psych tracks
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 …
Psych Insight: Track: Milarepa by Hills, plus debut album reissue news
Hills are one of my favourite bands of recent times, a Swedish collective who only seem to emerge from time to time, but when they do they always seem to leave a big impression on me. Their last album, ‘Master Sleeps’ (their second), was originally released by in 2011 and re-pressed on vinyl by Rocket Recordings …
Track: Alabama punk/psych trio \\GT// release new single ’Something’s Wrong With My Mind’
Punk / Rock / Psychedelic, Birmingham, Alabama 3 piece \GT// stoke the fires of anticipation for the release of their debut album, ‘Beats Misplaced’, with lead single, ‘Something’s Wrong With My Mind’. Due for UK release on July 31, via Communicating Vessels & Rough Trade, “the eight track LP is a rock ’n’ roll thrill ride, …