Psych Insight
Say Psych, Live, The Heads, Liverpool PsychFest, 26.09.15
Until very recently I thought that I had missed out on seeing The Heads live. Like many I had not discovered the band while they were active, only hearing them for the first time a few years ago. When I did it was a real point of revelation to me, and I can actually remember the …
Psych Insight: Live, Kandodo5, Liverpool PsychFest, 26.09.15
Kandodo3 is a project founded by Simon Price, along with fellow Heads Wayne Maskell and Hugo Morgan. Considerably less raw and brusque than their former band, Kandodo3 is more about expansive soundscapes and aural topology that the full on sonic assault that marked The Heads oeuvre. Having heard the k2o album, and especially the live …
Say Psych: Live, Chicos De Nazca, Liverpool PsychFest, 25.09.15
Third Chilean band of the day on the BYM Records vs Sacred Bones Furnace stage and a third approach to psychedelic music. Drawing considerably from the Seattle grunge scene, Spacemen 3 and Madchester music of the late eighties and nineties, Chicos De Nazca, a band that includes members of Föllakzoid, La Hell Gang and Delta …
Say Psych: Live, The Ganjas, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
Go through The Ganjas back catalogue and you could be forgiven for thinking that there is the sound of more than more than one band at work. With an eclectic background of releases stretching back nearly fifteen years. Another amazing band from Chile’s BYM Records, The Ganjas are firmly located in the South american milieu, …
Say Psych: Live, Dengue Fever, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
I once spent a happy few weeks touring round New England in the depths of winter. The year was 2008, and Barak and Hillary were battling it out for the Democratic nomination. On the car stereo more often than not for that holiday was Dengue Fever’s Venus on Earth, one of a clutch of CDs …
Say Psych: Live, Lucern Raze, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
The Swedish PNKSLM label made a big impression on me at last year’s Liverpool PsychFest, with a number of acts wowing audiences and Sudakistan in particular causing quite a stir. Lucerne Raze is the moniker of PNKSLM founder Luke Reilly whose debut album, Stockholm One, came out to some critical acclaim earlier this year. Combining …
Say Psych: Live, Vuelveteloca, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
Part of the Sacred Bones vs BYM stage that is occupying most of the night on the Furnace Stage, Vuelveteloca are one of a clutch of amazing Chilean bands who have come to the fore through BYM Records. Along with the likes of The Holydrug Couple (who unfortunately had to pull out of this year’s …
Say Psych: Live, Destruction Unit, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
I dare you to play a Destruction Unit album quietly. 2013’s effort, ‘Deep Trip’ was the sort of full on assault that leaves you pinned to the back wall screaming for more; and it sounds like the band’s new Sacred Bones album, ‘Negative Feedback Resistor’ might just have upped the game even further This is …
Say Psych: Live Review, Dead Sea Apes, Liverpool PsychFest, 26.09.15
Dead Sea Apes are a favourite band of mine who have released a series of ever developing albums on the Cardinal Fuzz label, the latest of which ‘Spectral Domain’ has apparently been flying out of the Cardinal’s lair. The opening track ‘Universal Interrogator’ has, in my view, already become a cornerstone of their live set, and …
Say Psych: Live, Pinkshinyultrablast, Liverpool PsychFest, 25/09/15
St Peterburg’s Pinkshinyultrablast have been causing quite a stir amongst shoegaze fans, and beyond, over the last year or so. Taking their name from an album by the relatively obscure American shoegaze project Astrobrite, the band instantly reveal how much they are embedded into the genre. This could be seen both positively and negatively, something …