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Premiere: VED – ‘The Embrace of the Oarfish’: a wondrous brew of repetitive psych

SWEDEN’S VED, the Malmöit five-piece who have thus far released three EPs and three albums, concoct a similarly wondrous brew of Middle Eastern, krautrock, and psychedelia to the Swedish bands…

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Say Psych: News: Hills announce Frid repress on 2 colour vinyl variants and new gatefold sleeve

One of the finest psych bands to come out of Sweden, Hills, have announced a special ltd edition repress of their third and last studio album Frid. The repress will be…

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Say Psych: Album Review: DJINN – DJINN

Neither inherently good nor evil, the DJINN have been heralded in Arab culture since the Pre-Islamic period, located somewhere on a spiritual plane between humanity and the realm of deities.…

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Say Psych: Playlist 25/2016

Well the year’s not over yet, but already the pre-release information for albums appearing next year is already coming fast and furiously. So while I’ve only just done this year’s…

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Say Psych: Premiere, Flöjttjola & Death 1 by Hills

I know that there are a lot of you out there who are just mad for Swedish band Hills. You (we) love the band’s amazing sound and a string of…

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Say Psych: Playlist 19/2016

Reviewing a couple of Swedish-related albums over the last week (Drakkar Nowhere and Centralstödet) reminded me of how many great bands have come from that country in the past. Here are fifteen…

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Say Psych: Playlist 18/2016

Back into the playlist groove after the summer, I’ve got round to doing some reviews…some ace albums linked below. Then there’s the usual mixture of the raw, the cooked, and…

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Say Psych: Photo Gallery, Eindhoven Psych Lab, 10-11 June 2016

Day One: Throw Down Bones, Hills, Camera, Temples Day Two: Statue, Black Valleys Meets OWOW, 10000 Russos, Radar Men from the Moon, Flamingods, Gnod, Follakzoid, Goat

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Say Psych: Album Review, Frid by Hills

Hills are one of my favourite bands, and the 2011 album ‘Master Sleeps’ is one of my most played. I love the coming together of dance rhythms with drone and…

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Psych Insight: Track: Milarepa by Hills, plus debut album reissue news

Hills are one of my favourite bands of recent times, a Swedish collective who only seem to emerge from time to time, but when they do they always seem to leave…

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