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Album Review: J. Zunz – Hibiscus
J.Zunz, the alias of Lorelle Meets The Obsolete‘s Lorena Quintanilla, released her debut album Silente in 2017, which melded fuzzy-or erstwhile intricate- guitars with textural synths. Since then, Lorelle Meets The Obsolete put out the highly praised De Facto in 2019, with it’s superb collision of swirling electronic manipulation and the duo’s guitar frenzies. As …
News: Goat’s Commune gets special ‘Silver Edition’ vinyl
After the Swedish psychedelia influenced group’s first album World Music was given a ‘Sunburst’ Psych Limited Edition vinyl, their second album Commune has been given similarly worthy treatment. The new edition, originally released on Bandcamp Friday (August 7th) as part of the ‘No Fee’ day to support artists, sees the album given new and exclusive …
SEE: the Suicide chop-up of $hit & $hine’s ‘Hillbilly Moonshine’ – album in October
WHEN the going gets tough … You know the rest. A summer that’s bust more than a few consciousnesses has proved the right conditions for Austin, Texas’s Craig Clouse, who records fractured drone-psych with a dancefloor edge as $hit & $hine, to lay down deep frazzled psych groove, which we can lose ourselves in come …
Track: Pigs x7’s ‘Hell’s Teeth’ receives J.Zunz remix
THE typically fervid instrumentation of the Pigs x7 track “Hell’s Teeth”, which featured on their rapturously received 2020 album Viscerals, has been given a reworking by fellow Rocket Recordings artist J.Zunz. The throbbing guitar lines and bombastic percussion, not to mention the stirring “Let’s Rock” yell (as an ode to the history of metal bands), …
Say Psych: Album Review: Autotelia – I
Autotelia, as originally coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, describes a process by which someone has a purpose in, rather than outside of themselves. Those who are autotelic depend less on external rewards for their satisfaction, being driven instead simply by purpose or curiosity. Such was the genesis of a new project put together by The …
Say Psych: Video: J. Zunz – Four Women And Darkness
J. Zunz is the solo project from Lorena Quintanilla – one half of Mexican duo ‘Lorelle Meets The Obsolete’ and today they share ‘Four Women And Darkness’, the second single from the forthcoming second album Hibiscus set for release on 21 August. The video was first screened over the weekend as part of Supersonic’s ‘Sofasonic Festival’, as …
Say Psych: Premiere: Autotelia – Floating Island Of The Gods
Autotelia, as originally coined by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, describes a process by which someone has a purpose in, rather than outside of themselves. Those who are autotelic depend less on external rewards for their satisfaction, being driven instead simply by purpose or curiosity. Such was the genesis of a new project put together by The …
Say Psych: Feature: Italians Do Psych Better, Part Three
I’ve been involved in the world of psychedelia for years now, in many capacities, and certain things start to stick and draw you ever deeper; like Alice and the infamous rabbit hole. One of the things I’ve noticed and indeed gone down said hole with, is the insane quality of psychedelia emerging from Italy, in …
Say Psych: Album Review: Kooba Tercu – Proto Tekno
Arriving via a triangulation of Athens, Crete and London, yet existing at a psychic intersection between the ruins of crumbling infrastructure and an intimidating future dystopia Kooba Tercu have seen fit to take arms as only they see fit. This week they unleash their latest offering Proto Tekno on the world, via Rocket Recordings. Led …
Say Psych: Feature: Italians Do Psych Better, part one
I’ve been involved in the world of psychedelia for years now, in many capacities, and certain things start to stick and draw you ever deeper; like Alice and the infamous rabbit hole. One of the things I’ve noticed and indeed gone down said hole with, is the insane quality of psychedelia emerging from Italy, in …