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Say Psych: Album Review: Holy Wave – Interloper
Holy Wave, originally from El Paso, Texas but now situated in Austin in order to pursue their own vision of Texas psych, they offer sweet melodies dyed in carefully constructed noise. The band have cemented themselves as a staple force in the international scene, with key performances at Levitation, Desert Daze, and nearly every psych gathering …
Say Psych: Premiere: Gunman & The Holy Ghost – Into The Setting Sun
Gunman & The Holy Ghost is Hákon Aðalsteinsson; a talented front man who is renowned for his versatile work, for example as part of the Berlin based band The Third Sound. After the Icelander struck camp in his home country and decided to built up a new life in Berlin, he needed more than one output …
See: Larkin Poe share video for ‘Holy Ghost Fire’
Larkin Poe raise lockdown spirits with the video for their uplifting new single ‘Holy Ghost Fire’. Larkin Poe, aka Atlanta-born multi-instrumentalist sister duo Rebecca and Megan Lovell, are following up their GRAMMY® Award-nominated fourth studio album, ‘Venom & Faith’ with new album ‘Self Made Man’ (out on 12 June via their own Tricki-Woo Records). To …
Track: Holy Hive – Broom
Ahead of the release of their album ‘Float Back To You’, Holy Hive – aka Homer Steinweiss, the Brooklyn based soul-funk drumming staple and sometime Daptone, Paul Spring, a young idealist folk singer traveling the country, and studio assistant named Joe Harrison oped in to join the band on bass, have released a new single …
Track: Holy Boy – Riders on the storm
Timing is everything, and yet it’s completely intangible, even transcendent. So when Holy Boy, aka Helene Alexandra Jæge, released her funeral-version of the Doors hit “Riders on the Storm”, both to give a taste of her upcoming album (to be released this August) and to announce herself among the storm of acts that descends on …
Say Psych: News: The Holydrug Couple announce new album Hyper Super Mega
Chilean duo The Holydrug Couple have announced details of their new album Hyper Super Mega for release on 14th September through Sacred Bones Records, as well as a November tour of the UK and Europe. It was 10 years ago, in a house on the outskirts of Santiago, Chile, that Ives Sepúlveda Minho and Manuel …
Say Psych: Track Review: Lay Llamas – Holy Worms
Italians Lay Llamas last month announced that they were back with a new LP, Thuban, to be released on 15th June on Rocket Recordings. This week they have revealed the video for the second single to be taken from the album, ‘Holy Worms’. The catchy track features all the elements you would want from a …
Album Review : Holy Wave’s ‘Adult Fear’
There’s a dusty, ‘road trip to nowhere good’ vibe to Holy Wave. They make the kind of grainy, 8mm-type of garage rock that feels like one of those gloomy yard sale finds. Searching through a damp cardboard box of LPs marked “.50 or best offer” you find various copies of Herb Albert & The Tiujana …
Track: Holy Boy – Elergy
Norwegian artist Helene Alexandra Jæger, trading under the Holy Boy Moniker, is releasing a new single ‘Elergy’, out via Native Habitat recordings, ahead of her debut album expected later in the year. It’s an ode to Los Angeles, where she now resides, saying “Coming from Bergen, Norway, I’d never seen a city like LA before. …
Classic Album: Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
On the release of Houses of the Holy in 1973, there simply wasn’t a bigger band on the planet than Led Zeppelin. Over their first four albums they had perfected blues rock, invented heavy metal, and then fused that folk influences, released a fourth album that was so anticipated that it required neither a title, …