Psych
See: Magon releases new video for Aerodynamic
Following on from the much lauded ‘Change’ that came out in October, Magon has released a new single out – Aerodynamic, ahead of the the Paris based Israeli singer-songwriters forthcoming ‘Hour after Hour’ album, due out on January 29th, 2021. Mixing up psychedelia and garage, Magon floats through styles and time signatures, these deliciously gluey …
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 …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Janitors – Noisolation Sessions Vol. 1
Last week saw the joint release on Cardinal Fuzz and Little Cloud Records of the fifth album from Sweden’s finest purveyors of heavy drones, fuzzed nightmares and stökpsych, The Janitors. Noisolation Sessions Vol.1 is a testament of three months in disturbing times. In March 2020 The Janitors had their new Album written and studio time …
MEET: London based psychedelic-cumbia band Los Bitchos
THE WORLD is a gloomy place (albeit there has been a glimmer of hope with the recent US elections and some sound news of the vaccine as of writing this), along with the autumn weather truly kicking in, but either way, one of the finest bands on the planet, Los Bitchos, are here to brighten …
PREMIERE: Farmer Dave & The Wizards of the West – ‘Right Vibration’: Beachwood Sparks man right back in the psych saddle
FARMER DAVE SCHER may be better known to you from the string of excellent bands he’s both been in and collaborated with down the years. He was a member of brilliant West Coast country-psych outfit Beachwood Sparks, who took on Sade’s “By Your Side” and completely won (and actually chaps, while we’re here, could we …
Say Psych: Video: Errorr – Perfect Example
Errorr are a Berlin-based band three piece who primarily play noise- and punk-rock but incorporates a wide range of genres. They are led by Leonard Kaage who is known as the guitar player and producer of The Underground Youth and has also worked with many other bands such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Blue Angel Lounge, Tracy …
ALBUM REVIEW: Pet Grotesque brings the late summer nights with ‘Female Synth Player’
PET GROTESQUE is the solo project of Calum Armstrong, who can also be found in the excellent Tiña (who released their debut album, Positive Mental Health, last week). Channeling King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard in terms of work ethic, Calum Armstrong has just released another album within the space of just a week under …
NEWS: Kill Rock Stars sign Japanese garage-psychesters TEKE::TEKE – hear two tracks
RULE one: Japanese bands do brilliant, brilliant things with guitars: this is just fact. From the mind-blowing chaos of Melt-Banana to the heavy psych stylings of Acid Mothers Temple and Bo Ningen, down through the garage-rawk of Guitar Wolf and the dreamy, trippy-hippy psych of Ghost, new and deeper appreciations of how to wield and …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Spyrals – Same Old Line
Los Angeles based The Spyrals have this week released their fourth LP Same Old Line via Fuzz Club Records. Taking cues from The Velvet Underground, 13th Floor Elevators and The Stooges by way of Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters, the record sees the band carve out eight songs of raw, back-to-basics rock’n’roll that …
Say Psych: Album Review: Mugstar – Graft
Centripetal Force (North America) and Cardinal Fuzz (UK/Europe) last week released the latest LP from Mugstar, Graft, the follow up album to their much-lauded live collaboration with Can’s Damo Suzuki released earlier this year. Mugstar have been hurtling through the sonic multiverse since 2003 and have left an extensive discography in their wake. Early on, …