Psych
Say Psych: Live Review: Under the Arches, London Fields Brewery, 05.03.2016
Following the highly successful Fuzz Club Festival last November, we are back at the London Fields Brewery for ‘Under the Arches’ – a new monthly event which brings together record labels to showcase the best from the global psych and underground rock and roll scene. Housed within two brickwork arches, the Light Arch plays host …
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 …
Psych Insight: Live, Henge, Electrowerkz, London, 26.2.16
As a band Henge are well named, a unit that is strangely archaic and yet solid; a band whose music batters through to your very soul. On the evidence of its self-titled debut album Henge is also a band that is pretty difficult to categorise being just about ‘post’ everything that you might throw at …
Say Psych: Live Review, Cavalier Song, Electrowerkz, London 26.2.16
Cavalier Song are a band that are new to me this year, but one that I really rate. The band’s debut album, Blezard (read the review here) is a stark and spacious record that has its moments of noise and chaos, but leaves you with the overall impression of dark tranquility. Seeing Cavalier Song for …
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 …
Say Psych: Playlist 2/2016
Here’s my second playlist of the year, which is shaping up to be yet another brilliant one musically with some great new releases and long overdue re-issues. Flemish Weave by Mugstar “Rarely after listening to an album do I just want to sit in silence for a moment to think about what I have …
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 …