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Say Psych: News: Stonefield Announce New Album & 37 Date Tour
Australian, psych-rock luminaries Stonefield have announced their new album, BENT (out June 14 via Flightless Records). Produced by Joe Walkerand Stu Mackenzie of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, the album was recorded in-between tours, in just five days. Written largely on the road, the songs on BENT are filled with reference and reflection – the kind that comes from months spent far from home, living on …
Say Psych: Album Review: DJINN – DJINN
Neither inherently good nor evil, the DJINN have been heralded in Arab culture since the Pre-Islamic period, located somewhere on a spiritual plane between humanity and the realm of deities. A mysterious force, their influence – essential between angel and demon – has subsequently extended to mythos, religious belief and folklore far and wide, from …
Say Psych: Album Review: Flamingods – Levitation
Flamingods are a four-piece, multi-instrumental, multi-cultural band who originally met and formed in Bahrain & now call London home. The band was founded by Kamal Rasool and now consists of Rasool, Sam Rowe, Charles Prest & Karthik Poduval. The group puts a focus on exploration and experimentation, often taking influence from different cultures around the world by …
Track: BEAK> – Life Goes On
Inspired apparently by a recent trip to Mexico City for a festival, Life Goes On is the new track from BEAK> taken from what we are told is ‘a forthcoming EP’. Evidently the band were rudely awoken by the screams of a young girl, which turned out to be a recording used by scrap-collecting carts …
Say Psych: Album Review: Vert:X – Death to False Motorik
After the release of From Now to Now in 2017, Vert:X took a brief hiatus only to return in 2018 with a new line-up. Mainstay Neil Whitehead teamed up with Mat Handley of Pulselovers on electronics and Dave Millsop of XOND on guitar, thus ushering in a return to the noisier sound that Neil had …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Gluts – Dengue Fever Hypnotic Trip
Milan’s fast-rising noise-punks The Gluts are back with their ferocious third LP Dengue Fever Hypnotic Trip released recently on London’s Fuzz Club Records and produced bu Bob de Wit (Gnod, A Place To Bury Strangers) the album is their most challenging but determined work yet. Inspired by bassist Claudia Cesana’s recent encounter with both dengue fever …
Track: L’Epee – Dreams
Although ‘Dreams’ is technically a debut single, there’s experienced hands at work with psych supergroup L’Epee, aka Emmanuelle Seigner (Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle), Anton Newcome (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) and Lional + Marie Limiñana (The Limiñanas). It’s forge in this 60’s alt rock feel, all stabby guitars and harking back to an era (a classic one …
Say Psych: Interview & Exclusive Album Stream: Centrum – För Meditation
There is definitely something in the air in Scandinavia that makes for a constant stream of fresh psychedelic talent, this week ahead of the release of their debut LP För Meditation, we caught up with members of Centrum to find out more about them and what we can expect from the album. We are also fortunate …
Say Psych: Album Review: The Janitors – 15 Years of Fuzz and Folköl
15 years ago, a night of heavy drinking resulted in the formation of The Janitors – a creative project that has been the centre of founding members Jonas and Henrik’s lives ever since. Over that time five drummers, eight percussionists and three bass players have passed through The Janitors grinder. This has ultimately resulted in …
Say Psych: News: Fuzz Club announce more bands for FCE2019
With an already enviable line up announced last month, Fuzz Club today announced five new additions to the bill for the Fuzz Club Eindhoven 2019 festival. They reveal that psych-poppers Froth, feral post-punk-outfit Snapped Ankles, Athens-based garage band Acid Baby Jesus, psych-rockers and Anton Newcombe collaborators Les Big Byrd as well as the London-based, genre-bending experimentalists Teeth Of The Sea. With …