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Track: Crumb – Fall Down
With their self-released debut album Jinx only a couple of weeks away, Brooklyn’s Crumb have released a new track in the shape of Fall Down. It follows the release of Ghostride and Part III, and follows similar paths of being this stripped back woozy slice of psychedelic pop. Full of drop dead gorgeous synth chords …
Track: Crumb – Ghostride plus tour dates
If you’re in the mood this evening for a leisurely, almost lounge-esque track to ease you into the upcoming weekend, Brooklyn collaborators Crumb is exactly the easy, relaxed group of artists for that. Their single, “Ghostride”, is laid-back, dreamy number taken from their forthcoming album Jinx, scheduled for release June 14th. A sanguine piece from the quartet, the …
Album Review: Barrie – Happy to be Here
Barrie’s single “Tal Uno”, released last year, was for me one of the stand out singles of 2018 (along with Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Boys in the Better Land’). Their follow up singles, off the EP ‘Singles’ further enhanced my love of the band. Smooth clean jangly psych pop with the most elegant harmonies and the indelible. …
Track: Barrie – Geology
Ahead of thw release of te=geur debut album ‘Happy to be here’, out next Friday (May 3rd) via Winspear, Brooklyn five piece Barrie have released a new single ‘Geology’. Of the track, he band’s frontwoman Barrie Lindsay commented: “I wrote this song in 2015, a few months after I bought my first guitar. I was listening …
New Tracks: Barrie – Clovers/Darjeeling plus album and tour news
Barrie produced, for me, one of the stand out singles of 2018, Tal Uno – a perfect slice of pop heaven from the EP ‘Singles’. They have now announced a much anticipated album – ‘Happy to be Here’ due for release on 3 May 2019 as well as a tour that will take them across …
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 …
News: Flatbush Zombies announce European tour dates
Following their genre-transcending, future forward debut 3001: A Laced Odyssey, FLATBUSH ZOMBIES have returned to cement their position as hip-hop’s most exciting asset. The Brooklyn trio have announced a European headline tour throughout October 2018, tickets on sale here. Meechy Darko, Erik Arc Elliott and Zombie Juice prove themselves with every release; consciously separating themselves …
Say Psych: Album Review: A Place To Bury Strangers – Pinned
Pinned is the fifth studio offering from Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers who in their ten year history have garnered a reputation for releasing unique records and putting on mesmerising live performances. They have had to make some big decisions in recent years, they were in search of a new drummer who arrived in …
Say Psych: News: BOYTOY announce second LP and first track ‘Mary Anne’
Brooklyn quartet BOYTOY has announced that their second LP Night Leaf will arrive in the UK on 27th April, being released via Stolen Body Records. They have put out a taster in the form of single ‘Mary Anne’. Saara Untracht-Oakner and Glenn Michael Van Dyke formed BOYTOY in 2013, sharing a love of surfing, skating and rock & roll. They released …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Men – Drift
Brooklyn’s The Men are set to release their seventh LP Drift on 2nd March 2018 on Sacred Bones Records to coincide with their 10th anniversary. The band’s last album, Devil Music, was the sound of a band who had been through the motions before hitting reset and going back to the beginning and rediscovering themselves …