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Say Psych: Album Review: The Asteroid No. 4 – Northern Songs
Psychedelic rock legends The Asteroid No.4 will release their new album Northern Songs this Friday through a partnership with UK-based Cardinal Fuzz Records and Portland’s Little Cloud Records. Stalwarts of the modern ‘psych’ genre, they are known for their prolific discography of reverb-drenched recordings and liquid-projected live performances. With a sound all their own and neo-psychedelic / shoegaze leanings, they are often compared to acts …
Say Psych: Album Review: Bo Ningen – Sudden Fictions
Meaning ‘Stick Man’ in Japanese, Bo Ningen are a London-based four-piece alternative rock band. Though they come from Gunma, Tajimi, Nishinomiya, and Tokyo in Japan, they coalesced in London. Two met one another at a gig in 2006 and first formed Bo Ningen as a duo, later joined by the other two members. With three studio …
Say Psych: Album Review: Kooba Tercu – Proto Tekno
Arriving via a triangulation of Athens, Crete and London, yet existing at a psychic intersection between the ruins of crumbling infrastructure and an intimidating future dystopia Kooba Tercu have seen fit to take arms as only they see fit. This week they unleash their latest offering Proto Tekno on the world, via Rocket Recordings. Led …
Say Psych: Album Review: Rhys Bloodjoy – Human.Pattern. Repeat
Rhys Bloodjoy last week released his long awaited debut LP Human.Pattern.Repeat on Sister9 Recordings in the form of a free download and a full length video that accompanies the album, making it a visual as well as aural offering. Dubbed as a one-man noise machine, using sophisticated loops, echo drenched harmonies and reverb-soaked melodies to …
Say Psych: Album Review: Sei Still – Sei Still
Though their taut, driving motoric music might scream of 70’s West Germany, Sei Still are, in from Mexico City. Their machine-like sonic experimentations emerging not out acid-fuelled jam sessions in some underground communal space tucked away in this or that German city but, instead, three friends taking a random trip to desolate Mexican woodland to …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Noise Figures – Telepath
It’s been two and a half years since The Noise Figures released Aphelion, and their absence has been noted. This week they are back with their third LP Telepath, released on Inner Ear Records. Inspired by the theory of spiritualism and influenced by personal experiences, Telepath is in essence a concept album with intense attention …
See Psycht: Album Review, Vol. II by Cholo Visceral
Cholo Visceral are a six-piece psych/ prog rock band from Lima, Peru. The band have been through a number of personnel changes since originally formed as a duo in 2011, becoming a seven-piece outfit to record their first, self-titled, album which was released on CD in 2013 (Toxiko Producciones – Peru), and on vinyl in …