Psych
Album Review: House and Land – Across the Field
It’s always this way for me, with music like this. Everything about it evokes the country; but not the country seen from far away of slow rolling slopes, soft meadows, trees whose green is bright and joyful seen from above and outside. Not this country. This is the country up close. The grass is stone-ridden …
Album Review: Psychedelic Porn Crumpets – And Now For The Whatchamacallit
Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets new album, And Now For The Whatchamacallit, puts them on a pedestal with their fellow countrymen King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard (I figured I wouldn’t get through the review without mentioning them, so let’s get it out there early) shining a light on antipodean psych music through, as well as …
News: The Dandy Warhols announce 25th Anniversary Tour Downunder
Legendary if not slightly wild and mercurial, psych-pop funsters, The Dandy Warhols, have announced a tour of Australia to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Live, the Dandies can always be relied on to produce wild, exuberant shows and they have an extraordinarily good back catalog to explore, with gems such as Bohemian Like You, Every Day …
See: Wand release new video for Thin Air, announce European tour dates.
Taken from their recently released Laughing Matters album which came out in April via Drag City, Wand have released new visuals for the track Thin Air. The notoriously assiduous band, who’ve release an album a year for the last four years and have toured all over the world between times, have also announced new European …
Say Psych: EP Review: Desert Sands – The Ascent
Desert Sands is the project of musician Mark Walker and last week he released his debut EP The Ascent on A Recordings. Walker started writing and recording the music of Desert Sands whilst drumming in bands in London, all the while working on playing the other band members’ instruments himself. Wanting to experiment with a …
Say Psych: Interview: Reverends
Reverends released their second LP on Little Cloud Records on Friday and so we had a chat with Danny from the band to find out more about them. Q – Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and the band? What do people in the UK need to know about you? A …
Say Psych: Premiere: Spindrift – Songs from the Ancient Age
Here at BSM we’ve been big fans of Spindrift for some time, so it really is an honour to bring you the premiere of their new album Songs from the Ancient Age, which is to be released on Little Cloud Records next month. Songs from the Ancient Age covers the bands move from East to …
Say Psych: Album Review: Joe Ghatt – Banana Sludge
Australian label Third Eye Stimuli Records have this week ventured across the waters to release the debut LP from New Zealander Joe Ghatt, Banana Sludge. Originally from Nelson on South Island but now residing in Auckland, Ghatt has been performing and collaborating for the last few years with Kiwi psyhc rockers Arthur Ahbez and Kelvin …
Say Psych: News: Thee Oh Sees Announce Re-Issue of Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion
Thee Oh Sees have this week shared previously unavailable HD video of the entire Thee Hounds Of Foggy Notion Film. The reissue of Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion will be out 24 May on Castle Face Records. John Dwyer also did an exclusive interview with All Music and the band have recently announced a run of Fall North American tour dates. “Thee …
Say Psych: Track Review: Is Bliss – ‘All I See Is You’
Portsmouth based psych aficionados Is Bliss are pleased to announce the release of their highly anticipated debut album Strange Communication, released 7 June via Club AC30. Having received critical acclaim for their first two EP’s; ‘Velvet Dreams’ and the follow-up ‘The Honeycomb Explosion’, the south coast trio have been busy in the studio and have …