Say Psych: Premiere: Ouzo Bazooka – Falling
Ouzo Bazooka release a new video and announce their Turkish tour today and BSM is pleased to bring you the premiere of ‘Falling’. The video portrays a quest for unattainable love and was shot in Tokyo by Sherry Zheng and Kirk Wolf; this colourless tale is suffused with fondness and tenderness. The track is taken …
Say Psych: Premiere: Rev Rev Rev – Clutching The Blade
Of all the bands to emerge out of the European shoegaze movement of the last decade, Italian four-piece Rev Rev Rev have been the most formidable and commanding; their reverberating walls of fuzz drifting into crushing noise-rock territory at times. With a penchant for the dark, heavy and noisy, it was clearly only a matter …
Say Psych: Album Review: The 39 Clocks – Next Dimension Transfer
The 39 Clocks are one of the most magnificent bands ever to have emerged from Germany being considered one of the nation’s best bands of the 1980s by German pop boffin Diedrich Diederichsen. The legendary duo from Hanover broke every rule in the music business, without exception and above all, with attitude. The very appearance of The Clocks …
Say Psych: Album Review: Fumaça Preta – Pepas
Fumaça Preta are back with their long awaited third album, Pepas which has been released on Bristol’s Stolen Body Records. They bring together elements of tropicalia, psychedelics, fuzz funk, musique concrete, acid house, radiophonic electronics and numerous African, Brazilian and Latin rhythms. The band started as a studio experiment when Alex Figueira, a Portuguese-Venezuelan producer …
Say Psych: News: Fuzz Club Announce First Wave of Bands for this Year’s Eindhoven Festival
Last year the London-based independent label Fuzz Club hosted a two-day festival in the Dutch city of Eindhoven which saw people travel from over 35 different countries to immerse themselves in a communal celebration of all things fuzz, reverb and drone. The label have been busy working on round two and are now sharing the …
Say Psych: EP Review: Damo Suzuki & Minami Deutsch – Live At Roadburn Festival
At the 2018 edition of Roadburn Festival – a congregation of all things obscure, heavy and experimental in Tilburg, the Netherlands – two generations of Japanese Krautrock genius’ took to the stage for a live collaboration that was just as hypnotic as it was inevitable. Those artists were Tokyo’s Minami Deutsch and the legendary ex-Can lead Damo Suzuki. With Minami …
Say Psych: News: New Candys Announce Worldwide ‘Bleeding Magenta’ Tour
Venice, Italy based New Candys announce their 2019 European/USA Tour. Their 2018 USA debut tour included a live performance on KEXP and shows in New York, down the West Coast and Mexico, resulting in a solid an growing fanbase thanks to their intense and hypnotic live shows. This was preceded by their fourth European and …
Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Fuzz Club Session
For over a decade Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers have been dealing in pure sonic destruction. Famously lauded as the loudest band in NYC, their thunderous noise-rock has seen them pick up a cult following and shatter many unsuspecting eardrums across the globe. With no release or live show like the last, APTBS have continually twisted their malevolent sonic …
Say Psych: Live Review: Déjà Vega, The Castle Hotel, Manchester 16.02.2019
Déjà Vega are a band much loved here at BSM, and their rising is being closely followed. It was with absolute joy that we saw this show sell out a while ago and one that was well deserved. The trio are rapidly becoming a band who need no introduction thanks to increasing airplay on BBC …
Say Psych: News: Manchester Psych Fest announce first bands for 2019 line up
Critically acclaimed Australian rocker Courtney Barnett and psych rock outfit Temples are among the first wave of acts announced for the seventh edition of Manchester Psych Fest on 30 August 2019. The festival will also bring London post-punkers Goat Girl back to Manchester, along with much-loved lo-fi duo The Lovely Eggs, fuzzy outfit The Cult …