krautrock
Say Psych: Album Review: Camera – Emotional Detox
They started as the so called “Krautrock Guerrilla” in 2012, six years later Berlins Camera are releasing their fourth full length LP, Emotional Detox. And whilst traditionally associated with the likes of NEU! and La Düsseldorf it is time now to allow Camera to break free of the krautrock tradition and accept that they are very much …
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: Album Review: Sherpa The Tiger – Great Vowel Shift
Sherpa The Tiger are a brand-new band hailing from the borderlands of Lviv, Ukraine. With an arsenal of decrepit Soviet synthesisers, the four-piece combine a love of minimalist ambient music and the kosmische grooves that came pumping out of Eastern Europe in the 60s/70s. There are two sides to Sherpa The Tiger, there are the …
Say Psych: Premiere: Sherpa The Tiger – Contre-jour
Sherpa The Tiger are a brand-new band hailing from Lviv, Ukraine who are here to bring you a disco-tainted krautrock sound that you never knew you needed, but will soon be unable to live without. BSM is pleased to bring you the premiere of their new single ‘Contre-jour’ from their forthcoming album Great Vowel Shift …
Say Psych: Album Review: Die Wilde Jagd – Uhrwald Orange
Die Wilde Jagd released their debut album three years ago when Philipp teamed up with producer Ralf Beck (Nalin & Kane, Unit 4). Beck remains an important influence on the new LP, co-producing and mixing the tracks (joined by Australian producer Kris Baha in the final mixing process), as well as utilising his collection of …
Album Review : Nicklas Sorensen’s ‘Solo 2’
Nicklas Sørensen most recently blasted dreamy, psychedelic swaths of guitar on Papir’s 2017 record V. Within that Danish three-piece psych rock outfit, Sørensen can go from post-rock stoicism to 60s fuzzed-out freak out in seconds flat. He’s erased those boundary lines that seemed to box in the “guitar hero”. Jazzy introspection, distorted wah wah, and progressive lines …
Say Psych: Album Review: Pretty Lightning – The Rhythm of Ooze
Rating: 8/10 Pretty Lightning are two friends, Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas, from Saarbrucken, Germany who formed the band after discovering a mutual love of 60s psychedelia, delta blues, krautrock and drone. When mixed together, the result is a healthy dose of raw, twisted psychedelic-blues utterly visceral sound which will undoubtedly appeal to fans of Wooden Shjips and …
Say Psych: Live Review: Liverpool Psych Festival – Saturday 23.09.2017
Day Two dawns for Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, and the bleary eyed and the fresh faced alike assemble early at the Baltic Triangle to begin to absorb what is certain to be an interesting day. Opening the District stage are Manchester’s Purple Heart Parade. Back to a five piece after recent personnel changes, the …
Say Psych: Live Review: Liverpool Psych Festival – Friday 22.09.2017
Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia has become known as the festival to be at for anyone interested in psychedelia, as well as being famed for touting some lesser known acts from complimenting genres. This years festival is set to be no exception, a feast for all the senses is in store. Thing’s kick off early …
Say Psych: Album Review: Juju – Our Mother Was A Plant
Rating: 9/10 JuJu is the project of Italian multi-instrumentalist Gioele Valenti who also works with Lay Llamas. Following on from his successful debut album in 2016, Valenti has teamed up with Fuzz Club Records to release second LP Our Mother Was A Plant on 22nd September, the same day he is billed to return to …