Say Psych: Album Review: Viagra Boys – Welfare Jazz
Viagra Boys’ Sebastian Murphy dreams about everyone hating his guts. A lot. “I kept having this recurring nightmare where my mom was crying and my friends were all pissed off at me,” he recalls, almost reverently. The band’s latest, Welfare Jazz out last week doesn’t bargain with the anxiety in that defeated feeling, but rather …
Say Psych: News: Stereolab announce Electrically Possessed [Switched On Volume 4]
Stereolab have announced the arrival of Electrically Possessed [Switched On Volume 4], the fourth addition to their Switched On series with single ‘Dimension M2’. This new volume will be released via Warp Records and Duophonic UHF Disks on 26 February. Following on from the first volume released in 1992, 1995’s Refried Ectoplasm, and 1998’s Aluminum Tunes, the long-awaited fourth installment spans 1999 – 2008 in …
Say Psych: Track Review: Blanck Mass – Starstuff
Blanck Mass, the project of musician Benjamin John Power, has this week released ‘Starstuff’, the first track from his new record In Ferneaux which will be released on Sacred Bones on 26 February. Following 2019’s album Animation Violence Mild, In Ferneaux explores pain in motion, building audio-spatial chambers of experience and memory. Using an archive of field recordings from a …
Say Psych: Track Review: Mush – Seven Trumpets
The BBC Radio 1 (Jack Saunders’ “Next Wave” artist) and 6 Music-tipped art-rock trio Mush have released their new single ‘Seven Trumpets’ this week which is from their upcoming second LP, Lines Redacted, which is out via Memphis Industries on 12 February. Whereas the band’s debut was very much a product of its time, something part-inspired by the political atmosphere of …
Say Psych: Premiere: REAVE – One More Night
REAVE is a newly emerged musical trio from Manchester & London. With influences such as Sylvan Esso, Johnny Marr and Depeche Mode they combine a wide range of styles from, but never limited to new wave, synth-pop and indie, their sound emits a fresh take on the best of the past. With huge drum sounds, …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Diagram – Reflections
Berlin-based musician Hákon Aðalsteinsson, originally hailing from Iceland, can be found fronting neo-psych outfit The Third Sound and gloomy alt-country troupe Gunman & The Holy Ghost, as well as being the live guitarist for The Brian Jonestown Massacre and Anton Newcombe’s ongoing collaborations with Tess Parks. His latest project, duo Diagram, are preparing for the …
Say Psych: Track Review: Badwan/Coxon – Boiling Point
Badwan / Coxon have announced details of the release of a 12” on Tough Love Records featuring 15-minutes of music over 2 tracks, ‘Boiling Point’ and ‘Promise Land’ set for release on 5 February 2021 as a limited edition 12”, which includes a very limited run of 100 copies with hand painted sleeves by Faris which are available …
Say Psych: Interview: Meet The Label – The Weird Beard
Neo-Psychedelia has become the fastest growing musical trend, and the genre that everyone who wants to be associated with. With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that it is people who make all of this possible and get the music out into the public domain in the first place. Say Psych plans to address …
Say Psych: Video: Viagra Boys – Creatures
When we last checked in on Viagra Boys we found Sebastian Murphy wreaking havoc on the town in a drunken stumble. And at the end of that ‘Ain’t Nice’ video, the first song from their upcoming Welfare Jazz album out 8 January, he passed out awaking in the 18th century surrounded by servants in powdered wigs. Now the …
Say Psych: Track Review: Radio Days – I Got A Love
Radio Days are a powerpop trio hailing from Milan, Italy who have been on the scene since 2008, playing in their current line up since 2015. They are an ideal mix of Beatlesque melodies of the 60s and 70s punk energy; combining the sounds of early Elvis Costello, the Rubinoos’ vocal harmonies, Big Stars’ scratching …