Psych
Premiere: Kim Salmon’s Smoked Salmon call out ‘Hey Hey Narcissus’ – a sinuous, slinky smooth delight.
Is this song about me? We are inordinately proud to premiere the new single ‘Hey, Hey Narcissus’ from the living legend Kim Salmon‘s new project, Smoked Salmon, and it’s a blast of fresh air as vocal duties are wrested from Salmon by Claire Birchall. It’s a sinuous, slinky smooth track that’s as enchanting as the …
News: Duo Cari Cari sign to Australian label Civilians and announce album ‘One More Trip Around The Sun’ with the ethereal title track unveiled as a taster.
The new single ‘One More Trip Around The Sun’ from Australian duo Cari Cari is an ethereal, hypnotic sonic kaleidoscope that floats in the ether like a delicate silken veil. There is a clattering percussive bed over which dreamy vocals and instruments create a psychedelic hue that is mesmerising and luscious. The song deals with …
Track: Rising Star Morgan Saint Reflects on Youth and Tragedy in 15 Forever
Morgan Saint’s 15 Forever Is a Tribute to Friendship, Youth, and Unimaginable Loss
Album Review: Re-release of nineties underground band Sex Industrie’s album ‘Sex’ll Sell Anything’ reveals a thrilling gem
In a year when one of Sydney’s more iconic underground eighties band, The Crystal Set, is reforming with a series of gigs with fellow jingle jangle exponents Ups & Downs (see news piece here) as well as a series of headlining gigs later in the year, it is fitting that a rather obscure related band …
Track: Andy Bell signals new album with hazy cover “I’m in Love”
Andy Bell’s cover of The Passions’ 1981 post-punk gem, I’m in Love with a German Film Star—retitled i’m in love…—is a lush reimagining that doesn’t stray far from the original but adds its own hypnotic texture. Featuring whispered, ethereal vocals from Dot Allison and layered guitars courtesy of Michael Rother (Neu!), the track envelops you …
Track: ‘Shout It To The Wind’ – The Lovetones return with a delicious, atmospheric intensity
The ever dependable and utterly iconic The Lovetones are back to delicately entice our ears with their signatory jingle jangle auditory salve. Their new single ‘Shout It To The Wind’ positively shimmers like the light on a lake in mid-summer. What better way to launch 2025 is there than with this slow burning anthem where …
Say Psych: News: Sister9 Recordings release 20th Anniversary compilation CD set
2024 marks the 20th Anniversary of Sister 9 Recordings—and to celebrate, the label’s final release of the year is a LTD Edition 2 CD Set spanning two decades since the first release back in 2004, is out today! The label, which was initially called ‘Parlour 9’, was set up by lo-fi/post-punk/scuzzrock band, DOLIUM, with the …
Say Psych: Video Premiere: Bloodjoy Remixes (Part I)
Manchester’s “one man noise machine/psych assassin” Rhys Bloodjoy, has just unleashed an EP called ‘Bloodjoy Remixes (Part One)’, starring four artists who have previously released albums on his record label, Sister 9 Recordings. The EP features remixed versions of songs by psych-dream-gazers, Frankie Teardrop Dead, Italian darkwave/post-punks, Kill Your Boyfriend, psychedelic masters, JuJu and Bloodjoy’s …
Live Review & Gallery: Industrial Beats-Jamie xx at Sydney’s Carriageworks 8.12.2024
Jamie xx Bridges the Industrial and the Ethereal in His Carriageworks Set
Say Psych: Track Review: Pray for Mojo – Bonnacon
Warrington’s finest, Pray for Mojo, are back with a new single, ‘Bonnacon’, out now on Rare Vitamin Records. ‘Bonnacon’, is self recorded in their own studio and mixed by Ste Cole at What? Studios who worked with them on their EP Rickety Bridges. The track introduces a progressive and fast paced side to the band …