Psych
Album review: DJINN’s ‘Transmission’ commands an increasingly colourful palette
Transmission perfectly commands an increasingly colourful palette, an enriching conduit to what could be termed DJINN’s equally chasmic sound
Say Psych: Album Review: Tren Go! Soundsystem & Ornamental – Assessment
Tren Go! Sound System is a guitar, loop and fx driven one-man-band psychedelia. The steel driving man behind this locomotive is Pedro Pestana (10 000 Russos and Talea Jacta) who started this journey on train tracks back in 2006. Ornamental is the alter ego of Sidney Jaffe is producing and performing music since 2013. The …
Say Psych: Track Review: Cult of Dom Keller – Last King of Hell
Cult of Dom Keller have today announced their fifth album They Carried The Dead In A U.F.O. and shared the first single, ‘Last King of Hell’. Since 2007 the UK group have been leaving a trail of sonic fever dreams, dark psychedelia and experimentalism that beats with a heavy industrial heart. Talking about the track, …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Underground Youth – The Falling
The Underground Youth, a Manchester-born, Berlin-based group, led by Craig Dyer, release their tenth LP The Falling this week via Fuzz Club Records. The new album sees Craig and the band trade their acerbic post-punk melancholy for a more refined and stripped-back sound which enters the world of romantic, shadowy folk-noir. A marked departure from the …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Radio Days – Lose Control
‘Lose Control’ is the third single from Milan’s Radio Days forthcoming LP Rave On! due out on 21 May via Ammonia Records, and BSM is proud to present the premiere of their new video. The powerpop trio have been on the scene since 2008, playing in their current line up since 2015. They are an …
Track: ROY – ‘Where Did My Mind Go’: Toronto psychester invites you to his garage with some hazy excellence
BROTHERS and sisters: the time hath come to make a little more room in your psychedelic pop heart for a Canadian songsmith sure to seduce your Carnaby Street-lovin’ synapses; please, if you would, put your hands together for ROY. ROY is how Toronto psych scenester Patrick Lefler likes to get dressed for a night on …
Say Psych: Track Review: Veik – Political Apathy
French post-punk trio Veik have just released ‘Political Apathy’, the second single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album, Surrounding Structures, due out 30 April on Fuzz Club Records. Centred around vintage analogue synths and abrasive instrumentation, the band’s sound is rooted in the experimentalism of Krautrock and No Wave. New single ‘Political Apathy’, …
Say Psych: Album Review: Urdog – Long Shadows 2003-2006
Long Shadows is a retrospective of Urdog, the work of a mercurial band whose music may have been summoned from fog and ghosts yet possesses considerable staying power beyond their brief time on the planet. “We were influenced by the horror of late-capitalism in general every day” says drummer and vocalist Erin Rosenthal, who first …
See: The video for the riffin’ psych garage swirl of TEKE::TEKE’s ‘Yoru Ni’
MONTREAL’S adopted TEKE:TEKE, the Japanese psych-prog-garage septet who are busy doing all the great things Japanese bands do to trippy guitar music, have released another little cracker ahead of their early May debut for Kill Rock Stars. It’s called “Yoru Ni” and it’s a delicious swirl of back-from-the-grave surf twang, trilling flutes, riffs, cooing vocals, …
Track: Matt Berry releases psychedelic gem ‘Abroad’ alongside album details
Matt Berry has celebrated a decade being signed with groundbreaking, eclectic record label Acid Jazz, as well as marking his subsequent album, via his new single ‘Abroad’. The ever-prolific musician/actor released his highly acclaimed ‘Phantom Birds’ album just last year – arguably his greatest yet – and the follow-up will be released later this year. …