | Impose

I'm not sure the world deserves Acid Tongue, but we have them and won't give them back. | When You Motor Away

With explosive and groovy romps [...] contrasted by mellowed-down toe-tappers that make one feel as though they're floating down a lazy river, headphones in, surrounded by nothing but clear blue, the record takes listeners on a ride rife with detours, forks in the road, and U-turns. | PopWrapped

Soul-drenched … A timeless rock & roll sound with a DIY mentality | Psychedelic Baby

Seattle’s Acid Tongue is a fascinating combination of classic indie rock stylings and an unrelenting DIY spirit. This conjures images of the heyday of the 90s indie rock explosion [...] Acid Tongue delivers music that is both somehow highly sophisticated and instantly relatable, like reconnecting with old friends who have changed but still retain much of their old charm. | Jersey Beat

For anyone who enjoys guitar-driven pop rock, as well the poppy-er aspects of the Black Keys (with a less obvious blues rock influence) and the 2000s era indie feel of early entries in Kings of Leon discography, this album is absolutely worth your time, especially in a world becoming more dominated by electronic music where the “pop” and “rock” genres see less and less overlap. | DC Music Review

Acid Tongue embrace the California surf and skate scene by making fuzzy, laid-back music worthy of being in a state where weed is legal. | The Stranger

Woozy but never falling down, ‘Beautiful Disaster’ sounds like an escape but is eager to stick around. Luckily the hypnotic hooks (which would make The Cribs proud) aren’t going to be leaving your head anytime soon. | DORK

Acid Tongue sound like they spend every day of their lives sitting on the beach, getting stoned and bashing out rough chords on an acoustic guitar. | The Sound Board

I’ll follow these tripped out grooves wherever they take me. So far its only been weirdly wonderful places. | The Burning Ear

Like King Gizzard on a whole bunch of Ritalin, there's a wooziness to Acid Tongue's psych oddity that quells the madness. | DIY Magazine

['I Died Dreaming'] has a punchiness missing from most blissed-out slacker rock, it rounds off every hazy lick with a thumping retort. This balance is what has been missing from the sub-genre for some time. Someone willing to infiltrate the apathy of the sound whilst simultaneously juxtaposing it with a smash and grab of energy. | Far Out Magazine UK