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Album Review: Wild Meadows – Wild Meadows
The debut album from Melbourne’s Wild Meadows is, quite simply put, a promise delivered. Last year we enthusiastically reviewed their debut single ‘Feel the Noise’ and observed it was a ‘classic shoegaze anthem redolent with swirling vocals, waves of sparkling guitar and gob-smacking choruses grander than the Simpson Desert’. The self titled album – available …
Track: Brooders – Lie
Leeds psych-grunge three piece Brooders have shared the first track from their upcoming 7″ release in the form of ‘Lie’. The bands Adam Bairstow says of the track “Lie has been a work in progress for a long time, it’s a culmination of the stresses and pressures that come with love, loss and paranoia all …
Say Psych: Live Review: The Black Delta Movement, Mister Strange, Blanketman @ Night & Day, Manchester – 22.02.2018
Manchester’s Night & Day Café plays host to Hull band The Black Delta Movement, who with a new line up and an album release imminent are one of Britain’s hotly tipped prospects for 2018. First on the line up is a band who are only a few months old, the oddly named Blanketman are a …
Say Psych: Album Review: Mamuthones – Fear On The Corner
Mamuthones emerged from the Italian occult psychedelic movement and now in the wake of the release of their album Fear on the Corner on Rocket Recordings the band find themselves undergoing a metamorphosis from the mystical and ceremonial realms toward a direct connection with the everyday, the personal and the political. This vibrant reinvention also …
Say Psych: Track Exclusive: Hey Bulldog – Al Lupo
Manchester’s blues enthused garage rockers Hey Bulldog today announce new single ‘Al Lupo’, to be released through Doing it to Death Records and BSM is proud to present you with the exclusive first online listen. On return from the bands’ performances in Italy last summer, the song came from the very return jam back in …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Men – Drift
Brooklyn’s The Men are set to release their seventh LP Drift on 2nd March 2018 on Sacred Bones Records to coincide with their 10th anniversary. The band’s last album, Devil Music, was the sound of a band who had been through the motions before hitting reset and going back to the beginning and rediscovering themselves …
Say Psych: Track: GRDNS – Night Dance
GRDNS have today released ‘Night Dance’, taken from their forthcoming debut EP Dance To The Radio. The Bradford quartet take their influence from Tame Impala and Arctic Monkeys, blending to create their take on neo-psychedelia. Frontman Jacob Lyons describes their sound as a “tantric tale of a quiet night in with a supernatural poetic cosmic …
Say Psych: Album Review: Black Lizard – Celebration of a New Dawn
Finnish garage-rockers Black Lizard formed back in 2008 and have been busy leading the pack in the ever expanding and all inspiring Scandinavian underground with a relentless gig schedule and sequence of releases. The band is comprised of Paltsa-Kai Salama (vocals, guitar), Joni Seppanen (guitar), Lauri Lyttinen (bass) and Onni Nieminen (drums, percussion). This Friday sees the …
News: Desertfest London line-up, plus day splits now available
DESERTFEST LONDON have announced their day splits and put individual day tickets on sale, which means you can finally start planning your Desertfest weekend. FRIDAY sees KOKO back in the Desertfest fold and, as the largest venue of the day, it plays host to our retro rocking headliners Graveyard, making their long awaited UK return. Speaking of returns, they’ll be …
Track: Mellow Gang – Temps, plus UK tour dates
Paych-pop quartet Mellow Gang have followed up their debut Play EP with a new single, Temps. On the track, vocalist Harriet Joseph says “We’ve actually tried to steer away from writing on personal relationships before” she explains, “but with ‘Temps’ for the first time it was a subject too relevant and intoxicating to discard with …