Album Reviews
Say Psych: Album Review: Vive la Void – Vive la Void
Vive la Void is the solo project of Sanae Yamada, co-founder and keyboard player of Moon Duo. Yamada wrote and recorded the self-titled debut LP over a two-year period, during windows of downtime in Moon Duo’s substantial touring and recording schedule. The album will be released on Sacred Bones Records on 4th May. The seven …
Say Psych: Album Review: Father Sky Mother Earth – Father Sky Mother Earth
German drone duo Father Sky Mother Earth have previously released only two records since 2016. That is set to change with the release of the re-recorded offering through Dirty Filthy Records on limited edition white vinyl and download on 27th April. When asked about the release, the duo said “after the feedback on our first …
Album Review: MESSA – Feast For Water
Italians Messa have a striking sound, a kind of doom rock, which is occasionally blissed out with with low key jazz arrangements and soaring bluesy solos. FEAST FOR WATER is a tad more accessible than their equally striking debut from 2016, Belfry. Belfry was a touch more metallic and rawer. Feast For Water sounds like …
Album Review : Rival Console’s ‘Persona’
Ryan Lee West’s music as Rival Consoles feels far more lived in and worn than many of his producing peers. He makes electronic music that sounds and feels organic. Past records like Howl, Kid Velo, and Night Melody evoked a truly emotional heft, while still drawing you into sultry grooves and heady electronic rhythms. There …
Album Review : Moon Loves Honey’s ‘You Drift Away From Me’
As soon as you hit play on Moon Loves Honey’s debut record You Drift Away From Me there is an instant tilt in the atmosphere. The world’s axis seems to turn slightly, causing a slight dizziness. A woozy high envelopes your head and all seems mildly good once again in the world, even if for …
Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned
Pinned is the fifth studio offering from Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers who in their ten year history have garnered a reputation for releasing unique records and putting on mesmerising live performances. They have had to make some big decisions in recent years, they were in search of a new drummer who arrived in …
Album Review: The Amazing – In Transit
‘In Transit’, the newly released album by Swedish band, ‘The Amazing’ is a unique blend of shoegaze/dream-pop that at times diverts into the lush indie/folk vibes of bands like Belle and Sebastian or Sufjan Stevens. This is a remarkable piece of work – eleven layered, dreamy and evocative songs that somehow manage to capture within …
Album Review: Perpetual Warfare – Earthliens
I’m not sure what is going on down in Columbia, but as far as Thrash Metal is concerned, it is clear that the country has some of the best underground bands on the planet! – Fire, Psycho Mania, Subversion, Athor, Agony…the list is endless! And in 2018, rising out of Bogota D.C like a behemoth …
Album Review: North Sea Navigator – The Memory Clears the Space for What’s Needed
Former Gravenhurst sideman Paul Nash has been trading under the name North Sea Navigator for a while now, expanding the line up from himself to a three piece and then to a four piece band recently, but its his solo eponymous album for Felt that is getting its commercial release, titled ‘The Memory Clears the …
Album Review: Josh Rouse – Love in the modern age
Seems Josh Rouse isn’t one for staying still, with the follow up to 2015’s The Embers of Time promising that he has embraced the likes of The Blue Nile, The Style Council and Prefab Sprout, rather than the indie/americana of his previous work. As it turns out, Rouse makes good on his promises for the …