Psych
Album Review: The Brian Jonestown Massacre are back with a jangling psychedelic storm in the brilliant ‘Fire Doesn’t Grow on Trees’.
Apparently the first The Brian Jonestown Massacre album in three years has distilled ten tracks from more than 60 recordings made over the years during the COVID lockdowns in singer/songwriter/guitarist Anton Newcombe’s Berlin recording studios. And the result is concentrated goodness, recalling some of Newton’s best material from over the decades. With less experimental sonic …
Premiere: The rollicking Hillsborough are ‘Comin’ Back For You’ with a foot stomping sonic whirlwind and launch date.
We are very pleased to premiere the new single ‘Comin’ Back For You’ from meanjin/Brisbane outfit Hillsborough, and it’s just the right medicine to blow those mid-winter shivers away (for our antipodean readers) or to celebrate the blinding sun (for northerners). There is a satisfying swagger, a sort of alt country bluesy pace with a …
Premiere: London band Volleyball release the dreamy psychedelic pop of Kitua Fortune; watch the video exclusively here first
Describing themselves by saying “We create psych music that sits in a dreamy haze between catchy and explorative. Six singles have set a strong sonic territory on which to build their sound, with two mini albums set for release this year, the band are keen to innovate at the forefront of the UK psych scene,” …
Live Review: The Flaming Lips / Heartless Bastards – 02 Kentish Town Forum, London 02.06.22
With the never ending enthusiasm to create fresh and weird new sounds Wayne Coyne finally made it to play at the Kentish Town Forum complete with Giant Robots, blow-up rainbows and mechanical birds! The Flaming Lips are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City. The band have recorded several albums and …
Premiere: Sunshine Coast’s Dr Mann unveil psychedelic video for ‘Ciggies’: a smoky, hazy joyful fugue.
We are very pleased to premiere the video for that paean to desire and yearning, ‘Cigges’, from Sunshine Coast’s Dr Mann. We said of the single that it is a smooth and enticing slice of trippy, psychedelic indie pop blended with a hint of Americana that is imbued with a laid back and dreamy unfiltered …
Live Review: Beach House / White Flowers – 02 Academy Brixton, London 26.05.2022
It started as a project with 10 Dollars in their pocket and Beach House were formed and created a genre that has been widely imitated. The band played a sold out Brixton Academy with a catalogue of songs and Victoria Legrand’s mesmerising voice. Beach House are a neo-psychedelic shoegaze band from Baltimore, Maryland in 2004 …
Album Review: Rubber Oh – Strange Craft
During lockdown, Sam Grant – part of the godlike (or more appropriately, hellish), Sabbathian riff-age of Pigs x7, and also studio engineer at Newcastle’s Blank Studios – gave birth to Rubber Oh firstly as a pure and unfettered personal creative outlet between recording the myriad bands at his studio. Rubber Oh’s celestial jouissance was conjured in …
News: La Luz share new single ‘Endless Afternoon’ and announce UK tour dates
Hazy psychedelia received a further rejuvenation last year with the release of the myriad, uber-melodic, luscious, harmony-laden self-titled La Luz album. The band’s fourth studio album received vast amounts of praise from both fans and critics alike; hot on it’s heels, La Luz have released ‘Endless Afternoon’, which will be released physically later in the …
LIVE REVIEW: TEKE::TEKE/islandman – Manchester, 08.05.2022
Two exceptional, unmissable psych exports play Manchester’s YES
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Gunman & The Holy Ghost – Stockholm City
Gunman & The Holy Ghost are back with a brand new video and single, ‘Stockholm City’ and BSM is honoured to bring you the premiere. Gunman & The Holy Ghost, is the project of Icelandic musician Hákon Aðalsteinsson. Hákon, who is now based in Berlin has formerly played in the Icelandic band Singapore Sling, and …