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Track: Dr Joy – ‘Signed, The Body Electric’: a meeting of Toronto minds spills out in psych technicolour
DR JOY is a meeting of minds on the vivacious Toronto psych scene, comin’ atcha with a dose of technicolour sonic blur to administer aurally in their debut single, “Signed – The Body Electric”, out this very morn. The band is a fusion of musical seeker, initially born out of friendship and hanging out, exchanging …
Say Psych: Track Review: Peacock Method – I Don’t Mind
Formed in Manchester during the bleak pandemic period & foreseeing the inevitable nightlife renaissance Peacock Method fuse a passion for colourful indie disco mellow gothic styles & funky synth tones that warrant either a jive or an atmosphere. They recently released their debut single ‘I Don’t Mind’ and it has taken everyone by storm. With …
Say Psych: Track Review: The Third Sound – Your Love is Evol
The Third Sound have recently released their new single ‘Your Love Is Evol’ and announced their fifth album, First Light, set for release 27 August via Fuzz Club Records. Led by The Brian Jonestown Massacre guitarist, the Icelandic musician Hákon Aðalsteinsson, The Third Sound are a Berlin-based band that deal in a hypnotic blend of …
Say Psych: Track Review: The Gluts – Eat Acid See God
‘Eat Acid See God’ is the new single from Italy’s finest psychedelic punks The Gluts. It is an early taste of the Milan-based band’s fourth album which they have recently finished recording with producer Bob De Wit (A Place To Bury Strangers, White Hills, The Sonics, Gnod). Not yet announced but pencilled in for release …
News: The Limiñanas and Laurent Garnier unveil details of new album and share ‘Que Calor’
FRENCH psych purveyors The Limiñanas and producer and DJ Laurent Garnier are set to release a collaborative album entitled Pelicula, splicing the trio’s affections for psychedelia with their equal fondness for cinema. Anton Newcombe was also key in the cementing of their friendship and musical partnership. Laurent worked alongside the trio of musical forces that …
Track: Cloud of I – ‘Sail Away’: gliding West Coast-style psych from Tel Aviv – a 12″ EP follows in July
COULD this be the year we see a real breakout of excellent, psychedelic music from Israel? The year’s already been graced by Tamar Aphek’s fiery debut album for Kill Rock Stars, All Bets Are Off, in which Tamar and her power trio really kicked out the jams (it may be one of those albums that’s …
Track: Ishmael Ensemble debut ‘Wax Werk’ ahead of expansive new album ‘Visions of Light’.
Bristol experimental jazz collective Ishmael Ensemble debut their expansive new album Visions of Light. The follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2019 debut A State of Flow, garnered the band much deserve praise from the likes of The Guardian, Mojo, The Wire and select presenters across BBC 6Music. Their sophomore record is a clear shift in direction with a focus on expanding what the …
Track: Matt Berry – ‘Summer Sun’: barnstorming and exuberant
THE EVER-prolific Matt Berry has shared another track from his upcoming album, The Blue Elephant. Berry’s latest is not only, as ever, an elaborate and seemingly seamless stretching of his artistic development but also a significant milestone in his Acid Jazz Records career: the record marks his tenth year with the label, and promises to …
See: Sunglasses For Jaws – ‘What Does It Look Like?’: enter the swinging, funky world of Frank and disappear through his mirror
WHILST, in other, less trippy lives, being a perfectly tessellated and readymade rhythm section for acts including Sinead O’Brien, Geowulf, Nick Waterhouse et al, bassist David Bardon and drummer Oscar Robertson have also began dreaming up a more hallucinatory life as Sunglasses for Jaws, under which disguise they’ve been quietly active on the London psych scene …
Say Psych: Video: Evolfo – Give Me Time
Brooklyn based psych rock septet Evolfo have shared their new single ‘Give Me Time’ taken from their sophomore full-length, Site Out Of Mind, to be released 18 June via Royal Potato Family. Expanding on the usual psych rock cocktail of phasers, fuzz, and echo, Evolfo blends in an array of less typical tones and textures such as …