Album Reviews
Say Psych: Album Review: The Myrrors – Fuzz Club Session
Rumbling out of the humid, mountainous plains of Tucson, Arizona comes The Myrrors, something of a singular entity in the exploratory psychedelic underground. For over a decade their self-professed “Sonoran trance music” has been inducing states of bewildered paralysis on audiences across the world – when the band are left to their own devices even …
Say Psych: Album Review: Gulp – All Good Wishes
Gulp are on a journey, a state of perpetual transition. The band make mini Kraut-pop epics, informed equally by the sun flares of the Californian desert and the drizzle of pure, sweet Scottish rain and northern light. Debut LP Season Sun was a home-grown delight, a ramshackle, endlessly inventive selection of dreamy psychedelic nuggets to watch …
New Music – Jonny Drop – The Only Sound
Jonny’s been busy since his debut LP ‘Sub Plot’ in 2016. As well as being a drummer for Andrew Ashong, The Bongolian and Connie Constance, he’s also had his hands full working with his band ‘The Expansions’, so it’s pretty impressive that he’s found time in his schedule to produce a stunning new solo work …
Album Review: Battery Operated Orchestra – Snare
Battery Operated Orchestra might hail from Brighton but, in a previous incarnation as Katsen, they emerged on Thee Sheffield Phonographic Corporation. Which seemed very appropriate even then given the quality of their Kraftwerk-inspired synthpop, which would never have been out of place in the Steel City at any time over the last 30-odd years. Now …
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 …
New Music – Soothsayers – Tradition
Anyone up for a bit of Reggae Soul Funk Afrobeat dub? well you’ve come to the right place. Brixton’s hometown heroes Soothsayers are back with their seventh studio album ‘Tradition’. Exploring the concept of Tradition throughout the LP, vocalist/ trumpet player Robin Hopcraft explains “the title track deals with the question of handling tradition, when on …
Album Review – Uji – Alborada
Uji is the solo project of Luis Maurette, who is one half of the electronic pioneering duo ‘Lulacruza‘. His Debut LP entitled ‘Alborada is a reflection of his experiences in both Latin America and Afro-Latin diasporas. The music uses a blend of field recordings collected by Uji over the many years traveling the globe while …
Album Review: Soft Science – Maps
Soft Science warned us with their first two double A singles from ‘Maps’ that something very special was on its way and, in ‘Maps’, something special has been delivered. Hailing from sunny California, Soft Science have gifted an album rooted to some extent in a very British shoegaze cloak that is yet somehow imbued with …
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 …