Album Reviews
Say Psych: Album Review: Fumaça Preta – Pepas
Fumaça Preta are back with their long awaited third album, Pepas which has been released on Bristol’s Stolen Body Records. They bring together elements of tropicalia, psychedelics, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics and numerous African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. The band started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer …
Album Review: Nick Waterhouse – Nick Waterhouse
In my 25 years plus as a music obsessive, one of the things that has become apparent to me is that sometimes you just need to hear a certain album or artist at a certain time for them to make sense to you. If you’d played me a Nick Waterhouse album five years ago, chances …
Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Fuzz Club Session
For over a decade Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers have been dealing in pure sonic destruction. Famously lauded as the loudest band in NYC, their thunderous noise-rock has seen them pick up a cult following and shatter many unsuspecting eardrums across the globe. With no release or live show like the last, APTBS have continually twisted their malevolent sonic …
Say Psych: Album Review: TAU – TAU and The Drones of Praise
TAU are back with their new LP TAU and The Drones of Praise which was released last week. It follows on from 2016’s debut TAU TAU TAU which was released on Fuzz Club Records. TAU are steered by Sean Mulrooney but have an open-door policy for recording which has resulted in the capturing of some of …
Say Psych: Album Review: Nero Kane – Love in a Dying World
Nero Kane is the nickname of Marco Mezzadri, a songwriter and musician already known in the Italian underground scene and aiming to make a mark on the rest of the world with his debut LP Love in a Dying World. Previously, Kane released Lust Soul under the name NERO in 2016 but has changed tacts …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Janitors – Fuzz Club Session
Conjuring heavy drones and sinister garage-psych freak-outs, Stockholm outfit The Janitors have been a formidable presence on the European underground since they formed way back in 2004. Channelling the free-wheeling spirit of Hawkwind with equal smatterings of Sabbath and Spacemen 3, the band are masters of taking hold of a gnarly fuzzed-out groove and beating …
Album Review: Disturbed – Evolution
The one thing that is common among hard rock / heavy metal acts throughout the genre’s evolution is just how devoted their fans are. It doesn’t matter if you have followed Led Zeppelin since the late 60s, or were a denim and leather clad Iron Maiden fan of the 80s, or a Nine Inch Nails …
Say Psych: Album Review: Ouzo Bazooka – Transporter
Ouzo Bazooka, the undisputed champions of the middle eastern psych rock scene return with Transporter, their third album to date which has been released on Stolen Body Records today. After 2 years trotting the globe and playing over 150 live shows they returned to the studio a tight knot radiating with ideas and inspiration to create what …
Not Forgotten: Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bayou Country
American rock music was in an interesting place in the late 60s, with the psychedelic sounds of the West Coast jam bands, a burgeoning singer-songwriter movement, arty outsider rock courtesy of the likes of The Velvet Underground and The Silver Apples, as well as a roots rock movement that had been spearheaded by The Band. …
Say Psych: Album Review: NONN – XVII
Back in May last year Sweden’s Christian Eldefors released his debut album as NONN, a stark collection of minimalistic post-punk that marked him as one of the most exciting outputs in the dark Scandinavian scene. After touring the record across Europe and recruiting a full band, the project is back with its second album, XVII, …