Say Psych: Live Review: Bristol Psych Fest – 07.07.2018
It’s an honour to have made the journey down to Bristol Psych Fest V, and with the enviable line up I’m certain many others will have followed suit. The event split across three venues; SWX, The Lanes and Rough Trade takes off at full throttle as soon as the doors open. The first band I …
Say Psych: Album Review: Material Girls – Leather
Material Girls are a sextet from Atlanta who only come out at night. They indulge in glam and goth, whilst maintaining a percussive new wave edge on their new album Leather which was released last Friday on EXAG Records. It’s an interesting combination, but it comes naturally for these gutter dwelling creatures who cut their …
Say Psych: Live Review: Déjà Vega & The Goa Express @ The Golden Lion, Todmorden 06.07.2018
The Golden Lion, set in the quaint tranquillity of Todmorden has garnered a reputation as being one of the finest underground gig venues in the country and attracts the most enviable of names. Tonight there are two local bands taking to the hallowed stage to showcase that it is not just the big names who …
Say Psych: Album Review: Lumerians – Call of the Void
Oakland outfit Lumerians are a prodigious force in the extra-terrestrial realms of experimental rock music. Since forming in San Francisco back in 2006, the band have traversed their way through multiple different genres – offering mind-bending adventures into everything from space-rock, kraut and noise to zamrock, free jazz, drone and dub. Drawing from a range …
Say Psych: Live Review: Future Sounds @ The White Hotel, Salford 23.06.2018
Something a little bit special is taking place at Salford’s The White Hotel today, with a line up humbly called Future Sounds hosted by Manchester promoters Strange Days. I arrive in time to catch Meggie Brown, a London four piece who channel a lo-fi sound blended with shoegaze and psychedelic vibes. The motley looking quartet …
Say Psych: News: The Holydrug Couple announce new album Hyper Super Mega
Chilean duo The Holydrug Couple have announced details of their new album Hyper Super Mega for release on 14th September through Sacred Bones Records, as well as a November tour of the UK and Europe. It was 10 years ago, in a house on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, that Ives Sepúlveda Minho and Manuel …
Say Psych: Album Review: Flowers Must Die – Där Bloomor Dör
Flowers Must Die have released their fifth album, Där Bloomor Dör, is all about life and death, birth and rebirth. The double album whose title translates as Where Flowers Die, marks the end of both the record label rev/vega rec. who released the band’s first three albums and the first phase of the band’s career, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Lay Llamas – Thuban
Four years after the release of debut Østro, Lay Llamas return with their second offering Thuban, released on Rocket Recordings. Dwelling in the night sky of the Northern hemisphere, Thuban (named after the Arabic for snake also known as Alpha Draconis, and sometimes as the ‘dragon’s tail’) was the star closest to the North Pole …
Track Review: Saltwater Sun – Hot Mess
Reading’s guitar maestros Saltwater Sun share exhilarating new track ‘Hot Mess’, providing another example of their limitless potential and firmly re-positioning the quintet at the heart of the indie landscape. Having returned with the tenacious ‘The Wire’ earlier this year, attracting widespread press coverage and hitting the BBC Radio 1/Radio X airwaves (Huw Stephens, John …
Say Psych: Track: Gulp – I Dream of Your Song
Gulp, formed by Super Furry Animals’ Guto Pryce, Lindsey Leven and their long standing guitarist Gid Goundrey, have announced their new album All Good Wishes, which is schedules for release on the 3rd August via E.L.K Records. Gulp are on a journey, a state of perpetual transition. The band make mini Kraut-pop epics, informed equally by the sun flares …