Psych
Say Psych: Live, The Underground Youth, Liverpool PsychFest 25.09.15
Backseat Mafia favourites The Underground Youth made the short trip from Manchester to get things underway on the Camp stage at this year’s Liverpool PsychFest. The post-punk psychedelic band, who at times sound like a mid-era Depeche Mode (and I mean that in a good way), delivered a set that was heavy on drama, a dark and …
Track: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – Trapdoor
You’ll know if you read Backseat Mafia at all regularly (and why wouldn’t you?) that we love the seven piece Melbourne psych jugganaut King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Their latest album, Paper Mâché Dream Balloon, is due out on November 13th via ATO Records and from it comes a new track, Trapdoor. It’s got …
Album Review: Kurt Vile – b’lieve i’m goin down
Kurt Vile comes off as a bit of a mystery at first. You listen to the guy as he mumbles and shrugs his way through a song, surrounded by some really great music. You wonder is this guy for real? You listen some more and little details, shaded nuances, and sly phrases begin to make …
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 …
See: Pinkshinyultrablash release video for kiddy pool dream, plus tour date news
Russian shoegaze outfit, Pinkshinyultrablast, keen to follow up the success of their debut album, “Everything Else Matters” ,release yet more bliss laden dream-pop on the world with latest single “Kiddy Pool Dreams”. For the video, the band have taken a fairly original approach and recorded peoples reactions, good and bad, to hearing the single through headphones… …
Album Review: The Underground Youth – ‘Haunted’
The Underground Youth return with yet another vinyl masterpiece, their latest triumph, in the shape of ‘Haunted’. Such is the buzz, for those in the know, around The Underground Youth – that the Fuzz Club Records deluxe vinyl edition of 100, sold out immediately on the day the pre-order was announced, one of which plays before me as …
Say Psych: Album Review – Take A Lover by Early Mammal
If you like dirty low down psychedelic blues rock then I would suggest that you are going to love this third album by Early Mammal, on the ever reliable Riot Season Records. Early Mammal seem to have adopted that sort of no holds barred psychedelic blues rock aesthetic that at the same time puts a …
Say Psych: Album Review, Frid by Hills
Hills are one of my favourite bands, and the 2011 album ‘Master Sleeps’ is one of my most played. I love the coming together of dance rhythms with drone and a healthy dose of reverb, a heady mixture that I find myself lost in again and again. However, on first playing the new album ‘Frid’ …
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 …