Psych
Premiere: Moon Attendant release the indie psych of Hot Power
Taken from Brighton indie psych collective Moon Attendant’s forthcoming album ‘One Last Summer’, out 28th August via Big Potato Music, we’re delighted to premiere ‘Hot Power’ today right here on Backseat Mafia. The band includes some old friends making new music. Brother Blewett and Holton from Black Hearted Brother are on vocals/guitar and synth/production. Label …
Say Psych: Album Review: Nest Egg – Dislocation
Nest Egg were formed in 2011 and hail from Asheville, North Carolina. The band have honed their sound on the live circuit and new LP Dislocation to be released on The Acid Test Recordings and Little Cloud Records is the follow-up to 2018’s Nothingness Is Not A Curse, released on Fuzz Club. They specialise in …
Say Psych: Video: Mayflower Madame – Sacred Core
‘Sacred Core’ is the third single from Oslo’s Mayflower Madame‘s latest LP Prepared For A Nightmare. The band explain that it’s a song about getting lost, drifting away and trying to find the way back to your safe haven – and is guided by swirling, hypnotic guitars and an insistent, heavy beat. While some might call …
Say Psych: Track Review: Dimorphodons – Searching For Dimorphodons
Dimorphodons is a multi-instrumental artist, producer, guitar builder, eccentric and visionary who describes his sound as “the fantasy world I’d like to live in”. He is currently working on his debut album planned for 2021 but in the mean time has unleashed ‘Searching for Dimorphodons’, the title track of Dimorphodons’ forthcoming debut EP. It constitutes …
Say Psych: Video: J. Zunz – Four Women And Darkness
J. Zunz is the solo project from Lorena Quintanilla – one half of Mexican duo ‘Lorelle Meets The Obsolete’ and today they share ‘Four Women And Darkness’, the second single from the forthcoming second album Hibiscus set for release on 21 August. The video was first screened over the weekend as part of Supersonic’s ‘Sofasonic Festival’, as …
Say Psych: Track Review: Death Valley Girls – The Universe
Today Los Angeles dystopian punk/occult glam rockers Death Valley Girls announce their new album Under the Spell of Joy is set for release Oct 2nd via Suicide Squeeze Records and the band are sharing their new single from the record ‘The Universe’ now. Speaking about the track, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Bonnie Bloomgarden said “Under the Spell of Joy is a space-gospel record. We …
Say Psych: Video: Tau & the Drones of Praise – Seanóirí Naofa
Tau & the Drones of Praise have delivered a hypnotic psych montage of beauty with the video for their new single ‘Seanóirí Naofa’ which was released last month. A collage weaved together of past present and future shot in various locations and sacred sites throughout Ireland with recent tour footage in France too. “This work is a celebration of all …
SEE: El Goodo’s ‘The Grey Tower’ psychs like The Seeds
QUIETLY working to their own, slower calendar in the Vale of Neath since the 20th flipped to the 21st, Wales’s El Goodo offer up pebbles of psych-folk-country goodness for anyone who steps through their door. We should trust their hospitality. Take that name. Yes, of course it namechecks Big Star. How can we not be …
NEWS: ‘One-man Beatles’ Emitt Rhodes dies aged 70
IT HAS been reported from the States that the psych-pop singer-songwriter once dubbed ‘the one-man Beatles’, Emitt Rhodes, has died at the age of 70. Californian-born Emitt moved through a brace of teenage bands, The Palace Guard and The Merry-Go-Round, before striking out on his own after the latter outfit disbanded in 1969. He recorded …
Album Review: Zombi – 2020
With their first new album in 5 years Zomi’s new album, 2020 showcases their songwriting prowess that has pushed the duo of Steve Moore (synthesizers, guitars, bass) and A.E. Paterra (drums) to evolve throughout their storied, 20 year career. This is a slightly different Zombi then what we have previously seen. Which is understandable when you have been creating for as …