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Album Review: Oh crap! There’s a new Evil Blizzard album

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Album Review: GNOD – La Mort Du Sens

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Album review: TEKE::TEKE – ‘Shirushi’: a deliciously wonky, delectably trippy psych debut

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The new single from Canadian band The Besnard Lakes is nothing short of magnificent. It has all the euphoria and pulse-racing joy you find in the works of bands like Sigur Ros, with Beach Boys/The Mamas and the Papas harmonies and a dream-like psychedelic shimmer reminiscent of The Verve or The Cocteau Twins. According to …

HAPPY HEL-OWEEN! Never a band to rest on their laurels, Helicon have been busy bastards during lockdown despite having UK and European tours cancelled and no live gigs to play. BSM are delighted to premiere their Halloween themed video for latest single ‘Bardo Thodol’ from the LP This Can Only Lead To Chaos, released in Jan 2020 on Fuzz …

New England noiseniks’ full-length return after a six-year absence is filthy, trippy and even, at points, damn pretty. Righteous and cathartic, be glad they’re back

Photo credit Sam Joyce  South London based trio Fuzz Lightyear are set to release their debut EP ‘Fuzz II’ on 23rd October. Influenced by shoegaze, lo-fi and psych the band were formed in 2019 and recorded the EP in a weekend in Peckham at the end of last year. A rumbling start from first track …

In more ways than one Mdou Moctar has come along way since 2008, when his raw emotional guitar music first began to spread beyond Niger across west Africa via the DIY network of traded cellphone memory cards. Picked up by Chris Kirkley of Sahel Sounds who sent Mdou a much needed left handed Strat, then …

The music of Alex Maas has always mesmerised. Now, on his soul-baring solo debut Luca, the Texan and Black Angel’s singer journey is taking an equally hypnotic detour along the wild trails of his indigenous homestead. Driven by the force of nature, each phase of life is celebrated through songs of love, hope, human connection …

Reykjavík maverick Henrik Björnsson recently released Good Sick Fun, his eleventh album under the Singapore Sling project via Fuzz Club Records. Inspired by goth-rock, dub and big-band jazz on top of the usual fuzzed-out rock’n’roll touchstones that are seared into Henrik’s work, the latest Singapore Sling full-length is as perversely hedonistic as they come – …

RECENTLY signed to FatCat Records, France’s The Psychotic Monks have shared “Closure” ahead of the release of their second album, Private Meaning First, set for release via the Brighton based label.  A visceral racket of gothic-stained psychedelia meets cacophonous post-punk, The Psychotic Monks whirl up a distorted racket that’s like a cauldron of Girl Band …

South London based trio Holy Springs have shared their new EP – Camera recorded in a weekend in Peckham at the end of last year. Influenced by shoegaze, lo-fi and psych, all of which you can hear over the 4 tracks on this EP. Opener, ‘What I’m Supposed To Do’ has a nice slowed down …

Tangerine Dream are one of the true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, and the albums they recorded for Virgin Records between 1980 and 1983 remain classics of the genre.   Tangerine Dream’s classic recordings for Virgin made between 1980 and 1983 are to be released in Purple Twilight – The Virgin recordings 1980 – …