psych tracks
Track: Acid Dad – 2Ci
NYC psych freaks Acid Dad have followed up 2016’s Let’s Plan A Robbery EP and last month’s Die Hard 7″ with their debut self titled album, which drops on March 9th via Greenway Records. From it, the band have released lead single 2Ci, and although granted its only the 10th January, I reckon it might …
Track: The Men – Maybe I’m Crazy
As they enter their tenth year, Brooklyn four-piece The Men have announced their new, seventh album Drift is due out on March 2nd via long time label Sacred Bones. The first track to be taken from the record, Maybe I’m Crazy, is available right now. Maybe I’m Crazy mixes up the psych and experimentalism with …
Track: The Telescopes – Silent Water
If you thought one album, As Light Return, was enough for one year from long serving noisy shoegaze favourites The Telescopes, up pops Stephen Lawrie and the gang with another, the six-track ‘Stone Tape’, out on November 20th via Rome label Yard Press. Taken from it is a ‘Silent Water’. It finds Lawrie not at …
Track: Birds – Most Ghost
Brooklyn psych-rockers BIRDS’ new single is featured on a 7″ split with Stuyedeyed, out this Friday (11/3) on Greenway Records. It comes just two months after the release of their debut LP, Everything All At Once, and features more of their fuzzed-out, psych-tinged sound. Almost ghostly in its delivery (surprisingly enough…) it’s a dark place, …
Track: The Wytches – Double World (Sludge Version), plus Winter tour dates
Out right now digitally via the ever brilliant Heavenly Recordings is a brand new track from doom surf/psych outfit The Wytches. Or more specifically, two versions of the same song. About the track, lead singer Kristian explains, “We recorded the track a few months ago but felt it was quite different to the direction we’re …
Track: Beaches – ‘Void’
Melbourne psych outfit Beaches release a new single ‘Void’, from a forthcoming double album Second of Spring in September. Australian psych is really setting the pace at the moment, and this is no exception. Driving guitars and a relentless beat that doesn’t let up, like Dandy Warhols in a wind-tunnel, echo-drenched vocals, and yes I think …
Say Psych: Track: The Goa Express – GOA/Kiss Me
The Goa Express are a five piece from Burnley who despite their young age are garnering fans and media interest country wide. They offer music drenched in feel good energy and with a number of key support slots and festival appearances, they announce their AA single ‘GOA’, to be released on 11th August 2017 on …
News: Spirit Valley sign to Fuzz Club Records, release new single TNNLVSSN
Amsterdam duo Spirit Valley have signed to one of our favourite labels, Fuzz Club Records, and announced an album ‘Negatives’ will be out in August. From it comes lead track ‘TNNLVSSN’ and this tribal sounding drumming quickly subsides (but never stops) leaveing blurry, fuzzed up, f*cked up psych sounds. Draped in echo, and accomapanied by …
Say Psych: EP: Phoenician Drive – Two Coins
Rating: 9/10 Phoenician Drive are the emerging talent from the Belgian scene, hailing from Brussels with their blend of oriental kraut suited perfectly to any psychedelic brain. They meet at the crossroads of Middle Eastern, North African and Mediterranean musical traditions and add elements of psychedelia to create a unique style all of their own. …
Say Psych: Track: Mayflower Madame – Drown
Mayflower Madame are a psychedelic orientated post-punk band from Oslo, Norway who peddle a dark, brooding sound which blends well with some of the finest sounds of the time. Comprised of Trond Fagernes (vocals/guitar), Håvard Haga (guitar), Petter Gudim Marberg (bass) and Ola Kyrkjeeide (drums), they formed formed in the dark winter of 2010 and …