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Say Psych: Album Review: The Telescopes – As Light Return
Rating: 7/10 The Telescopes return with their ninth album, As Light Return released on German label Tapete Records on 7th July 2017 on vinyl, CD and digital formats. The brain child of Stephen Lawrie in 1987, the band have undergone many changes with Lawrie the only remaining constant. On this occasion he is joined by …
Say Psych: News: Bristol Psych Fest IV
Bristol Psych Fest have teamed up with Stolen Body Records to bring a spectacular fourth instalment to the Trinity Centre and The Crofters Rights on 7th and 8th July 2017. This years festival will be bigger and better, spread over two days and two venues. Commencing with a free warm up party on the Friday …
Say Psych: Live Review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & H. Hawkline – Albert Hall, Manchester, 14.06.2017
Australians King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have garnered an enviable reputation for their superb live performances and insanely catchy music which traverses several genres to ensure they have an ever increasing fan base. Having played Manchester on several occasions to ever increasing in size venues, tonight Now Wave and Strange Days have teamed up …
Say Psych: Video: The Cult of Free Love – Visions
The Cult of Free Love, a hard to define collaboration from North Wales are back with a new video for a track from their forthcoming album. Following on from the success of Love Revolution which was released on Wrong Way Records last August, ‘Visions’ is the first in a sequence of videos to come and …
Say Psych: News: The Warlocks announce European Tour
The Warlocks have become known as psychedelic legends in their own right, after having formed in Los Angeles in 1998. There have been many changes in personnel since then, with guitarist/singer Bobby Hecksher the only constant member. With six studio albums under their belt, they set out on a 22 date European tour spanning six …
Say Psych: News: Wrong Way Records announce 3 new releases
Independent label Wrong Way Records have announced three new releases in the form of limited edition singles from three aspiring acts loosely based within the psychedelic genre. London’s dirty fuzz outfit The Oscillation are no strangers having garnered a reputation for superior reverberated tones and it is with open arms a new single is welcomed. …
Say Psych: Album Review: Las Cobras – Temporal
Rating: 8/10 Psychedelia has always been in South America’s culture and history, ingrained since the 1960s with the politically charged tropicalia movement and things aren’t so different now. A great host of bands have rapidly become well known names in the circuit, such as Föllakzoid, Hurricane Heart Attacks and The Holydrug Couple. The latest addition …
Album Review : Moon Duo’s ‘Occult Architecture Vol. 2’
I think it’s safe to say that Moon Duo’s Ripley Johnson and Sanae Yamada have found their groove. Not that they didn’t have a groove over the last several albums they’ve released since 2009, but with the release earlier in the year of Occult Architecture Vol. 1 they seemed to have found that little extra spark. …
Classic Album: Considering the status of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 50 years later.
50 years ago popular music reached its absolute apex when Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the most perfect musical statement in the history of the eardrum was released. It instantly made every album released prior to May 1967 sound utterly juvenile, and every album released after it has been a shockingly poor attempt to …
Say Psych: Interview: Meet the Label – Blak Hand Records
Neo-Psychedelia has become the fastest growing musical trend, and the genre that everyone who wants to be associated with. With that in mind, it’s easy to forget that it is people who make all of this possible and get the music out into the public domain in the first place. Say Psych plans to address …