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Album Review: Night Beats – Who Sold My Generation
Night Beats have always put out music that sounded as if it had been locked away into a time capsule back in 1969 and had been recently unearthed for all to behold. Their new album, Who Sold My Generation, doesn’t change that formula. Instead, they’ve tweaked their strange trip to include some Philly soul leanings and …
New Music: Emporium – The Uninvited
Scottish indie poppers Emporium have been making music since 1998, when recording began on their first album A Fine Fine Line. Sporadic releases have appeared over the course of the intervening 18 years, and the bands new single ‘The Uninvited’, out on February 5th is taken from the bands forthcoming album ‘The Electric Emporium’. It …
Say Psych: Playlist 1/2016
Here’s the first playlist of the year. Mostly new stuff that I been turned on to, but a couple of oldies too. Hope you enjoy it. Wet Grave by Henge “It’s not an easy listen from this London-based four piece, anything worthwhile rarely is, but it is very rewarding. Here Henge have taken acid-psychedelic-noise-sludge-punk …
Album Review: Suede — Night Thoughts
Suede* is the band that many forget actually kickstarted (or possibly hotwired) Britpop. Night Thoughts is Suede’s seventh album and only the second since their welcomed reunion in 2010, a bit close on the heels of 2013’s Bloodsports. For fans who started to lose interest after Coming Up, this may well be the album to …
Track: Deep Sea Diver – Creatures of Comfort
Creatures of Comfort, the new single from former Shins guitarist Jeqssica Dobsons new band Deep Sea Diver, comes from their forthcoming album Secrets, out February 19th on the High Beam label. It has this rather lovely listlessness about it, these little synths flourishes and picked guitar chords contrasting the melancholy of the melody. It ebbs …
Album Review: Eleanor Friedberger – New View
“Oh Eleanor, it’s going to be alright. Things may seem down right now, but I promise things will get better. People come and people go out of our lives, but we will always have the memories of those people to put a smile on our face. Or, bring a tear to the eye. Regardless, you …
Album Review: The Besnard Lakes – A Coliseum Complex Museum
The Besnard Lakes sound like a cloudburst in the middle of an emotional breakdown. Absolute beauty in the midst of some psychic turmoil. Towering melody and cavernous harmonies ride on psychedelic riffs and proper rock and roll drum bashing. Ever since the very beginning back in 2003 the Montreal-based husband and wife team of Jace …
Track: Cullen Omori – Cinnamon
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Not many people know this, but Smith Westerns were an incredibly special band. They crafted delectable teenage gospel in a way that was almost purposefully harking back to their past but proud and boastful enough that it lived on its own. They were snotty Chicago kids encapsulating the hype machine of …
Say Psych: Album Review, Henge
In your fuckin’ face…that’s what this album is from the very first bar as the feedback from opener ‘TD’ pours fluidly from the speakers, the bass pulsates and the fuzzed up guitar kicks in. If that wasn’t enough to pin you back to the wall you are harangued by the sort of vocals which leave …
Soundtrack of our lives: Wayne Hussey
Wayne Hussey, lead singer of The Mission, ex-Sisters of Mercy and collaborator with many (Dead or Alive, Gary Numan, The Cure etc.) has written, sang, and played on a considerable number of tracks that would be included in many peoples essential playlists. But what about the tracks that influenced Wayne? What would you find him …