Album Reviews
Say Psych: Album Review: Pretty Lightning – Jangle Bowls
German duo Pretty Lightning have just released their fourth LP Jangle Bowls via London-based label Fuzz Club Records. For over a decade, the duo comprising Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas have been busy dealing in swampy, fuzzed-out delta blues with a penchant for strung-out psychedelic drones and on their latest effort, picking up where 2017’s …
ALBUM REVIEW: ONO – RED SUMMER
Before Saul Williams graced us with his imprints of experimental hip hop, Chicago’s ONO were creating divergent works that drew from both industrial music and gospel. The comparisons between the two are very much conscientious – both pushed the envelope for their respective genres, discussing themes about race and what it means to be a …
Say Psych: Album Review: OCH – II
OCH, Swedish for ‘and’, recently released their first LP courtesy of Rocket Recordings. This trio, of whom little is known other than a kinship to their label mates Flowers Must Die,have created a collection of beguiling soundscapes and audial epiphanies that can’t help but summon up the freewheeling ‘70s spirit, the small hours head space …
Album: KYTES – Good Luck
Munich based quartet KYTES are set to run on an upward trajectory in 2020, with new album ‘Good Luck’ the follow up to “Heads & Tales” released back in 2016. They seem have taken a more direct approach to bringing in new listeners to their Indie-Electronic-Pop, and this full length smacks of new horizons, although the core …
Album Review: Dave + Sam – No Shade
Pushing and prodding at the edges of House Music, Dave + Sam, aka vocalist Dave Giles II and producer Sam O.B., have always been thought of as mavericks. They’ve played on that, extended that reputation even with their new album No Shade, out on the Classic Music Company this coming Friday (27th March) digitally, having …
Album Review: Roger Eno and Brian Eno – Mixing Colours
Brian is unarguably the better known of the Eno brothers, mainly for his metamorphosis from priapic glam-peacock synth boffin to visionary producer and ambient music pioneer. Roger though has discreetly carved out a career as a creator of instrumental music with an impressive back-catalogue of over thirty albums. This album isn’t the first time the …
Album Review: The Orb – Abolition of the Royal Familia
When George Harrison wrote ‘It’s All Too Much’ after encounters with LSD, he was voicing that feeling of overwhelming-ness the drug induced in him. That same feeling would later be experienced by late 80s/early 90s ravers, and led to Alex Paterson inadvertently inventing the “chill-out room” to sooth their melting heads. One album that greatly …
Album Review: Five Finger Death Punch – F8
It’s another raucous offering in the form of ‘F8′, the eighth studio album from Five Finger Death Punch. Released on 28th February 2020 on new label Better Noise, this collection of tracks is one that almost never came to be; from well-publicised personal issues, member changes (in the form of new drummer Charlie Engen taking …
ALBUM: Pavey Ark – Close Your Eyes and Think of Nothing
You might not have heard of Pavey Ark, an alternative-folk band from Hull, but on the basis of their gorgeous and delightfully soothing debut album, “Close Your Eyes and Think of Nothing”, that will soon be changing. The band formed in 2016 and are fronted by singer and songwriter Neil Thomas and accompanied by a …
Say Psych: Album Review: Lastryko – Tętno Pulsu
Hailing from the Three city area, a coastal metropolis in the north of Poland comprising of the cities Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot; Lastryko can be placed somewhere between psychedelic, post rock and krautrock. Exuding fluid grooves with an experimental touch, Tętno Pulsu is a collection of selected pieces recorded during an improvised two-day studio session …