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Interview: 10 000 Russos on new release ‘Kompromat’
By Beatriz Fontez ‘Kompromat’, the most recently released record by 10 000 Russos, delivers us a kind of industrialized British nastiness and the minimalist aspects of krautrock, features that came in swollen and stretched in this album, without shying away from the dab of psychedelic outlines which is gilded in the band’s name. Speaking of …
Track: Luna Li – Trying
Toronto’s talented singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Luna Li has just released a magical new single ‘Trying’ which showcases her creative instrumentation, floating vocals and whimsical lyrics. ‘Trying’ is infused with a psychedelic melancholia and an almost fairground sound washed through with delicate strings. Li says of the song: Writing this song was an exercise in vulnerability. …
Album Review: Tan Cologne – Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico
Tan Cologne‘s debut album ‘Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico’ is a thing of ethereal beauty. There’s something in the spaces between the echoes and the jangling guitars, the languid distant voices and the reverb-drenched waves of sound that evokes space and time: a mystical geography and the tyranny and joy of distance. …
Track: Aubergine – Lonely Peak
A good thing done well is worth celebrating, and Aubergine‘s laid back instrumentals evoke a sense of place – smoky dimly lit caverns in the very early hours of the morning, cheroots and stripy t-shirts. It is certainly a change of pace, but a very satisfying expression by a group of highly talented musicians. Aubergine …
Say Psych: Album Review: Sunflowers – Endless Voyage
Sunflowers return with their third LP Endless Voyage; a conceptual sci-fi record about the end of the world, the rise of the machine, doubt about one’s individuality and the acceptance of chaos. It has been recently released on Stolen Body Records, the second to be released with them after 2018’s Castle Spell. This is a …
Say Psych: EP Review: Purple Heart Parade – Desolation Angel
Manchester’s Purple Heart Parade recently released their third EP Desolation Angel through premiere post-rock ambassadors Club AC30. Following from last years lauded Lonestar EP, Desolation Angel takes the bands expansive and textured sound to new heights. Once again, the band recorded at Perry Vale Studios with Pat Collier (The Jesus and Mary Chain, X-Ray Spex) …
Say Psych: Premiere: Helicon – This Can Only Lead to Chaos
Glaswegian psychedelic heavyweights Helicon are release their second LP This Can Only Lead to Chaos this Friday via Fuzz Club Records and BSM is privileged to bring you the premiere. The album follows on from their 2017 self-titled debut and a recent three-track Zero Fucks EP, released in 2019. A 9-track effort, it sees the …
Track: Tan Cologne – Alien
Tan Cologne hugely impressed with their dream pop release ‘Cave Vaults on the Moon in New Mexico’ – a song that seemed to capture all the mystery and magic of their home in New Mexico. They have released a new single – ‘Alien’ – which perfectly captures the mysterious allure of this band with its …
Say Psych: Album Premiere: Las Cobras – Selva
Emerging out of the small Uruguayan city of Canelones, in 2017 a band named Las Cobras released their debut recordings, a nine track LP called Temporal – and instantly became a name on the tongues of those tapped into the trans-Atlantic psychedelic underground. A couple of years on and the duo comprised of Leandro Rebellato …
Say Psych: Album Review: Firefriend – Avalanche
Hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Firefriend are Julia Grassetti (bass and vocals), Caca Amaral (drums) and Yury Hermuche (guitar and vocals). They are part of the underground resistance and in their latest LP Avalanche, have created their magnum opus.; an aural documentation of the nihilistic storm that is part of living in the 21st Century. …