Psych
Say Psych: Album Review: Dreamweapon – Rites of Lunacy
Porto’s dreamweapon take their name from the 1990 Spacemen 3 live album ‘Dreamweapon: An Evening of Contemporary Sitar Music’, who themselves took inspiration from the work of minimalist drone – or ‘Dream Music’ – visionary La Monte Young and a 1965 multimedia piece titled ‘Rites of The Dreamweapon’ by original The Velvet Underground drummer Angus MacLise. Following …
Say Psych: Album Review: Japanese Television – EP III
Japanese Television don’t surf, but if they did, it would be on a swirling wave of reverb-drenched organ, garage-rock guitars, hypno-motorik bass and pounding, ritualistic drums. The band formed in 2018 through a shared love of fuzz boxes, Joe Meek and UFOs and together they invented “Space Surf”. Upon discovering it already existed, they reinvented …
Say Psych: Premiere: Singapore Sling – Sickin’ Street
Reykjavík maverick Henrik Björnsson is due to release Good Sick Fun, his 11th album under the Singapore Sling project, on 25 September via Fuzz Club Records and BSM brings you the premiere of the first track to be taken from it, ‘Sickin’ Street’ – an exercise in mechanical drum-machine, piercing tremolo-heavy noise and sinister vocal …
PREMIERE: Hear the wild, loose psych of Muzzle Tung’s new album ‘Gannet’ in full
I KNOW, I know. You’ve got an aural itch you just need to scratch, right? You want psych. But aah … that’s nearly hit the spot, but … OK, maybe not just psych. Loose and ragged, unafraid to let it all hang out; the edges fuzzing and bleeding. Hmmm. I’ve got just the thing, comin’ …
Track: Healthy Junkies share ‘Last Day In LA’ from upcoming album
HEALTHY JUNKIES’ new album Forever On The Road is out on September 25th. It’s a set of tunes that’s set to propel the band forward to the top of the pile: smashing down boundaries of genre in a way that only this group of anarchic artisans can, with a blend of horror movie soundscape, punk, grunge, reggae …
See: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets share video for Mr. Prism
THE AUSSIE psych machine that is the Psychedelic Porn Crumpets released their first single of 2020 earlier this month, “Mr. Prism”. It’s a familiar but refreshing mixture of the Porn Crumpet’s uproarious, fuzzy-guitar heavy choruses and ethereal lyricism, with added bouts of electronic reverie. The video for the track also arrived recently, created by frequent …
ALBUM REVIEW: Freak Heat Waves – ‘Zap The Planet’: a dive into trippy electronica
THE IRONY of the current situation isn’t lost on me. I’m sat here in the 35-degree heat, profusely sweating in the same way that Prince Andrew doesn’t, all while writing about the latest album from Freak Heat Waves. I mean, Freak Heat Waves!? The universe clearly has a cruel sense of humour. And so it’s with a head full of these fears about rising temperatures, the inevitable demise of the earth and other …
Say Psych: Track Review: The Nude Party – Cure Is You
The Nude Party are set to return with their second album Midnight Manor on 2 October via New West Records and have just unveiled lead single ‘Cure Is You’. The Nude Party formed while the members were students at North Carolina’s Appalachian State University. After honing their chops through incessant practice at their communal band house, they relocated to a property …
Meet: J. Zunz talks new album, influences and more
Lorelle The Obsolete‘s Lorena Quintanilla just released her second album as J. Zunz: Hibiscus. The record exhibits an even more electronic maelstrom of captivating, ethereal sound than previous projects. Lorena discusses this transition here, as well as the origins of Hibiscus, her influences, and songwriting in general. (Photography by Sofia Ruesga) Hi Lorena, I really …
SAY PSYCH: ALBUM REVIEW: Moon Duo – ‘Escape’: fuzz psych-meisters’ debut, expanded
TIME can really slip by. It’s ten whole years – yep, a decade – since Moon Duo span out of Wooden Shjips with that band’s Ripley Johnson teaming up with keyboardist Samae Yamada to forge a psych-side hustle. Hell, that means it’s almost nine years since I saw Wooden Shjips at End of the Road …