Psych albums
Album Review: Causa Sui – Return To Sky
There’s only a few instrumental outfits these days that pack as big a sonic punch as Causa Sui. These four guys from Denmark have been making trippy, mind-altering rock and roll for a few years now, and every time out they up their musical game a bit. They go from psychedelic, acid-fried drone(Pewt’r Sessions 3) …
Album Review: Desert Mountain Tribe – Either That Or The Moon
It was some time ago when I had my first introduction to Desert Mountain Tribe, with the release of their self-titled EP back in 2014 and a night of snapped strings and sound issues to a smattering of people in Manchester’s Dry Bar. All that being said, the guys were complete professionals and persevered. It …
Say Psych: Album Review, Phantamonium by Hotel Wrecking City Traders
I first came across Hotel Wrecking City Traders last year with the release of the amazing Australian split 12″ with Hey Colossus on Wild Animal Records. While the Hey Colossus track was a great as you would expect from this ever improving band, the Hotel Wrecking City Traders track, ‘Droned and Disowned (Pt.2) was a …
Say Psych: Album Review, Supernormal 2015 Live Transmissions III by Blown Out
It’s not that long ago that I first became aware of Blown Out. I had been sent an email with a promo of last year’s ‘Jet Black Hallucinations’ album on it, and because it was the first release from Golden Mantra, the label run by Adam from Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs; I decided that …
Say Psych: Album Review How’s Your Favourite Dream by Wooden Indian Burial Ground
Wooden Indian Burial Ground first came to my attention earlier this year when I came across a video of the lead track from this album, ‘Burnout Beach‘. At the time I thought that if the track was in anyway representative of the album then it would be very good indeed and now I’ve heard it …
Album Review: Rangda – The Heretic’s Bargain
The Heretic’s Bargain is rasping and raw, like a head with tailing entrails, flying through a midsummer evening, on its way to effectuate mass infanticide. Rangda consists of Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance) and Chris Corsano (Bjork, Evan Parker), none of whom are strangers to exploring the psychedelic …
Album Review: Animal Collective – Painting With
Animal Collective can say that they have most assuredly created their own unique musical world. No one can even come close to reinterpreting their sound and their vibe. Maybe t-U-n-E-y-A-r-D-s to some extent, but not to the exuberant extremes that AC do. I think for many Merriweather Post Pavillion was the point at which this Maryland four-piece …
Say Psych: Album Review, Lay Llamas by Lay Llamas
The Lay Llamas have been on my radar for a while, a superb live performance at the Liverpool PsychFest in 2014, and a great album, ‘Ostro’, for Rocket Recordings the same year which made our ‘Essential’ list. What I wasn’t aware of what that this had not been the band’s first release, having brought out …
Say Psych: Album Review, Lamagaius by Lamagaia
This one-track 28 minute album was originally recorded in 2012, and has previously only seen a very limited cassette release the following year, Lamagaia itself was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2010. Three years later from that comes a self-released vinyl edition limited to 300 copies, and for the majority of us, for whom this …
Say Psych: Album Review, Magnetic Seasons by Mugstar
Normally when I review an album I sit down with it and really think about how it makes me feel, and generally just go with the flow. If I don’t like it, I don’t write about it…there’s enough cynicism in the world…right? When this new album from Mugstar popped into my in box I was …