Psych
News: Spiritualized return with a new album and a tour for ’22; hear ‘Always Together With You’
ONE of the best bands you’ll ever commune with live should you get the chance, Spiritualized, are set to return in 2022 with a new album, Everything Was Beautiful, due for release in February on Bella Union. It’ll be their first in nearly four years (since 2018’s And Nothing Hurt). They’ve also dropped a first …
News: She Drew The Gun announces February 2022 Panopticon tour dates
On the back of the release of her much lauded album ‘Behave Myself’, singer-songwriter Louisa Roach aka She Drew The Gun has announced a new UK tour, named the Panopticon tour, that will take place in February next year. It will be a chance for her fans to see her notoriously powerful and affecting live …
See: The enigmatic ANIQO drops the crisp darkwave of ‘Fear’ in time for the Hallowe’en shadows
ANIQO is the enticing, mist-wreathed musical incarnation of Berlin singer and poet Anita Goß, who’s slinking through the shadows in this most supernatural of months with the crisp darkwave of “Fear”, the video for which we’ve got just down there. Born and brought up in the former East German Baltic port city of Wismar but drawn …
See: Breton psych explorers Djinn drop visuals for ‘The Void’
HARD psych explorers Djiin, the four-piece from Rennes in Brittany who are about to drop their third album, Meandering Soul, from which they’ve unveiled the slowburn, progressive jam of “The Void” – you can watch it below. The Rennais stoners have laid down six tracks for Meandering Soul, their first long-playing outing since 2019’s The …
Say Psych: Live Review: Girls In Synthesis @ Rough Trade, Nottingham 23.10.2021
Tonight at Rough Trade, non profit organisation Rock Against Racism Nottingham are hosting London’s Girls In Synthesis. Formed in 2016, they have acquired somewhat of a cult following, and with good reason. If you’re looking for a sound that’s somewhere between something you know really well, and something you’ve never heard before, you don’t have …
Live Review: Snapped Ankles / Mermaid Chunky – Crookes Social Club, Sheffield 23.10.2021, plus gallery
Words: PeteMo / Pictures: Nick Lowe Hailing from the basement & underground party scene of the east end of London, Snapped Ankles materialised like a strange & mythical apparition in front of an eager and discerning capacity crowd in the steel city, on a dank Saturday night. The venue, a working man’s club, dimly lit and heated to …
Track: Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets release thunderous single ‘Lava Lamp Pisco’ and announce extensive Australian and European tour dates
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have made themselves known in their vivid, exuberant careers as one of Perth’s finest exports and most inventive bands. With just enough breathing space after their fourth album ‘SHYGA! The Sunlight Mount’, they have returned with their new single ‘Lava Lamp Pisco’, a euphoric explosion of fuzz-laden guitars and intoxicating polyphony that …
Say Psych: Live Review: Snapped Ankles @ Gorilla, Manchester 13.10.2021
Snapped Ankles were formed in 2011 out of one of east London’s warehouse communities and have continued their unimagined rise ever since. They defy convention at every turn from wearing pieces of forest to making their own instruments and with the success of their latest LP Forest of your Problems they have embarked on a …
See: The Kundalini Genie unveil explosive video for the thunderous shoegaze track ‘Half In, Half Out’, title track for the new album due out in November.
Glaswegian band The Kundalini Genie‘s new single ‘Half In, Half Out’, title track off their forthcoming album out via Little Cloud Records (US) and Space Ranch Records (Europe) , is an explosive dose of shoegaze trippy excess: utterly satisfying and thoroughly cathartic. Ride’s Mark Gardener mastering the mix through his OX4 Studio provides a gold …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Gluts – Ungrateful Heart
Out now on Fuzz Club Records, Ungrateful Heart is the fourth album from Milan-based group The Gluts. Whilst their previous releases traded in an explosive psychedelic noise-rock, Ungrateful Heart sees the Italian four-piece hone in a more post-punk-indebted sound. Although no less abrasive and confrontational in its utilising of ear-piercing feedback and hard-hitting riffs, the …