News: RSD 2020 Launches “The List”
One of the most exciting days leading up to the annual celebration of the record store is List Launch Day, and for RSD 2020, that time is now. Record Store Day has released the list of limited edition titles that will be part of the party on Saturday 18 April. It spans formats, genres and decades, and …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Pretty Lightning – Greyhound
German duo Pretty Lightning are today announcing their fourth long-player Jange Bowls, set for release on 20 March via London-based label Fuzz Club and BSM brings you the premiere of the first single, ‘Greyhound’. For over a decade, the duo comprising Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas have been busy dealing in swampy, fuzzed-out delta blues …
Say Psych: Video: Kill Your Boyfriend – Elizabeth (Danny Christ Remix)
Back in November, Treviso duo Kill Your Boyfriend released their latest single ‘Elizabeth’ before embarking on a tour of the UK. This week sees the release of a new subversive video to the B-Side, a remix by Danny Christ, the guitarist from Preoccupations (formerly Viet Cong). The band who formed in 2011 are an artistic …
Say Psych: News: Fuzz Club Announce First Bands for 2020 Festival
This August Fuzz Club will return to Eindhoven’s Effenaar venue for the third edition of their two-day festival in the Dutch city and are today announcing the first five names on the bill. This time around the label–a curator of some of the finest international fuzz, reverb and drone–will also be teaming up with London …
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 …
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. …
Say Psych: Video: Japanese Television – Bruno’s Nightmare
From the ashes of three London psych-rock bands rose Japanese Television; Al Brown, Alex Lawton, Ian Thorn and Tim David Jones – who formed with a shared vision of creating a modern psychedelic space-surf-soundscape. The band went into the studio with Kristian Bell (The Wytches) who artfully captured the raw spirit of their live …