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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 …
SAY PSYCH: ALBUM REVIEW: Paint – ‘Spiritual Vegas’
STEPPING outside his home musical turf, the Allah-Las for the second time, songwriter and guitarist Pedrum Siadatian is poised to exhibit the latest deeply coloured, impressionistic canvas he has produced under his Paint nom-de-plume, 2: Spiritual Vegas. Paint grew out of the four-track experimentation that any songwriter nurtures: a little side hustle where odder things …
SEE: the fine English psych whimsy of Jeremy Tuplin’s ‘Space Folk’
“I BELIEVE in magic / space magic … put on your unicorn jacket, covered in bat ships.”. So exhorts Somerset’s Jeremy Tuplin in the opening lines of his current single, “Space Magic”. So whoah: where are we, exactly, now … ground control? As with the lyrics, the video for the song (which you can watch …
Say Psych: News: Unloved announce ‘Strange Effect/Why Not’ 7″ for 20 June #LoveRecordStores
The Emmy-winning spy show Killing Eve has concluded its third season, which, just like both seasons before, featured an abundance of Unloved tracks including new singles ‘Strange Effect’ and ‘Why Not.’ The latter first appears against a backdrop of horror in the first episode of Killing Eve’s third season, when a young Dascha (the woman who trained Villanelle) commits her first kill. The …