Psych
News: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announce Film and live album
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are excited to announce Chunky Shrapnel, a feature-length motion picture that follows King Gizzard’s adrenaline-inducing onstage performances from the perspective of the band. The film is accompanied by a double LP featuring the music from the film, which was recorded throughout the band’s 2019 European tour. The film will premiere on Friday, April 17 via an online …
Say Psych: Album Review: Die Wilde Jagd – Haut
Die Wilde Jagd is the music project of producer and songwriter Sebastian Lee Philipp. With the aid of his coproducer Ralf Beck and various guest musicians, he created a self-titled debut album in 2015 and a highly praised follow-up disc, Uhrwald Orange in 2018. The band’s third album Haut is scheduled for release on Bureau …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Warlocks – The Chain
Los Angeles’ The Warlocks are back with no less than their tenth studio album The Chain, which was released on Los Angeles based label Cleopatra Records on Friday. Describing it as “creamy, dreamy, glass breaking-style storytelling,” frontman Bobby Hecksher sets the scene for what is to come. The Chain was recorded by The Warlocks …
Say Psych: Track: Blanketman – Taking You With Me
Blanketman are a new band who sweat and toil in a city called Manchester. Over the last year or two the band have been spearheading a burgeoning scene locally and have gigged extensively throughout the town performing their original brand of restless-legged post-punk, served with a sharper, more sardonic pop edge than many of their more po-faced peers. So sharp in …
Say Psych: News: Mexicans Sei Still Announce Debut LP on Fuzz Club & Share Video for ‘El Camino’
Though their taut, unrelenting Krautrock inspired music might scream of West Germany, Sei Still are, in fact, a five-piece hailing from Mexico City. Their machine-like sonic experimentations emerging not out acid-fuelled jam sessions in some underground communal space tucked away in this or that German city but, instead, three friends taking a random trip to …
Say Psych: Track: Psychic Ills – Never Learn Not To Love/Cease to Exist
Recently the music world mourned the loss of Psychic Ills founder, front man and songwriter Tres Warren. At the time of his death, Warren was overflowing with creativity, actively writing new songs, and excited about the next phase of the band. He was preparing to go into the studio alongside longtime collaborator Elizabeth Hart and their band mates to record …
ALBUM REVIEW: THE LOVELY EGGS – I AM MORON
It’s hard to say that Lancaster’s The Lovely Eggs have a cult following when you count the fans the duo can boast; Iggy Pop is a fan, as is Huw Stephens, Steve Lamacq and a number of other luminaries within the music press. It’s just that their output is that which should by all rights …
Track: Gateway Drugs – Wait (Medication)
Gateway Drugs are back with the follow up to their 2015 LP ‘Magick Spells (Dine Alone) with a new record ‘PSA’. From it they’ve shared a new track Wait (Medication), which the band say is about “Falling in love with madness. When sustenance is stolen and your vice becomes your friend, your lover. Romanticization of …
Say Psych: Album Review: Pretty Lightning – Jangle Bowls
German duo Pretty Lightning have just released their fourth LP Jangle Bowls via London-based label Fuzz Club Records. For over a decade, the duo comprising Christian Berghoff and Sebastian Haas have been busy dealing in swampy, fuzzed-out delta blues with a penchant for strung-out psychedelic drones and on their latest effort, picking up where 2017’s …
Say Psych: Premiere: Hayvanlar Alemi – Psychedelia in Times of Turbulence
Hayvanlar Alemi is an instrumental psychedelic folk-rock band founded in Ankara in 1999. Throughout the years, the band has developed a style of its own, inspired by the innovative musical heritage of Turkey but also informed by the traditional and popular styles of the globe, blending together scales and rhythms of Asia, Africa, Middle East and …