Psych
See: Birthday Girl release new video for ‘I came here to eat’
Stockholm alt-rockers have released a new video for their track ‘I came here to eat’, which is out now via Sweet Cream Records. Taking something from the likes of Sonic Youth and Thee Oh Sees, Birthday Girl manage to drop some heavy psych in I came here to eat. Smothered in echo and reverb, the …
See: Temples release video for Hot Motion, plus new album and tour news
Temples have announced details of their new, third abum. Called Hot Motion its out via ATO Records on 27th September, and from it the band have released a new video for the albums title track. According to the band, Hot Motion is a song about ‘the tensions of desire, dreams and nightmares’, which it very …
See: The Vacant Lots with Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre) New Single ‘Bells’ from EXIT E.P.
Hot off the heels of their recent tour with The Dandy Warhols, The Vacant Lots are heading to Europe for headline shows and a couple support shows with Black Rebel Motorcycle Club in support of their new single “Bells.” Bells is a track from the forthcoming EXIT EP released soon on A Recordings. The EP …
Say Psych: Preview: Astral Festival, Bristol
Astral Festival (FKA Bristol Psych Fest), presented by Stolen Body Records, is back for it’s 6th year on 6th July 2019. Over the past six years the festival has grown from a 50 capacity room to a day long event over three of Bristol’s best venues, SWX, The Lanes and Rough Trade. After last year’s …
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 …