psych tracks
Track: Promised Land Sound – Push and Pull (All the Time)
Ahead of the release of their sophomore album, For Use and Delight, Nashville’s Promised Land Sound give some indication of what we can expect with the rustic psych-rock/folk of Push and Pull (All the Time). It opens with these woozy chords, before it dances along, full of harmonies and the edgy yearn of frontman Joe …
Track: The Hanging Stars – The House on the Hill
Featuring members of The See See and Dan Michelson and the Coastguards, London quintet The Hanging Stars are a collective as much as a band, and have brought their own brand of rootsy, swampy psychedelia to bear on their debut album, tentatively titled Over a Silvery Lake. From it comes a new song, ‘The House …
Say Psych: New Music – Highly Deadly Black Tarantula by Teeth of the Sea
Teeth of the Sea are, for me, one of the most innovative and exciting bands around. They are band whose live performances can have me both up on my feel dancing, and can move me to tears. The band’s output is in turn dramatic and expansive, yet can also be intimate and gentle. To me …
Track: The High Learys – Letters to Alice
There’s a fresh blast of warm wind coming in from the west coast of Australia to melt the polar ice caps forming around Sydney Harbour (still recovering from the recent lightning visit of Backseat Mafia’s esteemed editor-in-chief). It’s name is The High Learys, and never has there been a more beautiful sound to leaven the …
Psych Insight: EP Review – BEAK><KAEB
When watching the London-based art rock collective, Rude Mechanicals, perform at Kent’s Homespun festival earlier this month, a friend of mine observed that all of the band’s five members appeared to be various manifestations of Brian Eno’s split personalities. There was Roxy Eno, with long, bleached hair blasting his way through a saxophone solo; Dr. Eno, transcribing …
Track: Demob Happy – Wash It Down
Demob Happy’s frontman Matt Marcantonio says “apathy has been encouraged” in the current music market, but thankfully his band sounds anything but indifferent on blazing new track Wash It Down. This single is taken from the Brighton quartet’s eagerly awaited debut album, due out later this year, and follows the well-deserved hype surrounding previous single …
Track: TAU – ‘Wirikuta’ EP
TAU is the collective brainchild of Dubliner, Shaun Mulrooney. Shaun is perhaps best known for his involvement with the Dead Skeletons and as the “Invisible Man” with Camera. TAU’s ‘Medicine Music’ was envisioned during a Mulrooney sojourn in Mexico with the Wixárikas, an ancient shamanic tribe whose culture and mythology is immersed in peyote lore. This …
EP: John J Presley – White Ink
Following on from his highly regarded singles Honeybee and Left, bluesman John J Presley is back with his debut EP, White Ink. Recorded in one eight hours straight session at Toe Rag Studios with Liam Watson (The White Stripes, The Kills, Tame Impala) whilst on a rare break from tour. “Recording at that hallowed space …
Track: The Vryll Society – Deep Blue Skies
When Alan Wills, the former Shack drummer and Deltasonic label boss, was tragically killed in a cycling accident in May last year, it seemed that his label, founded initially as a way of getting The Coral’s music released, would be no more. So the fact that The Vryll Society are due to release their debut …
Track: The Earlies – Abandon, plus live shows
It doesn’t seem that long since The Earlies released their debut album, These Were the Earlies, an album that fizzled with this indie neo-psych that drew admirers far and wide. This despite the band having a transatlantic split, with JM Lapham and Brandon Carr residing in Texas, whole Christian Madden and Giles Hatton are the …