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ALBUM REVIEW: The WITCH – ‘Introduction’: cracking Zambian garage nugget unearthed
You thought every stone had been overturned in the quest for any last garage-punk nuggets of note? You’d be wrong. Get your white drainpipes and chelsea boots on for this cracking Zambian garage album from the early Seventies
Say Psych: Track Review: The Watchmakers – Clover
Manchester’s neo-psychedelic group The Watchmakers are back after a longer than planned hiatus with ‘Clover’. Having previously gained radio play and recognition from the likes of major radio networks like Xfm (now Radio X), invited to play a BBC Showcase where BBC 6 Music recommended them as ‘ones to watch’, music publications such as the NME and playing numerous festivals including Isle Of Wight, …
Say Psych: Track Review: The Vacant Lots – Into The Depths (Cold Cave Deep Speed Remix)
Brooklyn’s The Vacant Lots have released a Cold Cave remix of ‘Into The Depths’, originally lifted from their highly acclaimed third LP Interzone, which is getting its second pressing via Fuzz Club Records. Released last Summer and long sold-out, Interzone saw glowing praise from Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins (who played the band on their …
Say Psych: Track: The Lucid Dream – CHI-03
The Lucid Dream have this week announced the release of their fifth LP, The Deep End due out 2 April on Holy Are You Recordings. With the announcement, comes the release of lead single ‘CHI-03’; a track born out of listening to late 80s hip hop records on a loop before allowing the 303 to take on the co-lead vocal role, alongside the sampler. …
Say Psych: Track Review: Shame – Nigel Hitter
Shame have recently shared their new single ‘Nigel Hitter’, a track taken from their long-anticipated new album Drunk Tank Pink. Alongside, the band have shared a Maxim Kelly directed video which repurposes archival footage from old research centres on the development of children. Using deepfake technology, the babies start to lip sync along with the song, while the …
Say Psych: Track Review: Radio Days – I Got A Love
Radio Days are a powerpop trio hailing from Milan, Italy who have been on the scene since 2008, playing in their current line up since 2015. They are an ideal mix of Beatlesque melodies of the 60s and 70s punk energy; combining the sounds of early Elvis Costello, the Rubinoos’ vocal harmonies, Big Stars’ scratching …
Say Psych: Track: PEEL – Memory Loop
PEEL hail from Sydney and make inter-dimensional guitar music; they create sonic architecture built from elements of shoegaze, post-punk and psychedelia and have come out of the gates with all engines firing. ‘Memory Loop’ is their first single and offers a raw and potent four minutes of hypnotic, fuzzed-out pop. The keen eye may recognise PEEL members from Third …
Say Psych: Track: Night Beats – That’s All You Got
The Texas-born outfit Night Beats are today sharing a new single titled ‘That’s All You Got’, a collaboration between founding member Danny Lee Blackwell and Robert Levon Been of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. With a bunch of new material in the works, ‘That’s All You Got’ is Night Beats’ first outing since they recently announced …
Say Psych: Track: Nice Biscuit – Fem Chem
Australian psych quintet, Nice Biscuit are back with driving new single ‘Fem Chem’ taken from a new EP titled Create Simulate scheduled for release in January, 2021 via Believe Digital. Weaving playful guitar driven melodies with chanting harmonised vocals, ‘Feminine Chemical’ presents a critique of toxic masculinity in order to embrace a more open and …
TRACK: Psymon Spine – ‘Confusion’: glimmering psych-disco heralds February album
IF YOU’RE absolutely beloved of that glimmering, du-jour intersection where hazy, technicolour psych meets sweeping synths with a healthy dose of funk – y’know out there deep in there, where MGMT intersect with Tame Impala – then you really need to be letting a little of Psymon Spine’s louche groove into your world. The Brooklyn …