Psych albums
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: 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 …
Album Review: White Denim – Stiff
White Denim are one of those kinds of bands that just make you want to drive insanely fast and punch the air with your fists. They make this kind of uptempo, good time rock and roll that is a little more caffeinated than your average fun time rock band. Another thing about White Denim is …
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 …
Say Psych: New Music, FOR NEPAL
Although the earthquake in Nepal has largely disappeared from our consciousness, the cleanup operation and reconstruction is continuing and life is still far from being back to normal. Thom Betteny of Sheffield’s Evil Hoodoo Records has spent some of that intervening time putting together a record in support of this very worthy course. Thom has put …
Say Psych: Album Review, Burning Up With… The Heads
I came fairly late to The Heads party. When I arrived I thought that all I was left with was to hoover up a few half empty cans and the dog-ends of some well-smoked spliffs. As I was getting more and more into the ‘psych’ scene The Heads were a band that I heard talked …
Say Psych: Album Review, Sunshower by Psychic Heat
Psychic Heat are a band who are new to me. A four piece from Lawrence, Kansas (USA); they are, with apologies, from a place that I’ve never heard of before either. Mapping the band’s music, however, takes me into more familiar territory. According to the band themselves they “draw…inspiration from the British neo-psych pop scene …
Say Psych: Album Review, Stellar Prophecy by Black Rainbows
I have only recently come across Italian three-piece Black Rainbows. The stoner rock band’s ‘Hawkdope’ album from last year was one that grabbed me immediately when I first heard it a month or so ago. So when I found out that the band had a new impending release I was all over it like a …