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Say Psych: Track: FLING – Extra Special
Bradford’s resident psychedelic rockers FLING share their latest unique offering ‘Extra Special’ which is jammed full with irresistible melodies, funky guitar lines whilst oozing charisma. Known for their wildly eccentric live shows, the burgeoning quintet have already built up quite the following, with their playful personalities seeing them well-received on the festival circuit so far …
Say Psych: Track: Menace Beach – Black Rainbow Sound
Leeds-based Menace Beach return with news of their third album Black Rainbow Sound, which is set for release on 31st August on Memphis Industries. The new album is the band’s first new material since early 2017’s Lemon Memory, and after a self-imposed break from tour duties, the album exhibits a profound shift in their sound, whilst still mainlining the blasts of …
Say Psych: Video: Black Lizard – Black Shadow
Earlier this year Helsinki psych-rockers Black Lizard unleashed their third full-length in a now decade-long career. Celebration Of A New Dawn was released on Fuzz Club Records and saw the four-piece deal in a spectral garage-psych sound that calls on the scuzzy snarl of the finest Nuggets cuts and the swirling, neo-psychedelic march of the …
New Music : Cajsa Siik’s ‘Low Light Key Sessions’ EP
Scandinavian singer/songwriter Cajsa Siik has returned with a new EP called Low Light Key Sessions, and it’s a decidedly quieter, more introspective collection of songs. Compared to her previous releases, 2017s Domino and 2014s Contra, Low Light Key Sessions feels like a beautifully sentimental journey, albeit a short one. At just five tracks, Sessions gets …
Track: Everything by Electricity – Place to Call My Own
The gorgeous, thick-layered textures of Everything by Electricity‘s new single ‘Place To Call My Own’ is synth pop at its most alluring: a steady pulse, a superglue-melody and an addictive, bitter-sweet taste. While recalling bands such as New Order and M83, the song has an unconventional arrangement that catches you off guard: a percussive beginning …
EP Review: Jenny Hval – The Long Sleep
Popular music’s relationship to Art is complicated, at least as far as the term applies to music which people actually want to listen to. Numerous genres, from Punk to Pop to Thrash, have viewed the term with, at best, suspicion, probably because the categorisation of certain music as ‘art’ is as likely to signify pretention …
New Music : Declan O’Donovan’s “Hank”
In the spirit of Harry Nilsson, Three Dog Night, and Randy Newman comes the infectious, funky, and piano-led track “Hank” from singer/songwriter Declan O’Donovan. Listen to the track below, and be prepared for moving and grooving. About the track: Loosely based on an urban legend about a promiscuous Hank Williams and woven into a …
Say Psych: Video: Las Cobras – Al Más Allá
In Canelones, a small city in the south of Uruguay exists Las Cobras – a duo whose mystical psychotropic adventures have seen them, despite their very short existence, become a thing of wonder in the exploratory South American underground, and much further afield. Last year, Las Cobras – comprised of Sofïa Aguerre and Leandro Rebellato – emerged …
Say Psych: Video: The Soft Moon – Like A Father
Following the release of his latest album Criminal earlier this year via Sacred Bones, The Soft Moon, aka Luis Vasquez, has shared a haunting new music video for ‘Like A Father’ as as well as confirming an extensive touring schedule. Speaking about the track, Vasquez explains “’Like a Father’ is the result of a life long internalization …
Track: A. Wesley Chung – Restless
A. Wesley Chung hails from California but has made his home in Glasgow. He has just released his debut album, ‘Neon Coast’ as a solo artist on 18th May via Glasgow’s own LP Records. ‘Neon Coast’ is an homage to the US West Coast, where Chung grew up, and the three most pronounced emotions that …