Psych Insight
Say Psych: Playlist 11/2016
I hadn’t heard any of the tracks on this week’s Psych Insight playlist a week ago, so it’s been brilliant to catch up with these. Not all of the songs here are new, although most are, but all of them remind me how much great stuff there is out there. Enjoy! Take Me …
Say Psych: Album Review, Inner Journey Out by Psychic Ills
This is Psychic Ills first release since ‘One More Time’, one of my favourite albums of its time and one that helped me cement my love of all things ‘psych’. It was an album that had a beautifully lugubrious approach, so laid back yet with some real bite too it. ‘FBI’, in particular is a …
Say Psych: Album Review, Observed in a Dream by Mayflower Madame
Mayflower Madame are a four piece from Norway, Oslo to be exact, who have been developing an interesting sound over the last few years. In these days where everything that drops into my in box seems to be some for of spurious excuse for psych(edelia) these guys are closer to the real deal than most. …
Say Psych: Album Review, 芒神 God of Silver Grass by 破地獄 Scattered Purgatory
This is such a beautiful album. I could leave it at that because in a sense that is all you need to know. It is an album that would not be out of place in a Zen garden, with all the notes seemingly placed quite exactly in order to create just the right sort of …
Say Psych: Playlist 10/2016
Tracks old and new on this week’s Psych Insight playlist, representing lots of different genre wishing what is often termed ‘psych’. Ultimately the terms don’t matter, just get with the music. Enjoy! Not Everyone by Os Noctambulos I really liked ‘Corsica Garden’, the previous album by Os Noctambulos (see review here), and now the …
Say Psych: Album Review, Failures by Khünnt
If you’re going to call yourself Khünnt then you are going to need to have a sound that somehow backs that up. In this case the band’s moniker acts as something of a gatekeeper for the Khünnt sonic experience. Basically if you are put off or offended by something called Khünnt, then you probably haven’t missed anything. If, …
Say Psych: Album Review, ‘Sweet Chariot’ by Earthling Society
The Earthling Society are one of those bands who really intrigue me. The music that they produce it more often than not beyond classification, and while on their website they claim the primary influences of 60s psychedelia and 70s bands such as Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Popol Vuh and Amon Duul 2, there is something more …
Say Psych: Playlist 9/2016
This weeks Psych Insight playlist is an all-Canada special! Ten tracks from ten great bands all producing great music over the last half century, with a definite nod to the current scene which appears to be in fine health. The music speaks for itself, but I thought I’d add a bit of atmosphere with a …
Say Psych: Album Review, Entranced Earth by The Myrrors
The Myrrors are one of those bands, and actually for me there are not many, whose albums I will happily buy without hearing first. They have behind them a series of releases which in many ways defies description and classification. For me this is because they layer so many different ideas and atmospheres into their music. …
Say Psych: Album Review, Psychic Lemon by Psychic Lemon
Hold the front page…this just in…Psychic Lemon formed a couple of years ago in Cambridge and, from what I can find out, have had a few tracks out and have been building a local following for themselves. Then, blammo, they appear as if from nowhere with a fully formed and with really good debut album …