Psych-folk
PREMIERE: See the video for Arch Garrison’s ‘Open My Eye’: warm psych-country track trails tomorrow’s LP; live stream news
ARCH GARRISON, the ‘other’ project of North Sea Radio Orchestra’s Craig Fortnam, have a rather lovely album of pastoral psych-folk, The Bitter Lay, out tomorrow on Believer’s Roast. It’s an album steeped in the landscape of the chalk downs; of spindle-whorls turned up by the plough, of seemingly endless old drove roads cresting the ridges; …
MEET: Psych-folkster Jeremy Tuplin talks surrealism, lockdown and Italy
JEREMY TUPLIN is a London-based singer-songwriter who, after a clutch of self-released EPs, first hoved into the wider collective psychedelic-folk eye on the back of last year’s whimsical, introspective and occasionally wonderfully absurdist Pink Mirror long player. Last week he released Violet Waves, a second LP, on which he’s schemed to turn it up a …
ALBUM REVIEW: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Violet Waves’: velvety psych-folk for the discerning gent about town
HUSH up at the back there. Yes, I know you have a deep ennui at the way this virus-laden summer is developing. It’s not great, I agree. And on top of it all, we even suffered Glastonbury weather through June. No, we can’t go get ice cream. We still have music. Glorious, bewitching, mind-expanding music. …
SEE: Jeremy Tuplin – ‘Back From the Dead’: Ziggyesque glam-psych call to live here, now
IT COMES grooving in on an early glam kinda riff, that hook-laden chug you got in Bowie’s “Suffragette City”, bluesy and low-slung, propelling along on a fuzz guitar. Jeremy himself – for tis him; Jeremy Tuplin, suave psych-folkster who’s come up to town the better to ready himself for the launch of his new album, …
SEE: the fine English psych whimsy of Jeremy Tuplin’s ‘Space Folk’
“I BELIEVE in magic / space magic … put on your unicorn jacket, covered in bat ships.”. So exhorts Somerset’s Jeremy Tuplin in the opening lines of his current single, “Space Magic”. So whoah: where are we, exactly, now … ground control? As with the lyrics, the video for the song (which you can watch …
Album Review: House and Land – Across the Field
It’s always this way for me, with music like this. Everything about it evokes the country; but not the country seen from far away of slow rolling slopes, soft meadows, trees whose green is bright and joyful seen from above and outside. Not this country. This is the country up close. The grass is stone-ridden …
Album Review : Language of Shapes :: Mother Mountain
Language of Shapes inhabit a musical world all their own. Not that they don’t allow certain musical influences to seep into that world and show themselves now and then, but for the most part LoS score their wonderful little universe all their own. Their self-titled debut from 2012 showed a band brimming and bursting with …