Flowers Must Die
Say Psych: Album Review: Flowers Must Die – Där Bloomor Dör
Flowers Must Die have released their fifth album, Där Bloomor Dör, is all about life and death, birth and rebirth. The double album whose title translates as Where Flowers Die, marks the end of both the record label rev/vega rec. who released the band’s first three albums and the first phase of the band’s career, …
Say Psych: Live Review: Rocket 20 – Day One 09.03.2018
Rocket Recordings turn 20 this year, and to celebrate they have teamed up with London based promoters Baba Yaga’s Hut and DHP to host a three day musical spectacular at The Garage. Tonight’s opening night and there is a buzz in the air as the queue forms outside the venue early doors. With wristbands collected …
Say Psych: News: Rocket Recordings Twenty announce day split
Rocket Recordings are putting on a special event at The Garage, London in connection with DHP and Baba Yaga’s Hut to celebrate their 20th Anniversary. The label showcase will feature the finest on their roster, with the day split being confirmed this week. The highlights include: Friday 9th March – Josefin Ӧhm + The Liberation, …
See: Flowers Must Die release video for ‘After Gong’
This new video for ‘After Gong’ is the second release from the forthcoming Flowers Must Die album ‘Kompost’, due to be released on 28th April via Rocket Recordings. I’m sure we can all agree it’s a fitting tribute for a band to honour the memory of a fallen friend by dedicating a song to them. …
Say Psych: Live, 2016 Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia
It is doubtful, even in the reified levels of psych music fans, that Keita Ise and Njål Clementsen are two names that easily trip off the tongue. Yet trip is exactly what these two guys sent me on at the latest instalment of the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, now in its fifth year, held …
Say Psych: Playlist 19/2016
Reviewing a couple of Swedish-related albums over the last week (Drakkar Nowhere and Centralstödet) reminded me of how many great bands have come from that country in the past. Here are fifteen that I thought of off the top of my head, with apologies to the many more great ones that I could have included. Enjoy! …
Say Psych: Playlist 15/2016
A mixture of new releases and sounds that have been out a while, but are new to me. I continue to be astounded by just how much good music is out there. Check it out and enjoy! Higher Now by Drakkar Nowhere When I first heard the debut, eponymously titled, album from the Phenomenal …
Say Psych: Playlist 12/2016
One of the events I most look forward to each year is the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia. For me it provides a terrific opportunity to catch up with some of my favourite bands and check out ones that I’d never come across before. Now in its fifth year, and having just announced the full …
Say Psych: Meet, Flowers Must Die
It is almost a standard opening paragraph about how strong the Swedish ‘psych’ music scene is at the moment, but when you have a list of bands that includes Hills, Goat, Les Big Byrd, The Janitors, Yuri Gagarin, and numerous groups on labels such as PNKSLM it is not something that can really be ignored. …