Psych albums
Album Review: Matt Berry – The Small Hours
Matt Berry has is someone who has stealthily raised his reputation in the music industry in recent years without the wider world really noticing, slowly but surely increasing his audience size by word of mouth, putting out a new album every year since 2013 and playing rapturously received gigs. While The Small Hours hasn’t received …
Say Psych: Album Review, Hjärndimma by Centralstödet
Centralstödet is yet another band that is new to me, and yet another band from Sweden that has just blown me away as soon as I heard it. Hailing from Gothenburg it is a four-piece, comprising Ulrik Lindblom and Daniel Johansson (guitar), Joni Huttunen (bass), and Jonas Fredlund, (drums). I think its fair to say that, as much …
Say Psych: Album Review, Drakkar Nowhere.
One of the most instant tracks that I have heard this year has been Drakkar Nowhere’s ‘Higher Now’. I instantly put it on one of my playlists, and hoped that it would be representative of the album as a whole. That was nearly two months ago and the fear, of course, was that something that …
Say Psych: Playlist 18/2016
Back into the playlist groove after the summer, I’ve got round to doing some reviews…some ace albums linked below. Then there’s the usual mixture of the raw, the cooked, and the generally freaky. Enjoy! This Man by Nudity “In many ways this album is something of a hard sell. A collection of tracks from …
Say Psych: Album Review, Anachronicle by Big Mountain County
Big Mountain County began in Rome in 2012, formed initially by members of garage band The Boilers, building up a live reputation on the Italian punk and garage circuit. After self-releasing a single and touring throughout continental Europe the band brought out a well received first album, ‘Breaking Sound’ on Gas Vintage Records. This seemed to mark something …
Say Psych: Album review, Astragal by Broken DC
As summer turns to autumn there’s a certain melancholia in the air. It’s often a time for introspection, for remembering the (relative) warmth of the season gone by; while at the same time looking forward to the beauty of what is to come. The colours that arrive as leaves gradually lose their sense of purpose. …
Say Psych: Album Review, Is God’s Creation by Nudity
Sometimes, just sometimes, something comes along that stops you in your tracks. You put the thing on not knowing what to expect and BAM! it fucking slays you from the outset. That’s what happened when I first heard this double album from Nudity, a band that was totally new to me. Wait though, to my …
Album Review: Silver Apples : Clinging To A Dream
I have to be honest, besides a vague awareness of the name I wasn’t all that familiar with Silver Apples. I knew they were instrumental in pushing electronic music into the ears of folks that would go on to revolutionize the genre. Experimental electronic, Krautrock, motorik beats, and the whole German electronic music scene of …
Album Review: Various Artists – Another Splash of Colour: New Psychedelia in Britain 1980-1985
For regulars at Alice in Wonderland and the Bat Cave some of Londons more obscure 80`s nightclubs the Psychedelic scene in the mids 80`s was thriving, many bands featured on the Cherry Red box Another Splash Of Colour Psychedelia in Britian 1980-1985 frequented and played at these clubs, as were other small clubs all over …
Psych Insight: Album Review, Sabdatanmantra by Ramayana Soul
After what seemed like a slow start Japanese label Guruguru Brain really seems to have taken off this year with a string of releases from different parts of Asia. In the coming month or so I hope to be reviewing quite a few of them, culminating in seeing quite a few of the bands on …