Smote
Album Review: Smote –‘Songs From The Free House’: A striking return for the drone rock/ dark folk adventurer.
Daniel Foggin, landscape gardener, guitarist, psych folk expressionist and drone rock interpreter works relentlessly. His creative portal Smote is now five albums into its journey with the venerable Rocket Recordings, an expedition which only began in 2021 with the folk trance deep-dive of ‘Droomin’. Since then Smote music has intensified, from rustic rhythm-driven psychedelic ceremonials …
Say Psych: Live Review: Our Top 5 bands of Fuzz Club Festival, Eindhoven
The annual pilgrimage to Eindhoven is a foot, those into psych and its many sub genres are heading there from all over the world for the forth edition of Fuzz Club Festival. This years line up is packed with veritable treats, and a few new names, to cater to all tastes. Before we get into …
Say Psych: News: Fuzz Club announces first bands for 2025 Festival in Eindhoven
UK-based independent label Fuzz Club are today announcing the first wave of bands set to perform at Fuzz Club Festival 2025. Returning after a four-year hiatus this year, the two-day celebration of fuzz, reverb and drone will take place once again at the historic Effenaar venue in Eindhoven, Netherlands over 9 & 10 May 2025. …
Premiere: see the visual delights of Smote’s ‘Poleyn’
As their debut full-length on Rocket Recordings awaits release, Smote have shared the video for ‘Poleyn’, created by Rocket’s own John O’ Caroll. The track shares the album with ‘Drommon Pt.1’ and ‘Drommon Pt.2’, released as a limited tape/digital release earlier this year, as well as the previously released lead single ‘Hauberk’. Thematically focused with …
Album Review: Smote – Drommon
Newcastle has been a veritable hub for a wide spectrum of psych and noise, from the raw trio of Blóm to the relentless clamour of Pigs x7; the same city’s Smote offers a different, but similarly singular, vision of psych. Drommon comprises the previously released titular, two-parter, bookending new material ‘Hauberk’ and ‘Poleyn’; a more …
Say Psych: Interview: Meet The Label – The Weird Beard
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 …