Psych
See: Zombi – No Damage
The American rock duo who go by the name Zombi will be releasing their first new album in 5 years next month via Relapse Records. With an ominous title of – 2020 the duo of Steve Moore (synthesizers, guitars, bass) and A.E. Paterra (drums) have shared videos in celebration over the last couple of months. Check out Breakthrough & Conquer …
ALBUM REVIEW: Leeches – ‘Easy’: big up the West Country stoner vibe
SPEAKING as a West Country lad myself, it comes as no surprise, with all the plaudits and freewheelin’ fertility surrounding the harder end of the Antipodean jam-psych scene – led forth into the multicoloured haze by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Pond – that the South West would, at some point, answer back …
Say Psych: Album Review: Bo Ningen – Sudden Fictions
Meaning ‘Stick Man’ in Japanese, Bo Ningen are a London-based four-piece alternative rock band. Though they come from Gunma, Tajimi, Nishinomiya, and Tokyo in Japan, they coalesced in London. Two met one another at a gig in 2006 and first formed Bo Ningen as a duo, later joined by the other two members. With three studio …
Say Psych: News: Japanese Television announce new EP III and share new single ‘Beecage’
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: Album Review: The Vacant Lots – Interzone
Interzone is the third full-length album by New York’s electro post-punk duo The Vacant Lots (Jared Artaud and Brian MacFadyen): a genre-blending synthesis of dance and psych made for secluded listeners and all night partygoers, meant for headphones and the club. It was released on Fuzz Club Records last week. Created with aid from Alan Vega’s Arp synthesier …
Premiere: The Total Rejection release new video for ‘Gravy’
We’ve already fallen pretty much head over heels for Garage / Psych rockers The Total Rejection, and their forthcoming album The Time Traveller’s 3rd Will & Testament’ (Raving Pop Blast! Records), which you can peruse at your leisure here, so we’re delighted to premiere the new video for the track ‘Gravy’, right here on Backseat Mafia. …
Track: Pinkshinyultrablast – Songs
Pinkshinyultrablast, Russia’s premiere shoegaze export, have shared their epic and ethereal new single ‘Songs’ out now via Club AC30 They comment “this one is kind of an oddball. I think when we recorded ‘Songs’ we weren’t really sure what to do with this 15-minute-long beast, or if we will ever get a chance to release it. …
Track: Honey Radar Cover The Monkees ‘Wind Up Man’
From the compilation Sing the Snow Away: The Chunklet years, which is out now and featuring all their released material on the Chunklet Industries label, Honey Radar have released their version of The Monkees ‘Wind Up’. Head honcho of the band, guitarist Jason Henn, explains “The Monkees were the first group I was obsessed with …
See: Zombi share new video for Earthscraper
Ahead of the release of their new album 2020, due out on July 17th via Relapse Records, instrumental duo Zombi have released a new video for the track Earthscraper. Of the release, Zombi drummer A.E. Paterra says “A heavy song, and an even heavier video by director Tony Balko. We’ve been excited to share this …
See: ‘The Sensible Gray Cells’ announce new 7″ single and share video
Featuring Captain Sensible and Paul Gray from the Damned!A limited edition 7″ (300 in Grey and 300 in Red) by The Sensible Gray Cells. Released on July 24th! Who, what and why are The Sensible Gray Cells? Captain :- Paul Gray and myself being garage psych aficionados would prefer to hear more of this kind of music …