Psych albums
Album Review: Unruly Girls – Epidemic
Two and a half years ago, Italy’s Unruly Girls unleashed their debut album ‘Cruel Tales’, reviewed by me in September 2017. This was a stunning debut: anarchic, arrogant and infused with a refreshing punk sensibility. The noise merchants are back with the album ‘Epidemic’ (named, it must be noted, perceptively before the current COVID-19 situation) …
Say Psych: Album Review: Mayflower Madame – Prepared for a Nightmare
Oslo’s Mayflower Madame are back with a new album, Prepared for a Nightmare, after a lengthy absence. Following a ten-date tour of the US in May 2018, Premonition was released as a four-track offering of apocalyptic love songs that attracted press attention globally. After a hectic touring schedule, the long-awaited release of their second LP …
Say Psych: Album Review: Die Wilde Jagd – Haut
Die Wilde Jagd is the music project of producer and songwriter Sebastian Lee Philipp. With the aid of his coproducer Ralf Beck and various guest musicians, he created a self-titled debut album in 2015 and a highly praised follow-up disc, Uhrwald Orange in 2018. The band’s third album Haut is scheduled for release on Bureau …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Warlocks – The Chain
Los Angeles’ The Warlocks are back with no less than their tenth studio album The Chain, which was released on Los Angeles based label Cleopatra Records on Friday. Describing it as “creamy, dreamy, glass breaking-style storytelling,” frontman Bobby Hecksher sets the scene for what is to come. The Chain was recorded by The Warlocks …
Say Psych: Album Review: Pretty Lightning – Jangle Bowls
German duo Pretty Lightning have just released their fourth LP Jangle Bowls via London-based label Fuzz Club Records. For over a decade, the duo comprising Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas have been busy dealing in swampy, fuzzed-out delta blues with a penchant for strung-out psychedelic drones and on their latest effort, picking up where 2017’s …
Say Psych: Album Review: OCH – II
OCH, Swedish for ‘and’, recently released their first LP courtesy of Rocket Recordings. This trio, of whom little is known other than a kinship to their label mates Flowers Must Die,have created a collection of beguiling soundscapes and audial epiphanies that can’t help but summon up the freewheeling ‘70s spirit, the small hours head space …
Say Psych: Album Review: Lastryko – Tętno Pulsu
Hailing from the Three city area, a coastal metropolis in the north of Poland comprising of the cities Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot; Lastryko can be placed somewhere between psychedelic, post rock and krautrock. Exuding fluid grooves with an experimental touch, Tętno Pulsu is a collection of selected pieces recorded during an improvised two-day studio session …
Say Psych: Album Review: Hayvanalar Alemi – Psychedelia in Times of Turbulance
Hayvanalar Alemi are an instrumental psychedelic folk-rock band founded in Ankara in 1999. Throughout the years, the band has developed its very own style, inspired by the Turkish innovative musical heritage, and also informed by the traditional and popular genres of the globe, blending together scales and rhythms of Asia, Africa, Middle East and South …
Say Psych: Album Review: Sunflowers – Endless Voyage
Sunflowers return with their third LP Endless Voyage; a conceptual sci-fi record about the end of the world, the rise of the machine, doubt about one’s individuality and the acceptance of chaos. It has been recently released on Stolen Body Records, the second to be released with them after 2018’s Castle Spell. This is a …
Say Psych: Album Premiere: Las Cobras – Selva
Emerging out of the small Uruguayan city of Canelones, in 2017 a band named Las Cobras released their debut recordings, a nine track LP called Temporal – and instantly became a name on the tongues of those tapped into the trans-Atlantic psychedelic underground. A couple of years on and the duo comprised of Leandro Rebellato …